As a fan of Oblivion and Skyrim, I have been so excited to start playing after I bought this game a month ago. The game has fulfilled it's promise and money's worth for me with lots of fun things to do in the huge world of Tamriel. I have been looking for something like this for a long time.
However, since 2 weeks I am being plagued with the process of ingame non-responsiveness that eventually leads to a disconnect to login-screen. The frequency varies from 5 hours of no problems to a crash every hour (especially during weekends). The feedback says either "An unknown error has occurred" or "Error 201" or "exceeded msg limit". I can login and play again after waiting 2-4 minutes.
This isn't the first thread about this and I know mods as well as victims are offering many possible solutions. I have tried them all - Forwarded all the ports for this game, made exceptions in firewall and anti-virus (AVG), run as administrator, shut down firewall and anti-virus completely, no addons, repaired the game. Note that I've spent about 10 hours researching and trying out solutions for this. My PC and internet speed are both very fast so that's not it. I conclude from other threads that there isn't a real working solution for this random connectivity issue.
Every forced disconnect breaks immersion so badly and is so plain annoying that I sometimes don't even bother to re-login. Connectivity issues are worse when I'm in a group. I've ruined several group dungeons just because I couldn't get back to my group (Example: In Wayrest Sewers several walls were closed for me, that were open for my group. I could not physically reach them for the final boss after reconnecting from a crash).
Today I've crashed 3 times in 3 hours just doing solo content and I just can't bring up the patience anymore. I'm afraid to start a group dungeon because I know there's about a 50/50 chance I get dropped and can't finish the content with my group. While group dungeons are one of my main goals for getting better at the game because it's the most challenging content.....
I'll keep checking in on this forum and will give game another shot when I feel it might be fixed.
Edited by musclygeezer on September 20, 2014 2:42PM