I'm having disconnections today, and takes ages to go back in. Even the Launcher can become slow to show images & buttons.

I'm getting an immediate FPS drop when going inside any building or into a town, even if no other players are around, then it fluctuates wildly. Load screens can take several minutes. I've been bumped off the game three or four times this morning and afternoon, and one time it seemed to do a roll back. I'd completed a quest in an instanced area and left, picked up the next quest and moved on. When I logged in I was back in the instanced quest that I'd already done and turned in and left.

The issues started for me after Update 17 hit.

*Sigh* I do wish that tech support would take things like these more serious and not either put a bot to answer it (I remember back in the day when they promised that the support team weren't bots. Yet 1 quick message to the support team proved that it was since I stated very specificly I had done the things that the guide told me to do, yet it wasn't resolved) and on my next ticket it said the same thing even though I said.

I used to run this at ultra high at around 80+ fps at worst while levelling. 60+ in the city and 40-50 in cyrodiil. After the patch my FPS jumps like there's no *** tomorrow between 67 by just turning a bit to the left or walking 20 meters to 90 a second later.
In cities it's even worse with an average of 50 at best. Worse at 30. Even when LEAVING the city I get huge blows to my fps that makes it constantly jump between around 40 to 70 for a solid 5 seconds.

I have never had an addon in my game. Yes I tried repairing it. Yes I checked my drivers AND I even reinstalled my whole game. I did everything on that list and got no boost in FPS. The only thing I could do is switch to high put everything but shadows to max and set my view distance to 70 and BOOM. I got my old fps back.

Please Zenimax. If you read this...Make the next patch an optimization patch. Since you guys clearly didn't optimize this patch.

I tried all their troubleshooting tips, shut off all addons, nothing made a difference.

I am also having PERFORMANCE issue since the last update. Please, help me to fix it! Lowering my settings make the game impossible to play. It looks terribly ugly and my configuration was working so good before the update! And I have the requirements to play this game. This is so frustrating....

Lylith wrote: »

all the above and then some.

needs sorted, badly.

update.

now i can't even get to the character screen.

'booted from server.'

what the actual ***, zos?

ZOS_BillE wrote: »

If you are having issues with high ping or latency in game, you should try the troubleshooting listed in this thread.

If you are having issues with performance, you can go through the troubleshooting in this help article.

If none of the above help with your issue, please contact customer support for more assistance.

@ZOS_BillE do you think you could update those tech support pages to not have black font on dark background? I know it's easy to just highlight the text to show, but the first impression is 4 dots with no text.

Ok, my computer is now running a solid 60 degrees hotter playing this game over WoW, GW2, and FF. What's going on here? It wasn't like this before. I've backed up settings as far as I can without the game looking like garbage. It's pulling an average of 86% GPU usage. I had a thermal shutdown a bit ago because it went over 200 degrees. It's been running hotter since the patch before last but this last one really screwed things up now. This is a MSI gaming laptop, it's not junk.

My understanding is this game is supposed to be light on the GPU but mine fluctuates between 75% to 94% while playing. Also when playing other games my core temp averages 135 degrees but playing ESO now it averages 198 degrees and I've had several thermal shutdowns as it went over 200 degrees. My latency was around 90 when I started playing 7 months ago but now it's around 150 with constant spikes over 400 and often it says 999+. And I live two hours from the NA servers. I'm getting bumped off constantly now, those massive lag spikes, and my FPS which held pretty steady at 60 will now drop to 8-45 for no reason that I can see. If I go in a town, FPS drops, no other players around, FPS still drops, go in my houses, FPS drops, go in a building in a town, FPS drops even more.

Normally my ping in under 140 and my fps between 40 and 60. But since maintenance today it's been 150 or over with random spikes and my fps is halved, especially in cities and areas with other players. The eye strain from the terrible fps is not good for those of us with sensory hypersensitivities and are inclined to get migraines.

In my house it's not so bad. Too bad i can't do everything in my house.

Adjusted my video settings. No change.

Not my internet. Everything else is streaming/connecting fine. It's just ESO.

I have guild events scheduled for this week and am worried I won't be about to participate because of this terrible fps, and that after a week of not doing much besides leveling up a baby sorc because my NBs were broke from Update 17 bugs. If it weren't for the fact they seemed to have fixed the bugs that broke my NBs, I would have canceled my sub today. It renews on the 23th so I have a couple more day to change my mind about this.

Reading what everyone is saying I understand that seems to be a problem with the new patch however I see everyone still running trials and youtube videos with the game running smoothly or at least playable but for me all of this is impossible, I average 25 frames for the most, maybe going in the middle of nowhere I get to 50-60 frames sometimes, but in a trial I can't pass 15 frames and getting as low as 2-5 fps, in vhof 4th boss for example on the burn phases I need to wait for this to be over so I can get back in the game.
Like I said in another thread, I did several benchmarks on other games like assassin's creed origins, Shadow of War, Nier Automata and others and most of them getting an average of 70fps.
I disabled all addons, I tried modifying some ini files, I made a custom 3d setting with Nvidia just for ESO, I put the game in the lowest resolution possible (640x480, Runescape mode) and nothing seems to work.