Discussion - Very slow zoning on Test (1 Viewer)

[secret_wombat]

Hi All,

Anyone else encountering real slow zoning times on Test ?

When my team enters a new zone it can take very long (10+ mins) to zone. I've restarted my laptop and tried with MQNext and / or AV not running. I'm mainly trying TBL and RoS zones.

I seem to have better luck if I zone one toon at a time but I'm having to reboot and restart everything as sometimes my laptop hits 100% CPU and really slows down.

 

[Mugly]

Only zone I am having problems with is ME but other zones seem to be ok

 

[Szazor]

yeah -ive been getting the same. Not all the time though.

 

[secret_wombat]

Annoying but EQ has taught me well on how to be bloody-minded in the face of issues

 

[Oakfrost]

I'm experiencing the same issue on Test. It happened after I ran the patch yesterday. Not sure of a fix yet. Running Win 11.

 

[cuinhell666]

Only zone I am having problems with is ME but other zones seem to be ok

I have noticed that memory utilization in ME has shot through the roof since the EQ patch.

 

[Sic]

sounds related to the dx11 incredibly high memory usage

might be worth trying to zone 1 at a time

 

[cuinhell666]

DBG may be overly aggressive on caching. About 34 minutes after leaving ME, the memory utilization drops considerably down to near normal levels.

 

[Wyntyr]

Not sure it's connected but I can't seem to load in all 6 toons at once using the profiles, I have to load 1 toon at a time.

 

[Oakfrost]

Update from my perspective. Running Restless Assault on Test. I loaded my toons and started the grind. Left to use the washroom and take care of elf on the shelf because everyone is asleep, and I drew the short straw. My SK loaded but everyone else was stuck in limbo. After over 2o minutes I came back, and they all were stuck loading. no progress. I was able to get them all to load by activating (clicking on) each perspective window...

 

[DragonOfMetal]

Noticed this and can add my experience. I have only zoned in the new expansion, seems worst going into the Pal'Lomen mission. Zoning into that mission will create a bug where it looks like my group has disbanded, and won't let me reinvite until I disband one of them. It seems worst with the full 6 box, and seems only just a little slow with just one character. Another thing to note is that while they are loading any webpages I load will take longer to load, any other online games will stutter and when I was streaming twitch it crashed, watching youtube it just stops buffering.

 

[woobs]

 

[secret_wombat]

Thanks @woobs , I've switched off my laptop's nvidia gpu (RTX 3050 TI) so that EQ now uses the onboard Ryzen 5 gpu. Zoning times are much better and I can actually use port the entire group and not have to wait 10+ mins for zoning to complete.

update.... the ryzen gpu runs at 100% when running 6 eq clients so performance is bareable but could be better. Will have a play with tweaking graphic settings

 

[Szazor]

I tried to do some raiding today- but it was impossible. I gave up.
Trying to zone anymore than 6 toons was taking an hour to zone.

Hopefully they can fix it soon. They cant push it to live like this.......or can they?

 

[woobs]

Others are reporting that it may NOT be only NVIDIA. But at least the Devs are aware and working on it.

 

[montywand]

Others are reporting that it may not be only NVIDIA. But at least the Devs are aware and working on it.

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Nah I have amd system and thought I was safe but had 2 cases last night with 10 minutes plus zoning. Heroes forge was one zone and then had a issue with guild lobby/hall