How Well Does The Elder Scrolls Online Run On Your PC?

[damric]

It would have been nice to see some multi-thread scaling in a game released in 2014. Looks like all you need is MHz. Is this DX9?

 

[Shinethelight99]

GW2 lacks high-end PvE, at least in my opinion. ESO doesn't seem to be that much better in that aspect. Which is one of the reasons I'm more excited about Wildstar. 8 weeks until headstart.

GW2 does not have as much Max level content as older MMOs, Butt that is to be expected from newer MMOs, Same goes for ESO.

Uhm, ESO just came out, today. When ESO has been out two years then you can maybe start to compare it to GW2. GW2 has had a little added to it but don't try and act like it has had full blown WoWesque expansions added to it for free. Give me a break F2P fanboys. Wildstar is just a pipe dream for all the people that now hate WoW and hate ESO both. It's like their only hope or something. IMO it doesn't look like anything special to me and is more of a WoW clone than any of the other games that are being labeled WoW clones.

 

[mamasan2000]

It seems to me like there were a lot of people expecting this MMORPG to be a lot less MMORPG-like. I can't really understand what it is that you were expecting, but a single player Elder Scrolls title ala Skyrim was never going to be it.

That could be because of every article I read said it would play more like a singleplayer game than an MMO.

And a remark about EQ charging subscription fees. Even Sony has changed their subscription model (or will very soon). When you pay 15€/$ per month, you will get subscriber-access to ALL their MMOs.

I wish the game was more polished but its Skyrim all over again. How many bugs did the unofficial patches fix? Hundreds? Thousands? Even after all the updates from Bethesda.

 

[Tuishimi]

Anyone know how it runs with dual cards?

 

[Damn_Rookie]

Anyone know how it runs with dual cards?

Based on the article? Badly. Very badly. Doesn't look like there are SLI or Crossfire profiles for the game yet, or at least there weren't when the tests were done. I'm sure that'll be fixed eventually (if it hasn't already).

 

[sjc1017]

Thanks for the information on GW 2. I really admired the production values in that game and the labour that went into producing the world. It was an amazing game but the game mechanics, for me, made it shallow. Without tank and healer the classes lacked specificity and you felt useless and purposeless (feelings I turn to MMOs to escape) and you see that in the way they reproduce functions at higher levels in the skill trees. I'll buy any expansions since I have about seven max level characters but I wish they'd gone with the traditional MMO mechanics, it would then have been a far superior game. The solution to group formation is a LFG system not to sacrifice specialist mechanics.

 

[Novuake]

GW2 lacks high-end PvE, at least in my opinion. ESO doesn't seem to be that much better in that aspect. Which is one of the reasons I'm more excited about Wildstar. 8 weeks until headstart.

GW2 does not have as much Max level content as older MMOs, Butt that is to be expected from newer MMOs, Same goes for ESO.

Uhm, ESO just came out, today. When ESO has been out two years then you can maybe start to compare it to GW2. GW2 has had a little added to it but don't try and act like it has had full blown WoWesque expansions added to it for free. Give me a break F2P fanboys. Wildstar is just a pipe dream for all the people that now hate WoW and hate ESO both. It's like their only hope or something. IMO it doesn't look like anything special to me and is more of a WoW clone than any of the other games that are being labeled WoW clones.

As I said, I only have one major problem with ESO, and that is the subscription based model.

 

[Novuake]

Thanks for the information on GW 2. I really admired the production values in that game and the labour that went into producing the world. It was an amazing game but the game mechanics, for me, made it shallow. Without tank and healer the classes lacked specificity and you felt useless and purposeless (feelings I turn to MMOs to escape) and you see that in the way they reproduce functions at higher levels in the skill trees. I'll buy any expansions since I have about seven max level characters but I wish they'd gone with the traditional MMO mechanics, it would then have been a far superior game. The solution to group formation is a LFG system not to sacrifice specialist mechanics.

Yeah the holy trinity of tank, DPS and healer is not a MUSTR in GW2 and the lack thereoff causes issues when using LFG.
But playing with friend or people you know have a bit more savvy, "gives you purpose" in dungeons or anywhere.


And the feature pack that is coming the 15th wont be something you pay for. Its just rolled out as an update.

 

[3ogdy]

Wait a minute, so you're saying you ONLY display the Core i7 4770K overclocked to 4.4GHz? How about the results with the CPU running at stock frequencies?Then again, the i7 4770K overclocked to 4.4GHz was only 3.9FPS better than a stock i5-3550.By the looks of it, the i7 might actually get you around the same performance as an i5 3550 or less (that things runs @ 3.3 stock & 3.7 on turbo). So what we're seeing here is that the Elder Scrolls online makes no difference between what is a $200 CPU (FX8350) and a $340 chip - keep in mind that's running at 1080p, where you're more probable to put considerable load on the CPU - as the resolution goes up, the CPU performance becomes less and less relevant as the GPU becomes the main pillar for performance. Well, I thought Elder Scrolls would run better on Intel. It clearly ain't worth buy an i7 for Elder Scrolls only. I would still buy one since thermals are better on it, but that in this specific case, getting it is like throwing $140 on the window and pretending you have a better computer.

 

[zooted]

Yikes, looks like AMD have some optimizations ahead of them.

 

[Sakkura]

Wait a minute, so you're saying you ONLY display the Core i7 4770K overclocked to 4.4GHz? How about the results with the CPU running at stock frequencies?Then again, the i7 4770K overclocked to 4.4GHz was only 3.9FPS better than a stock i5-3550.By the looks of it, the i7 might actually get you around the same performance as an i5 3550 or less (that things runs @ 3.3 stock & 3.7 on turbo).

They're just using it to demonstrate that the game does scale with higher clocks. You can't judge the gap between the Core i7-4770K and the Core i5-3550 like that, because the 4770K may have run into some GPU bottlenecking. Saying it would be slower than the Core i5-3550 if you tested it at stock clocks is moronic. It's an architecture that is faster per clock on all parameters (not by a lot, but far from being slower).

It does illustrate that for gaming, spending a lot of money on a Core i7 is rarely worth it. A good Core i5 will do nearly as well for a lot less money.

You go on to say that the FX-8350 is a better value than the Core i7-4770K, but for crying out loud - the FX-8350 is matched by a Core i3-3220! This benchmark certainly doesn't help the FX-8350's value proposition.

 

[Zombie615]

I'll never understand why ZeniMax decided on an MMO. I think what people truly wanted was an Elder Scrolls game that had co-op so you could share your game world with friends. Or at least that is what I wanted. =P

Exactly!!!! Who the hell has time to play this MMO type of game anymore? If you do you probably sit on your damn ass all day an not contribute to society at all.

If they don't announce another Elder Scrolls Title before the end of the year (2014) than the Elder Scrolls Series will be dead to me.

MMO's are just another reason for kids to sit on there ass an gain more weight an become less productive in life.

 

[Novuake]

I'll never understand why ZeniMax decided on an MMO. I think what people truly wanted was an Elder Scrolls game that had co-op so you could share your game world with friends. Or at least that is what I wanted. =P

Exactly!!!! Who the hell has time to play this MMO type of game anymore? If you do you probably sit on your damn ass all day an not contribute to society at all.

If they don't announce another Elder Scrolls Title before the end of the year (2014) than the Elder Scrolls Series will be dead to me.

MMO's are just another reason for kids to sit on there ass an gain more weight an become less productive in life.

You should keep opinions like that to yourself.

 

[sjc1017]

Well Grandmaster is right, I play MMOs because I sit on my arse all day and contribute nothing to society, who does?

 

[Zombie615]

I'll never understand why ZeniMax decided on an MMO. I think what people truly wanted was an Elder Scrolls game that had co-op so you could share your game world with friends. Or at least that is what I wanted. =P

Exactly!!!! Who the hell has time to play this MMO type of game anymore? If you do you probably sit on your damn ass all day an not contribute to society at all.

If they don't announce another Elder Scrolls Title before the end of the year (2014) than the Elder Scrolls Series will be dead to me.

MMO's are just another reason for kids to sit on there ass an gain more weight an become less productive in life.

You should keep opinions like that to yourself.

its a fact

 

[Novuake]

its a fact

How can it be a fact?

I play MMOs.

A. I am not a kid. But have been playing since I was one.
B. I am a Cisco Systems engineer.

Sooooo? Much useless I am.

 

[Zombie615]

its a fact

How can it be a fact?

I play MMOs.

A. I am not a kid. But have been playing since I was one.
B. I am a Cisco Systems engineer.

Sooooo? Much useless I am.

have you seen the kids these days?

 

[Novuake]

have you seen the kids these days?

Don't generalize. What you see and think does not apply to every single child out there. Hell I know many good kids that still play MMOs. Kids that are probably on their way to be engineers and doctors or even just a simple member of society like me and you. So again, do not generalize.

 

[sjc1017]

Kids don't usually like MMOs, they are too repetitive and work-like for them, they like more cinematic games with constant action, it's adolescents that play MMOs because they like the experience of presence they use the games to provide, hence the culture of conspicuous display and hierarchy characteristic of most MMOs. A lot play while students while they are held outside of the world of work that they are forced to wait to attempt to enter. The issue of time and MMOs is an issue, it's why many people don't play but you can just play for a couple of hours on an evening. I play with a guy who works and then just plays after his evening meal for a couple of hours before settling down with his wife.

 

[Zombie615]

Yeah but if you don't play enough you might as well not play at all. When you don't play enough... especially when the game is set around PVP you will always die cause of those no lifers who max out their level within days of the games release. Than they just go stomping on everyone that is trying to learn the game an play casually.

Well from viewing twitch live of this game most the people look like pot-heads or people who are highly uneducated. Just saying... I'm not trying to generalize but it just seems to be a poor aspect of the American society. Games that take people to far from reality. That's why I can't get caught up in them I have a daughter to raise.

 

[sjc1017]

Well, the elitism in these games is a problem, it's why I've never got into end-game content or pvp. There is a problem in that online culture tends to end up as a dominance hierarchy where people attempt to degrade others and negate them via displays of value relating to the game-resources, precisely what originally drew me to MMOs, they offer associational and cooperative possibilities lacking in solitary gaming. I think a lot of the culture arises from the people who play: in the UK the university educated are elitist and look to enjoy displays of public value and they just do the same online. Working people tend to play games like call of duty, it's more immediate and visceral than role playing games.

 

[Novuake]

Yeah but if you don't play enough you might as well not play at all. When you don't play enough... especially when the game is set around PVP you will always die cause of those no lifers who max out their level within days of the games release. Than they just go stomping on everyone that is trying to learn the game an play casually.

Well from viewing twitch live of this game most the people look like pot-heads or people who are highly uneducated. Just saying... I'm not trying to generalize but it just seems to be a poor aspect of the American society. Games that take people to far from reality. That's why I can't get caught up in them I have a daughter to raise.

"American society". See right there is the root of your problem. Your experience is limited to YOUR country or even your state ONLY, hell if you do not get out enough its much more limited to that.

Do you understand why I am saying you are generalizing?
And besides, gaming or specific game in ANY society is not the root problem. EVER.

 

[logainofhades]

its a fact

How can it be a fact?

I play MMOs.

A. I am not a kid. But have been playing since I was one.
B. I am a Cisco Systems engineer.

Sooooo? Much useless I am.

I am a metrology tech for an automotive parts supplier that supplies to GM, Toyota, Honda, and Ford. We even make parts for Husqvarna. I work with engineers daily and pretty much have one of the most important jobs in the place. Without me, nothing can get approved. I am on call 24/7. Yet, I play WoW. I have like 10 lvl 90's, and have one of the best geared Ret Paladins on my server. I still go out and have my fun away from home.

 

[razor512]

For the cost of the overpriced monthly fee, you can put that money into getting some good high end components and play some other games that are not boring grinding heavy.

 

[Novuake]

I am a metrology tech for an automotive parts supplier that supplies to GM, Toyota, Honda, and Ford. We even make parts for Husqvarna. I work with engineers daily and pretty much have one of the most important jobs in the place. Without me, nothing can get approved. I am on call 24/7. Yet, I play WoW. I have like 10 lvl 90's, and have one of the best geared Ret Paladins on my server. I still go out and have my fun away from home.

Precisely.