General Discussion

[BetaB17]

Well, ESO functionally had its own ingame chat which sorta removed the need for help threads n plenty of discussions. Blades and Legends are already niche crowds(of folks who actually have played either)

[AKB]

Funny, you'd think that with all the times on all the platforms Bethesda has released this game over and over again, there'd be enough new incoming players to explore the forums.

Or could it be that fridge owners get their Skyrim play hints over on the Maytag service and customer support board?

Well there are multiple causes to it. The most predominant one is the fact that one of our platforms, Discord, is the more popular service like this. Our Discord server, in its comparatively short lifespan, has had as many messages sent to it as this forum has had in its entire lifespan. Time is the other main factor here, with the scale between main releases.

With that said, we can still keep this forum alive. As long as we still want to come here and post here, it's still going to be here. It won't be easy, but if we overall care about this place and want to see it continue, we can keep it going.

[Luvitus]

Oh man I thought I'd finally asked for my account to be deleted and forgotten about it. Turns out I was trying to log in with my old username.

Finally getting back into Morrowind modding, but nobody's gonna appreciate it because it nerfs heaps of things.

[Cassandra]

Just popping in for some general discussion, as one does on a Friday night.

[BetaB17]

Lies.

[Cassandra]

Excuse me sir, it's not very becoming to accuse a lady of lying.

[BetaB17]

Yes, very not becoming

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Spoiler:

@Cass

[SeaGtGruff]

I guess this is as good a place for this as any.

About a month or more ago, the hard drive on my beloved Windows 10 desktop bit the dust. (Probably had something to do with the fact that it was excessively bloated with Elder Scrolls games; multiple DAWs-- if anyone here knows what those are-- numerous virtual instruments and other plugins [for the DAWs]; numerous owner's manuals, data lists, and service manuals for hundreds of different keyboards and synths; and of course all sorts of personal documents, spreadsheets, etc.) Of course I had almost none of that backed up, except for stuff I'd been saving to DropBox for easier accessibility across devices, or that I'd moved onto an old ginormous 80 GB external hard drive to try to free up space. ("Ginormous" refers both sincerely to the physical size of the hard drive, and sarcastically to its storage capacity.)

Anyway, for the last month or so I've been fortunate enough to be able to get my several-hours-a-day Elder Scrolls fix by playing ESO on my MacBook Air, as well as Blades and Legends on my iPad, but I haven't been able to play anything else.

Yesterday I finally bought a new Windows 10 computer on sale, and right now I'm in the process of downloading all of my Elder Scrolls games. And since I'd installed and set up Arena in my DropBox folder, I'll even be able to set that up again in Steam and resume my Arena games were I'd left off!

[Insert happy dance here.]

Now I just need to be sure to get a decent external hard drive and start keeping regular backups like smart people do.

[SeaGtGruff]

I must say, ESO and Oblivion are awesome on my new 'puter! The only bad thing is that after playing ESO on my MacBook Air, I've gotten used to the slightly different key bindings between the Windows and Mac versions of ESO.

[AKB]

I must say, ESO and Oblivion are awesome on my new 'puter! The only bad thing is that after playing ESO on my MacBook Air, I've gotten used to the slightly different key bindings between the Windows and Mac versions of ESO.

That's great! I'm curious how you are enjoying the switch over, beyond that? I am surprised you could enjoy it as much as you did on the MacBook Air (I've had bad experiences in the past though, so I'm always cautious abou tthem). But I'm glad your issues are resovled.

[SeaGtGruff]

Do you mean you're surprised I could enjoy playing ESO on a MacBook rather than on a Windows PC, or that I could enjoy switching back to a Windows PC after having experienced a MacBook?

The first time I tried to play ESO on my MacBook Air, the graphics were all messed up, as though my character were being rendered inside out; it was like there were vectors going out from my character to the edges of the screen, and the planes they created were filled in with colors. I don't know how else to describe it, but basically I couldn't see anything well enough to navigate through the environment, and if I did manage to move around then the picture would often go into an endless spin as though my character were twirling. Disappointed, I gave up trying to play it.

Sometime much later, I was going to be taking care of a friend's house while she was on vacation, and I wanted to see if I could at least use my MacBook Air to sign on and grab my daily login rewards while I was at her house. Lo and behold, the graphics rendering issues were gone!

I should point out that after I bought my MacBook Air, I'd tried to update it to the latest version of macOS, which at that time was Mojave, but it simply would not download and install the update no matter how often I tried doing so through the App Store. I later decided to search for instructions on how to update to Mojave, and following those instructions I was finally able to do it. This was between the time I'd first tried unsuccessfully to play ESO and the time I discovered it was suddenly working, so I figure my original problems were caused by a lack of compatibility between whatever pre-Mojave macOS version was on my MacBook and the then-latest build of ESO for macOS.

However, then I started having problems related to the mouse pointer, where an extra copy of the pointer would get stuck on the game screen in the most annoying places.

Also, there were problems with the borders of the window, where I'd move the mouse pointer to do something and suddenly find that somehow I must have clicked on the desktop outside the borders of the game window and caused the game to lose focus.

And the majority of the time I couldn't get the game to close down normally, regardless of whether I tried to quit from inside the game (that is, while logged in on one of my characters), or logged out to the character screen and then tried to quit, or logged all the way out to the server selection screen and then tried to quit. Sometimes I could use the keyboard to force quit, but sometimes even that would just freeze up the MacBook and I'd have to shut it down with the power button.

I checked the ESO Forums for any information about these issues, and saw a post from a ZOS employee who said to go into the Mac's Settings and increase the mouse pointer size just a tad, so I did that and it solved the problem of the extra copy of the mouse pointer.

And I took to playing the game in fullscreen mode to avoid the problem of the game losing focus if I inadvertently clicked on the itty bitty sliver of the desktop that was apparently present just outside the game's window (even though no such itty bitty sliver of desktop could be seen).

Then there were updates to ESO when a DLC or new chapter was released, and sometimes after applying an update I would log in, but as soon as my character loaded the screen would start spinning like crazy. It turned out there was a popup dialog box from the system asking if I wanted to let the application change my settings, or something of that nature, but I couldn't see it because it was behind the game screen. After I told the system that I wanted to allow ESO to make changes, the spinning stopped.

Then I decided to go back to playing ESO in a window, so I could see the battery indicator at the top of the screen. This was after numerous occasions of having the MacBook go to sleep because of low battery power while I was in the middle of doing something, even though I never saw the little warning appear in the bottom right corner saying that I had only X number of minutes of battery power left. After I switched back to windowed mode, I was pleased to discover that the issues of accidentally clicking outside the left or right border of the window were gone.

Unfortunately, the problems of the game not quitting properly never did get resolved, so whenever I play ESO on the MacBook it's still necessary to force quit about 90% of the time.

[HatofMadness]

I leave you people alone for a while, and look, everything has gone to pot.

[BetaB17]

I mean the discord server is alive and well

[HatofMadness]

Well Happy Thanksgiving UESPee'ers

[Believe]

Well Happy Thanksgiving UESPee'ers

At our age, it's starting to become a problem, so thank you.

[scribbane]

I'm not really here anymore, but just thought I'd say hello to anyone who might remember me. Hope all are well.

[BetaB17]

Sup Scrib! Those of us left or over in the discord are doing well

[Argonanza]

*tumbleweeds*

[BetaB17]

[Believe]

In ye olde times, and days of yore,
Twas UESP General forums galore.
But not so these days, (Though Beta's cray-crazed)
...... ........ (....)
Poetry!



And now I need a drink.

[BetaB17]

(Though Beta's cray-crazed)

And now I need a drink.

[Cassandra]

Wowow, all the oldies are coming back.

[Believe]

Wowow, all the oldies are coming back.

I'm young at heart...

And Nanza can pass for a 13 year old.

Scrib though, Scrib is old as [&@%!].

[BetaB17]

[Luvitus]

I ain't old.