Addons Not Showing Up In Eso

Posted on 08.09.2019

The latest addition to the longstanding Elder Scrolls series is halfway through early access already, and preorder players have already been plagued with the usual first-day difficulties.

Minion Addon Eso

Here are some of the issues I and others around the internet have been experiencing, as well as some suggestions on how to fix them.

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No in-game sound

This one happened to me. I would have sound as far as the opening trailers and the opening cinematic but nothing once I got in-game. Now it worked perfectly fine while I was in beta, so it was something new.

While I was patching, some data was corrupted - which makes sense, the patching process was a little broken before the 30th with stops and starts all over the place.

If you are experiencing this issue (or any issue) and it says you are ready to play, verify that your downloaded files are complete and error-free.

Start the ESO launcher.
Select Game Options (small drop down right above the news pane).
Click 'Repair.'

This will prompt a quick scouring of your game files and will sort out whether anything has to be redownloaded. Mine was about 5 GBs.

Loading Screen Error

This has been a recurring issue for some players since beta and Bethesda has had its hands full trying to find out what is causing it and a solution for it. One of our GameSkinny writers experienced this issue - and managed to solve it too!

According to her, Adobe Flash Player is the culprit. She has already written extensively on this particular issue fix, so please check outElder Scrolls Online - Stuck Loading? Try This Solution!

Spinning in Place

If your character is stuck constantly spinning in place, there are two different fixes for this particular issue. Many users have reported that upgrading from Windows 8.0 to 8.1 is enough to fix the issue.

Minion Addon Eso

However, other players who are not using Windows 8.0 are still experiencing this issue as well, and this the recommended fix for the issue:

Right-click the ESO launcher icon.
Select Properties.
Select the Compatibility tab.
Disable display scaling on high DPI settings.

Hopefully this will be enough to fix the issue.

Freezing Mid-Update

While I found myself with corrupted files but an otherwise playable game, others weren't so lucky. Another one of our GameSkinny writers experienced this issue, where the update screen would freeze and refuse to download anything.

She has since managed to solve the issue and has also written extensively on the solution, which you can find here: How To Solve Elder Scrolls Online Update Freeze Issues.

ESO Launcher Will Not Start

Some players are unable to start the launcher at all, much less update or get into the game. If this is happening to you, first make sure that it is not your firewall or antivirus program preventing you from running it.

If that doesn't work, try running the launcher program as administrator (right-click > run as administrator).

Try running the launcher “as administrator”.
Make sure that you are not using any VPN or proxy.
If you have any ad-blocker or similar tools installed, try disabling them.
Also, try disabling your antivirus/firewall temporarily to see if the problem goes away.

Unable to Zoom In During Character Creation

This also happened to me. There is no current fix for this, although other players have reported that upon making a second character, the zoom in function worked just fine.

Bethesda has announced that a fix for it is planned for a future update.

'Error 302'

Players who experience this error see 'Lobby Connection Failed' when attempting to sign in. While there is no immediate fix available, it has been reported that shutting down the launcher and retrying after 10-20 minutes will allow you to connect just fine.

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Players who receive this error also have some corrupted or unusable files which will need to be redownloaded. Unfortunately, running the Repair tool from the launcher alone does not seem to be able to find and fix the problem. Some users have reported that deleting these files first before running the Repair tool and redownloading the files have fixed the issue:

Eso.manifest (C:Program Files (x86)Zenimax OnlineThe Elder Scrolls Online InternalLivegameclient)
Data.manifest file (C:Program Files (x86)Zenimax OnlineThe Elder Scrolls Online InternalLivedepot_databuild)
zos.control.manifest
zos.core.manifest
zos.eso.manifest

These files should not take very long to reacquire.

Play Button Is Grayed Out

This is an issue several users have reported, and I found a solution that seems to have some success here. This is the workaround.

Locate UserSettings.txt in My Documents/The Elder Scrolls Online/Live. As I am not a fan of effacing stuff without a backup, I would suggest renaming the original first (e.g. ORIG_UserSettings.txt), opening up Notepad and making a new one.

Paste the following text inside it:

Save the file as UserSettings.txt in the same folder. Then start the launcher and hopefully the button will be a bright and shining blue.

Crash After Pressing Play

I've gotten a few comments about this one. Whenever the user presses the Play button, the game unexpectedly crashes and an error message pops up. Theros_9946was good enough to post a solution:

Try editing the UserSettings.txt. (The default location for that would be My Documents/The Elder Scrolls Online/Live)
Open UserSettings.txt in Notepad and then locate the string SET GraphicsDriver.7 'D3D11' and change 'D3D11' to 'OpenGL' (You can hit Ctrl + F and paste in SET GraphicsDriver.7 to find the string easier.)
After you've made that change Save and close Notepad and try launching the game again.

If you are running into any other issues, please feel free to leave a comment. I apologize if I am unable to find a fix for you right away (if at all), although I promise to try my best. Thank you very much to everyone for reporting both issues and fixes!

Edit: It appears that notifications for GameSkinny are currently not working properly and I will have to check for comments manually. I will try to keep up, but if I miss your comment, I am very sorry!

After playing Elder Scrolls Online for more than a year, I have selected 51 best ESO addons for you to make it an even more amazing game even 12 years later.

Bethesda made a slow entry to MMO world with their game The Elder Scrolls Online in 2014 but with constant support to the game, it has come back better than ever. One of the best features it has is that it has hundreds of addons made the by the community. So if you are looking for the ESO best add-ons, today we will list the best The Elder Scrolls Online addons for you. You can check out elder scrolls online mods list here.

Since ESO is an MMORPG, it does not have any game-changing, overhaul addons or mods, but combining a lot of small but great changes can lead to a much better experience overall. So for that, we will a total of 51 most essential ESO add ons, just so you have options.

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Best ESO Must Have AddOns

1. Votan’s Minimap

The first thing you need (in any game) is a minimap, and luckily Votan’s Minimap is a simple, great addon that does not interfere with your HUD or interface a lot. It makes the exploration and traveling around TESO’s world much easier and more enjoyable.

Download here.

2. QuestMap

If you are a true completionist and want to complete every quest in The Elder Scrolls Online, here is an addon that will make your life easy: QuestMap. It marks every quest available on your map and makes them more manageable.

Download here.

3. Destinations

As you can understand from its name, Destinations marks the various points of interest on your map, such as Crafting Locations, Solo Dungeons, Group Events, Group Delves. It also has support for French, German, Japanese or Russian and English names.

Download here.

4. SkyShards

Skyshards are very important in ESO. They give you 1 skill point for every 3 of them you find, so you will want to discover as many of them as possible. This handy addon marks every skyshard on your map so you can go hunt for that 127 skill points right now.

Download here.

5. LoreBooks

Just like other map addons, LoreBooks highlights all the books in the game. It divides them into 3 categories: Unknown Lorebooks, Collected Lorebooks and Eidetic Memory. You can see which one is which by their icons in-game.

Download here.

6. Dungeon Tracker

Being the huge game The Elder Scrolls Online is, there are hundreds of different dungeons. To get all the loot, experience and fun, you will want to complete every ESO dungeon. This small addon lists every single one for you. You need to actually discover them to see the tips, though.

Download here.

7. Lost Treasure

Lost Treasure is a great Elder Scrolls Online addon that shows survey locations and treasure map on your map. It also features a built-in minimap, if you do not have another minimap addon, which you can keep on your screen to locate treasure or surveys easier.

Download here.

HarvestMap is a good Elder Scrolls Online addon for beginners. It shows you every location you can find resources in, including resource nodes, chests and fishing spots. You can even turn on the Heatmap feature to show the density of the resources. You can find ores, clothing material, wood, runestones, flowers/herbs and much more.

Download here.

9. Votan’s Improved Locations

Another one of the essential ESO addon by Votan, Improved Locations reforms the “Locations” tab of the world-map to be much more useful. Locations are now categorized by alliances with your alliance being the first and you can also see the 5 locations you recently used at the top.

Download here.

10. Votan’s Improved Quests

Like other addons by Votan, Improved Quests is one of the fundamental ESO addon. It sorts the quests you have way better than the vanilla game and categorizes them like crafting quests, guild quests, quests in other zones etc.

Download here.

11. PvpMeter

PvE is fun and all, but are you really playing Elder Scrolls Online if you are not PvP’ing? This essential PvP addon gives you every data about your PvP experience like your stats such as matches, wins, losses and has different modules for different PvP sections such as Duel and Battlegrounds.

Download here.

12. Foundry Tactical Combat

Foundry Tactical Combat is a UI addon that adds a lot of needed combat data for you to see. Its features are Unit Frames, Active Buff Tracking, Combat Log, Scrolling Combat Text, Damage Statistics and Advanced Hotbar. Each one of them and configurable individually so you can choose which one to use or not.

Download here.

13. Combat Metrics

Combat Metrics is one of the best combat addons for ESO for the people that want to know everything about their fighting data. You can see your total DPS and which skills contribute to it, detect the sources of the damage you took and check your buffs and debuffs. One of the must-have addons for every serious player.

Download here.

14. Advanced Filters

Inventory management in Elder Scrolls Online can be a pain since the original filters are way too broad to give you any specificity. Advanced Filters comes as an absolutely essential inventory addon for ESO that fixes this by introducing new, more detailed subfilters.

Download here.

15. ItemPreview

Being able to review certain items is not present in the vanilla game but ItemPreview solves that. This handy, useful TESO addon allows you to preview armor, furniture and furniture recipes so you can make better decisions while

16. Dressing Room Reborn

Dressing Room Reborn is a great ESO addon that allows you to save action bars and equipped gear as sets, so you can switch between your PvP and PvE build with one hotkey easily. It is not aimed at beginners since you won’t have

enough items for 2 builds anyways but it is one of the fundamental ESO addon for experienced players.

Download here.

17. Furniture Catalogue

There are hundreds of different furniture in Elder Scrolls Online and choosing which one to use in your house can be frustrating if you are obsessed with style. Furniture Catalogue gives you the full list of every furniture in the game and you can sort them with different filters.

Download here.

18. Inventory Grid View

A list-style inventory may have worked for Skyrim since we did not have hundreds of items there but for ESO, it does not work. Inventory Grid View is an essential inventory addon that reforms the inventory to a grid view, allowing you to see much more items at once.

Download here.

19. Itemization Browser

There are literally hundreds of different item sets in ESO and planning ahead for what you will be using is nearly impossible. Itemization Browser lets you browse and filter every single item set in the game and see its level and attributes.

Download here.

20. Item Saver

As you know, you can deconstruct items in the game. If you are not a collector, you can usually just keep your set and deconstruct everything else but if you are a collector or want to keep certain items among hundreds of unnecessary stuff, Item Saver lets you create separate sets with those items, or you can mark them so you do not deconstruct them accidentally.

Download here.

21. Harven’s Trait and Style

This small quality of life improvement addon for ESO adds more additional information to a weapon’s/armor’s tooltip, those being armor/weapon style and knowledge about its trait and whether it is known, being researched or researchable.

Download here.

22. Votan’s Rune Tooltips

This basic addon gives you more information about the runes you collect, like level/type of the resulting glyph and what it does specifically before you get to the enchanting table.

Download here.

23. Urich’s Skill Point Finder

This life-saving ESO addon is a great tool if you want to earn as many skill points as possible. It shows you every skill point you did get and didn’t get throughout the entire game so you can go and hunt for the ones that you don’t have.

Download here.

24. Harven’s Improved Skills Window

Another essential quality of life addon by Harven that makes our lives much better. It lets you preview next rank and upgrade information of active abilities and morph information of purchased abilities, making planning your build for the later much more easier.

Download here.

25. Bag Space Indicator

Addons that show you how much space you got left is quite popular, but none of them is as configurable as Bag Space Indicator. You can choose to see Alliance Points, gold, bag space, Soul Gems, horse feed timer, research, timers, level and Experience. Plus, it does not obstruct your view while playing the game.

Download here.

26. Votan’s Achievements Overview

This smart achievement tracking addon for ESO does things a little bit differently. Instead of just blandly showing you the of your progress -or lack of-, it shows you the progress of achievements that you are trying to get at the moment, so you don’t go looking for it among hundreds of others.

Download here.

27. FCM Quest Tracker

There are a lot of quest tracker addons for ESO out there, but FCM Quest Tracker is probably the most adjustable. You can choose how many to show, share quests, remove quests, filter quests by zone, show quest on the map and

much more and it doesn’t obstruct you while staying on the right side of the interface.

Download here.

28. Master Merchant

Master Merchant is a great shopping addon that lets you see your Guild’s top sellers are and what they are selling, allowing you to find awesome deals and help save you money. It provides many other trade-related improvements such as showing you guild sales and sales tax income.

Download here.

29. True Exploration

If you are feeling extra masochistic while playing ESO, you can use True Exploration. It makes it so that the map will start as an empty piece of paper, but your character will draw everything he/she sees on your map as you travel the world of Tamriel. Immersive? Yes.

Download here.

30. pChat

pChat is a chat addon for Elder Scrolls Online which gives you a lot more options with your chat window. You can keep your chat history, change account names with character names, copy texts, prevent spam, resize the chatbox. Your chatbox will also be much more colorful instead of grey texts everywhere.

Download here.

31. WPamA (What Pledges at my Alts)

If you have more than one character that you are running daily/weekly tasks on, this addon is for you. It keeps a track for World Bosses in Wrothgar, Vvardenfell and Gold Coast, statuses of trials, random dungeons, class, guild and craft skills and much more for your alternative characters.

Download here.

32. Srendarr – Aura, Buff & Debuff Tracker

Another essential combat addon, Srendarr shows lets you track buffs and debuffs on yourself as well as others. Normally, these show via graphical effects or don’t show at all, but Srendarr lets you group & move buff types and track all your cooldowns and ability durations during combat.

Download here.

33. Azurah – Interface Enhanced

There are hundreds of UI addons for ESO out there, and if you are using more than 5, it can get confusing pretty fast. Azurah lets you unlock the interface windows, allowing you to move them anywhere on the screen and scaled in size, which allows for a personalized experience and much less chaotic screen.

Download here.

34. Awesome Guild Store

Unfortunately, the native game’s guild store interface is not really user-friendly with so few options. Awesome Guild Store comes as another great interface addon, letting you filter categories, and subcategories similar to Advanced Filters and adds range sliders for level, price and quality filters.

Download here.

35. MultiCraft

The simplest addon on our list is MultiCraft. In the native game, you have to click once each time you want to craft something, even if you have the resources for more. MultiCraft adds a spinner to all crafting professions, which you can set to a certain number, allowing you to craft as many items as you can with only one click.

36. Potion Maker (for Alchemy Crafting)

A useful addon for alchemy, Potion Maker lets you see every potion you could make with your current ingredients. You can then click on the desired potion and add the ingredients automatically to the potion table. It also shows you every discovered and undiscovered potion that has the ingredient you chose.

Download here.

37. Craftstore DB

Crafting plays a big role in Elder Scrolls Online, so if you are going to try it at all -which you should-, Craftstore DB is the most important crafting addon in the game. It does a lot of things, but mainly it lets you keep track of every known and unknown recipe while also having full lists of every recipe and furniture in the game.

Download here.

38. Binder (Updated)

When you start a new character on ESO, your keybindings get reset and this can get frustrating for people with multiple characters. Binding lets you save keybindings as sets and automatically replaces it with a single command when you start a new character.

Download here.

39. Kill Counter

Kill Counter adds ESO to the pool of games in which you can boast about K/D. This simple PvP addon lets you keep track of kills, killing blows, deaths, players that have killed you, K/D ratio, siege stats, with which skills you have the most kills etc.

Download here.

40. Loot Log

This is probably the smallest addon on the list with mere kilobytes. Loot Log shows every item you and your group has looted in the chat window. Additionally, it displays the traits of gear items in the log and character names and items are clickable links, so you can arrange deals with them.

Download here.

41. LUI: Extended

LUI: Extended is an all-in-one addon package that has multiple different functions. It tracks our buffs & debuffs, gives you combat info and has chat announcements such as receiving currency, loot tracking, achievements, lore books, collectibles, experience gain etc. It also has a module called Unit Frames, which allows you to relocate & resize unit frames that come from LUIE on your screen.

Download here.

42. No, Thank You!

Just like every other MMORPG, ESO can get quite hectic after some time. All the notifications, UI pop-ups and chat messages feel overwhelming. No, Thank You! comes as a required addon in this scenario, letting you block unwanted messages, notifications and change some of the UI behaviors.

Download here.

43. Raid Notifier

This essential PvE mod gives you a warning whenever you are on a raid and a raid boss is about to hit you, when you are under an effect or the boss is performing a certain mechanic. There are way more alerts in Raid Notifier and each one of them can be enabled/disabled.

Download here.

44. Votan’s Fisherman

Fishing in ESO is weird: It can be peaceful or boring. If you find it boring, Votan’s Fisherman can let you watch Netflix while waiting, since it gives you a huge flash of light on-screen whenever a fish in on the hook. It also saves the water type of the fishing nods you have previously fished on, letting you use proper bait for it next time.

Download here.

45. Circonians Addon Selector

ESO has hundreds of addons and our list isn’t that small either. If you are going to install multiple addons -which you should-, use Circonians Addon Selector. It lets you choose certain addons and save that bundle so you can test stuff and change back to your original setup easily.

Download here.

46. SALTI – Currency Totals

This UI addon enhances the tooltip you see when hovering over your currency totals. Now you can see all your tracked characters’ current Gold, Telvar, AP, your total banked currency etc. Everything you need to know abot your belongings, right here.

Download here.

47. Wykkyd’s Full Immersion

If you want to truly immerse yourself to the Elder Scrolls Online’s world or want to take a screenshot without annoying UI elements, Wykkyd Full Immersion lets you switch off even the default interface windows like Compass, Quest Tracker and Targeting Reticle.

Download here.

48. Wykkyd’s Framework

Wykkyd’s Framework is a addon collection for ESO which has a lot of essential modules in it. Addons like Wykkyd Suite Manager, Enhanced Chat, Enhanced HUD, Macros and Toolbar are all great addons with each one having great uses for an overall better experience.

Download here.

49. Bandits User Interface

So far we’ve only covered functional addons, but Bandit User Interface is more than that. It has functional modules like group and raid frames, combat statistics and notifications, buff and minimap but its more appeal to me was its 3 different styles of UI, which all look better aesthetically than native game in my opinion.

Download here.

50. Dustman

Elder Scrolls Online is a big game and during your hundreds of hours of gameplay, you will loot thousands of items. This useful inventory management addon, Dustman, helps you clear your inventory from unwanted items. You can mark items as junk with dozens of different options such as depending on their rarity, traits or quality.

Download here.

So this is our list of best Elder Scrolls Online addons for beginners and advanced players alike. Though the game suffered at the start, with updates and the support from the community with these awesome addons helped the game rise from its ashes. So if think we have missed an awesome addon, let us know below!