In oblivion, you were able to ask guards where to find people which was really helpful. Can you do the same here, because the markers don't show up on active quests and its pissing me off

If you are referring to the quests under the misc category, make sure the quest and the category is marked as active. So far every quest i have done where i had to go somewhere or talk to someone had working quest markers.

yeah at one point the markers werent working for me either, fixed itself after a bit (or maybe im an idiot lol) but yeah sadly guards dont have much to say