also i went ahead and install other games that are way more graphic intense and not a single problem with those 2. so problem lies with this game and that update.
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also i went ahead and install other games that are way more graphic intense and not a single problem with those 2. so problem lies with this game and that update.
Many other recent games support multiple processor cores. FFXI is a PC program from 2002, before multicore and hyperthreading were a thing. You're essentially trying to run a Win98 game on a system with features the game can't use, and where the hardware isn't 100% compatible. PC graphics cards back then natively supported DirectX 8 or DirectX 9, which FFXI uses. Graphics cards now support DirectX 10/11/12 natively, and use emulation (offloaded to the CPU) to process older DirectX versions. Also, my first gaming desktop in 2005 used a Pentium 4 at 3.3 GHz for its one hyperthreading core. Now you have 4+ cores in a processor, but they are 1-2 GHz each, mostly, so they are actually slower to process unless an application can use multiple cores. Especially in laptops, for energy conservation, you have slower cores. Desktops can have 3+ GHz cores, because you don't have the concern of a battery.
Comparing another game from another year to FFXI isn't a fair comparison. Games that are more graphically intense are often designed to use the newer hardware.
That is understandable. But as you can see from my photos, there is nothing consuming any major memory or cpu cores.
Well i uninstalled and reinstalled the full game. It has fixed the problem. YAY I can play again.