Macro activation slow on PC Client

Platform: PC
ISP: Mediacom
Type of Internet Connection: Cable
Internet Connection Speed: 20mpbs
Date & Time: Any
Frequency: Always
Character Name: Any
Race: Any
World: Any
Main Job: Any
Support Job: Any
Area and Coordinates: Any
Party or Solo: Either
NPC Name: N/A
Monster Name: N/A
Steps:
1. Press Alt or Ctrl on the keyboard
2. Wait up to 2 seconds for macro menu to appear
3. Macro menu appears after a delay.

Additionally, if you press, for instance, Ctrl+1 and release it before the macro bar appears, the macro will fail to activate. If you hold down the Ctrl button at least, the macro will complete when the bar appears.

This behavior is greatly exaggerated in densely populated areas.

Been that way since I first started in 2005 and I expect has always been like that. Damned annoying, clearly crappy software design which slaves keyboard response to some internal processing. The fact that the response ranges from instant to a couple of seconds (and all times in between) seems to me to demonstrate that reaction to the need to display the macro palette is being blocked by other rendering operations.

It takes a while for the macro bar to show up (which is annoying in itself), but hitting macros works without the bar showing in the screen for me. I tested it just now. However, often I will experience random macro failures, that seemingly have no correlation to anything. Just randomly doesn't activate.

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Originally Posted by Kraggy

Damned annoying, clearly crappy software design which slaves keyboard response to some internal processing. The fact that the response ranges from instant to a couple of seconds (and all times in between) seems to me to demonstrate that reaction to the need to display the macro palette is being blocked by other rendering operations.

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Got any idea if that processing is the reason why I've been experiencing FFXI hogging the keyboard when multi-tasking?

I made a thread about it awhile ago, no word at all from a rep - http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...keyboard-input

Greetings, Pentiki!
Thank you for posting your concerns about the latency that you have experienced with your macro activation. I realize how frustrating it can be to have any interruptions while playing, so I highly recommend voicing your thoughts about this at interruptions at https://support.na.square-enix.com/f...la=1&p=0&fo=41 . I also suggest contacting the SQUARE ENIX Support Center at https://support.na.square-enix.com/c...php?id=20&la=1 to see if they may be able to assist you with reducing the latency that you experience in the game, in general. I hope everything works out well for you. Thanks again for your participation!