Telepoints, Avatars, Magian Moogles, and Veridical Confluxes. A long-overdue topic.

[Dreamin]

It's due to FFXI using DirectX 8.1. Both Xbox 360 and PS3 actually handles this much better than any 'more modern' pc which by now are all on either DirectX 10 or 11 (depending on which graphics card you're using - both discreet as well as embedded card). On these newer machine, all the DirectX 8.1 are done by your CPU (or render in software). This is why a good CPU is much more important than your graphics card for this game. And it's also not a X number of core issue either but more a purely how fast can a single core of your multi-core machine run. This 'lag' happens to all 3 - Intel, AMD, or nVidia cards/chips.

[Camiie]

What lag? I'm guessing it must be an Nvidia or Intel problem because I don't experience any lag whatsoever near any of those entities, but I use AMD.

You may not get it from an Avatar or a Maw, but I think everyone gets it from a Conflux. Those will slow your framerate to a crawl. The closer the camera gets the worse it becomes. I also use AMD, so it's definitely not what you're theorizing.

[Jerbob]

I had this issue for a long time until I finally messed around in FFXIConfig for some unrelated problem. I think I reduced the resolution of my background overlay thing and fiddled with bump mapping; suddenly everything was much smoother. Of course I still get graphical slowdowns, but confluxes and avatars are infinitely better now. Perhaps trying these settings is worth a go?

I agree though, this really should not be an issue - plus having graphical slowdown effect my macro responses is incredibly irritating.

[Eric]

I actually had to downgrade my graphics drivers all the way down to the 2nd to oldest driver that I could find to make the game run better.

[SNK]

Yeah it's a directX issuse more then anything. They really need to update that mess so it stops locking people up so much.

[Theytak]

With my terribad lolintel graphics card, of that list, only the telepoint glyphs make me lag, and that lag ispretty bad. Avatars/Confluxes/Moogles don't cause any noticeable lag for me, except when everything does, but then it's an issue of everything causing lag. That said, they really should give us the option to turn off aura effects in our effects filter. Doesn't make any sense that we can't.

[Reiterpallasch]

I'd suggest a way to make ALL of that lag go away until SE gives an official "fix", but since most of the people here seem to think DAT swaps are the devil and that it destroys the game for everyone, I'll just keep my fix to myself and let the rest of you suffer through it or figure it out yourself.

After all, I wouldn't want to risk the banhammer for helping people get rid of lag right? After all, if you change how a flux looks, you're a dirty smelly botter.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

I'd suggest a way to make ALL of that lag go away until SE gives an official "fix", but since most of the people here seem to think DAT swaps are the devil and that it destroys the game for everyone, I'll just keep my fix to myself and let the rest of you suffer through it or figure it out yourself.

After all, I wouldn't want to risk the banhammer for helping people get rid of lag right? After all, if you change how a flux looks, you're a dirty smelly botter.

Only .dat swaps that fix an event. AKA Lamps labelled 1~6 is plain cheating.

[zataz]

personally i don't have lag issues and if i do then i just don't notice it.

[FrankReynolds]

They could just make the crystals / telepoints models stand still instead of spinning and fix most of this. I don't know what they would do about avatars though.