What causes -you- to lag?

[Caliana]

I'm making this thread in the hopeful attempt to perhaps provide some simple suggestions to the dev team that actually have a reasonable chance at getting implemented.
I think I can speak for most of us when I say that if a post was made saying an update to directx was seriously being looked into I would be overjoyed, but since that is unlikely at this point in time I want to find some simple things that would help. When the last update gave the option to switch between new and old icons on the spell list, which I assume are simple dats, I wondered if this would be possible to do for some of the actual ingame models.

So with that being said, what makes you lag?
Here are a few examples for me personally:

1. Confluxes.
I have terrible lag anytime I go near one of these. I'm no specialist in graphics, but I hear the glow effect has much to do with this even though I don't know why.

2. SMN Avatars.
Most likely the same reason as the confluxes, although not quite as bad for me unless there are multiple smn at once. Fenrir and Diobolos seem to be the worst for me for some reason.

3. Telepoints.
Again, likely the same issue.

4. Random spots in, of course, Port Jeuno and Port Sandoria.
I always assumed it was the larger number of people gathered there, but even with the character loaded bar at its lowest setting it still seems to skip and stutter at times.

5. Certain AoE Fire spells.
Fire seems to be the worst for me, at one point way back when they would almost lock up my whole pc, but driver updates have calmed that for the most part.


While the usual explanation is update drivers ect. All of these cause issue still except for the fire spells. So, if we are not likely to get an update to the core engine or what not would it be possible to get some simple dats we can switch via the control panel perhaps that would be easier on the current one?
Just throwing it out there, what does everyone think?

[Frankbrodie]

Nothing..

Pay 3k for your machine. (3 years ago fyi so it's hardly state of the art) and it lags NEVER..

I dual box with two accounts and all of the above lag my second comp yes.
But nothing lags my main comp. So it's your fault. And yours alone.

Not trying to be inflammatory. Just saying. A 3 year old machine which was built by Jesus himself (and it was) does not lag ANYWHERE in FFXI.
Buy a new machine. BUY IT NOW!!

Oh and a quick btw.. This is UK 3k price. so 4.5k to the US users sorry.

[Caliana]

Nothing..

Pay 3k for your machine. (3 years ago fyi so it's hardly state of the art) and it lags NEVER..

I dual box with two accounts and all of the above lag my second comp yes.
But nothing lags my main comp. So it's your fault. And yours alone.

Not trying to be inflammatory. Just saying. A 3 year old machine which was built by Jesus himself (and it was) does not lag ANYWHERE in FFXI.

I'm curious what specs your machine has. In any case, I came up with this while my main laptop was in the shop and I was playing on my old one. At the moment I have no interest in building a desktop as it doesn't fit well with my current needs, but my normal laptop is:
Dell XPS m1530
T9300 Core2Duo Processor @2.4Ghz
4 Gig Ram
Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT w/256 mb
Windows 7 pro
OCZ vertex2 SSD

I bought that laptop in '08 and it was still running strong up until a couple weeks ago. I ran the game at 1280x800 overlay and background (my max screen res) and had little to no lag in regards to the above, except for a few weird glitches with bird/wyvern wings flashing and armor kinda glitching.

I figure though, people who have such a pc have no need to change anything, but for people that have older machines the option would be rather nice to not need to worry about it anymore.

[Antanias]

Lately it's fishing, I seem to slow down a LOT for some reason.

[Krashport]

Yeah this is a cheap build, But it will surely play 11 on full w/o skips and stutters. As for lag, You might want to check with your ISP. I didn't bother adding speakers, keyboard, mouse or monitor. Grand total seems to be just under $600.00!

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[Doombringer]

alliances, or other situations with lots and lots of people packed in tight (port jeuno) but i play on a laptop with relatively high settings. otherwise i'm usually pretty good.

oh, and itunes. if i have itunes running in the background that makes it worse.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Nothing..

Oh and a quick btw.. This is UK 3k price. so 4.5k to the US users sorry.

Exactly what I did.
Also...
Get better internet.

[Arcon]

So it's your fault. And yours alone.

Wrong, it's SE's fault for poorly coding fluxes and similar constructs. A ten year old game should not require a PC that costs more than a used car to run properly.

Also, if you buy a 3k PC for FFXI you have the brains of a deck chair. This is the worst advice I've heard anyone give someone else on these forums.

[Kincard]

Wrong, it's SE's fault for poorly coding fluxes and similar constructs. A ten year old game should not require a PC that costs more than a used car to run properly.

Exactly! This game came out in 2002. Just think about that for a second.

That's the year Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights and Warcraft III came out. It would be ridiculous to buy a 1k PC for any of those games, let alone three times that amount.

[Eri]

Whitegate causes me to lag....

I can play 14 an 11 at the same time... but once my 11 char is in Whitegate, it starts to lag a bit.