What causes -you- to lag?

[Alhanelem]

Nothing causes me to lag...

[Mirage]

What causes me to lag?

Connecting via my 3G phone.

What causes my framerate to drop, however, would be when I try to turn up the image quality to something resembling a decent game. Such as 4x draw distance and 8x antialiasing at 1920x1200 and HQ shadows instead of circular dots.

[Demon6324236]

Any party event involving more than 6 players, namely VW, worm parties when people are grouped up, and Legion. Also occasionally lag in PJ due to amount of people.

[Vandheer]

Port Jeuno causes me to lag like crazy. :X The only "lag free" part of Port Jeuno is the corner opposite the home point crystal. Its where i hide to make my shouts/yells. x]

[Tsukino_Kaji]

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.

If you purchaced the PC solely for FFXI, then I conjecture that you sir, are the deck chair. To reinterate from the previous posts, it's your fault for not having a system and/or ICP that's not "up to snuff." The game runs perfectly fine, no lag what-so-ever if oyu have a good system.

Nothing causes me to lag...

I thought galka lag by default.

[Vagrua]

Cut scenes, Weapon skills being spammed all around me, Confluxes, Lamps, Avatars and some NMs cause my computers screen to glitch or freeze up at times. I don't have a great pc though and I don't use any dat replacements like others do.

[Caliana]

First off, thanks for all of the replies so far.
I guess it sounded better in my head then on paper, but what I wanted to get at was that there are certain objects in the game, typically the glowing ones, that tend to put an unnecessary burden on even some of the newest processors. I posted my computer specs earlier in the thread and like I said with that machine I really don't see most of the things I described in the op. I bought that laptop in '08 and it still ran rather well except for certain instances. My ISP does fine as well and I rarely disconnect do to loss of service.

However, my second laptop does experience the frame rate drops when around these objects and typically only then. Since we have a good grasp on what objects are causing this, I figured it would be helpful to point that out and suggest a fix that would benefit most players, because less work for the processor is better in general even if you don't actually see a drop in performance on the high end rigs.

[Arcon]

If you purchaced the PC solely for FFXI, then I conjecture that you sir, are the deck chair.

I'm not sure whether that means that you agree with me or not, either way, it's unrelated to what I said.

To reinterate from the previous posts, it's your fault for not having a system and/or ICP that's not "up to snuff." The game runs perfectly fine, no lag what-so-ever if oyu have a good system.

You don't know what "fault" means. That's like saying it's the Sandy Hook kids' fault they got shot because they knew school shootings can happen and they should have stayed at home instead. Just because there is theoretically a way around something that you didn't do or know abot does not mean it's your fault. It's the fault of the people who caused it, and that wasn't either the kids or the user in this case. It was a lunatic and SE, respectively.

[Mirage]

I find it mind boggling that some people seriously believe that it is all right for a 10 year old game to require a computer that is 100 times stronger than what was available when the game was new in order to play it at decent framerates.

If Battlefield 3 was like FF11 you would need four GTX 690s in quad-SLI and a 5 GHz 16-core CPU to run it at 30 fps and medium graphics settings. But hey, all you gotta do is buy a PC that doesn't suck, right?

[Logandor]

I don't know about some but sense the last update I have been having glitches and weird lag in aby mis. coast around the zone boss pop site and bridge near by. My friend was on the xbox tonight and said he saw the weird glitch as well when the zone boss disappeared where it was an suddenly spawned right on top of where we were waiting to fight it. Was like wtf that normally happens in aby ul. range not here. >.> <.< Any one else had these problems of late sense the last update?