What causes -you- to lag?

[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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[Windblade]

I thought that even the FFXI servers were artificially limited to a 56k output to make the game playable over dialup. I normally play over dialup for faster response times when drawing a sword or interacting with doors and NPCS, but even when I play over a 1.5 Mbps satellite connection (ignoring the expected latency), I've noticed no improvement in lag. It could mostly be a hardware issue. I'll find out in a few days since today I'm expecting delivery of a new motherboard, CPU, and memory. Though I'm on a temporary crap build that's even older than the rig that died (old rig was an Abit Fatal1ty AN9 32x, AMD Athlon II 64x dual core 4200+, 2GB of DDR 800, GeForce 7950 GTOC), I'm replacing the retired Fatal1ty with an Asus Crosshair V Formula Z, AMD 6300 FX Six-Core, 16GB of DDR3 2133, and a GeForce GTX 650, which is not that much more powerful than the GeForce 7950 GTOC, but it's almost twice as powerful in a couple of ways (memory bandwidth and pixel fill-rate), and way more than twice as powerful in one way, that being texture fill-rate. Added to the faster CPU, I'll be able to tell whether the lag is caused by not receiving data quickly enough from the game server or the old hardware. I'll be using the 7950 GTOC until January 8 when the new video card arrives; I ordered it a few days after the rest of the hardware.

[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.

[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.

[Midorikaze]

I get the most lag in Whitegate, and Al Zahbi. Mainly the route between the spawn point (where you end up after paying the 300-gil warp fee in your nation) and the Sanction NPC in Whitegate.

Al Zahbi is a given, as half the battles during Besieged are over before the PCs and NPCs even load in. =)

[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]