What causes -you- to lag?

[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.

[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?

[Tsukino_Kaji]

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.

Current gaming requires it, the fact that you still play FFXI is coincidental.

[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?

[Mayoyama]

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?

Nope... not even while dualboxing (and a 4yr old PC)

[Jackstin]

Sometimes if I've got like 4 or 5 tabs open in Google Chrome I'll lag in FFXI, other than that, never.

I have a 5 year old Dell laptop. I did however upgrade the ram, I think its now at 3 Gig from 1. Cost me about 15 pounds and it made a ridiculous difference. That's the only advice I can give

[Imakun]

Shadows. My PC hates XI's shadows for some stupid reasons.
I figured out how to prevent FPS drops around Confluxes/Crystals/whatever and for me it was the type of AA filter. I had to set it at Multisample AA instead of like Adaptive or Supersample. This is with an ATI card by the way.
I can pump up the resolution just fine and it won't bother me in any way. I can also play games like FC3 or AC3 or even Crysis at almost top quality.
BUT
when I turn on XI's "high" shadows option.. the game slows down to like 2 FPS. I have no idea why.

FYI I bought this PC to play XIV back in the days, payed like 1.3k€ for it. As I already said, I can play recent games just fine at the highest settings but noooo I can't have shadows on XI for whatever reason.

[Mirage]

It's obviously because you don't have 50 video cards in your PC, Imakun, as mentioned by the super tech savvy persons earlier in the thread.

[Yrusama]

Too many people in one place, like most of you. Full alliances. Otherwise my computer runs it all well enough. I suppose my overstuffed MH causes me to lag, too. Is it sad to lag in your own MH?

[gothikka]

From what I've seen, the main thing that seems to cause this game to lag is the fact that it seems to only run on a SINGLE CPU core. Since I was curious, I enabled the "windowed mode" option in the FFXI config and ran the game, go into a crowded area, such as Port Jeuno, then open up the Windows Task Manager, go into the performance tab and notice that only a SINGLE CPU core is getting slammed at 100% usage (my comp is using an Intel Corei7 CPU), while the other cores are hardly, if any, being used at all.

This game obviously needs to be recoded to fully utilize at least Dual Core, or Quad Core systems, and for goodness sakes, actually USE THAT GRAPHICS CARD as well, (notice very little usage on the GPU end)

It's very sad that I could run FFXIV 1.x at nearly 60 FPS on high settings (With DoF, and AO turned off), but have Framerate problems with this game.

As for Network lag, I'm practically lag free in that department, just framerate lag is the big problem with FFXI