What causes -you- to lag?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Catmato]

1. Confluxes.
2. SMN Avatars.

These, Magian Moogles, and Cavernous Maws. Everything with that glow effect causes it.

So it's your fault. And yours alone.

No it's not. A GTX560ti, Phenom II X4 955, and 8 GB ram should have no issues running a 10 year old game.

What causes my framerate to drop, however

Drops in framerate are still lag, just not network latency that the term has become common for.

Raptors

I had a similar problem with Opo-opos on my old system. I could never figure it out.