Quote Originally Posted by Frankbrodie View Post
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.