There seems to be something special in the way the Aht Urhgan (at least the city) areas as well as the Wings of the Goddess areas have been done. Using Wine to run the game on Linux, if I want to, I can produce a situation where there is a serious hit on the performance when viewing the horizon, so to speak. If I for example go to first-person point of view, and look down or up, the hit is gone. I first thought it was the sky itself, but it seems to be around the middle instead.

As others have pointed out, confluxi and such seem to be a bit special as well. As above, I can notice there is something different going on mostly at places such as the entry area of Abyssea - Misareaux/Grauberg. Perhaps it's due to the amount of NPCs in addition to the Maw and Conflux. Something like Abyssea - Attohwa, however, doesn't have that if I remember right. Looking back to the above, Grauberg is of WotG, but Mixeraux isn't, so it probably isn't connected that way. Or perhaps it is!

Shadows, as mentioned also, is one, nay, probably the most notorious performance blubb of them all.

I haven't been able to do that in older areas as far as I can remember. I've been meaning to test it on a weak'ish machine running Windoze, but meh... It's not that I have issues normally (even though I play on Linux), but if I want to, I can easily notice what things are bad, so to speak.

As for actual “lag”, things doing with the connection to the servers instead of graphical stuttering or slow-down, there are certain spots in the Aht Urhgan Whitegate where I almost always witness a character running with me stop, and jump much further away, such as in the centre with the fountain (as in, their position is not updated for a while, similar to if you lose the connection and everything stops, except it's just that one character (haven't really tested with multiples), and as far as I remember right now, the NPC that moves around there keeps moving at the time, though it does sort of sprint a little rather often). Not really an issue, as I have not noticed it in many, if any other spots, but it is rather peculiar fer sure!

All in all, I don't really have issues with the network even though I am rather far from Japan, in the Europe, which means there always is a bit of a latency to things. I was always impressed of how little it affected my game-play though. Of course there's a bit of a handicap on things like NM claiming of old, such as the Chabit, or Charybdis, as they call it.

Quote Originally Posted by Antanias View Post
Lately it's fishing, I seem to slow down a LOT for some reason.
Not sure if serious... but in case you didn't know, they intentionally limited the FPS while fishing due to the difference between console versus PC. ^^;