Stuttering graphical performance

[Sapphires]

one of my laptops (macbook pro with win7, that doesnt have integrated gfx) has crappy framerate now since the last update, they screwed something up in the client renderer.

Used to be able to run 2k x 2k background resolution and 1600x900 res and it was always smooth. Now I have to modify it down to run it at 1280x720 with a 1k x 1k background res and it still gets choppy.

Since the rendering performance drop seems to be related to lots of characters onscreen, i'm guessing that the shadow rendering for characters or something is still being processed now even though I have shadows turned off (with them not being visible).


I have run ffxi on this computer for years and never saw such a massive performance degradation until the last update. There is nothing else that ever gets run or installed on this machine besides ffxi.

[Kekero]

I've downgraded my graphics card driver and it seemed to remedy the issue a little. The game is now at playable fps with some lowered options. Still nothing like what my friend had, but I'm happy enough it's working better.