NPC's take way too long to load

As the title says. Before the patch they lagged behind a second or two at most which is not really that bad, however now its more like 1-2 minutes. This makes shopping in the wards damn near unbearable and simple questing more a chore than fun.

Any ideas on how to fix it or what the heck is wrong? its like I have been transported back to when the game first came out..

Oh forgot to mention, card is a AMD radeon HD 6450 and OS is windows 7, if any of that helps

Anyone? 0_0

You do not really give much information, the only thing we can see from what you are posting is that your graphics card is below the Minimum System Requirements.

What are the specs of the rest of your system, and especially, what hard disk and network connection do you have?

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Originally Posted by Loth

You do not really give much information, the only thing we can see from what you are posting is that your graphics card is below the Minimum System Requirements.

What are the specs of the rest of your system, and especially, what hard disk and network connection do you have?

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Not very tech savy so bear with me.

The HD its running off of is an 250gig Solid State HD
4 gigs of ram
CPU is an Intel core 2 Quad Q6660 2.4 ghz

As for the video card, I have really no idea whats up with it being below minimum specs, its a 4 gig card which is what i was told would be more than enough to run the game. as i said before not computer savy.

Thanks!

PS also running off a DSL 1.5 meg connection. Before it was 7 meg and still having issues.

I noticed this yesterday after i updated to 1.19a, i was doing a few quests running between towns on airships. Everytime i arrived at the airport either by the airship or elevator NPCs were taking over 30 seconds to load.

CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz BX80623I72600K
SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 – MAX IOPS Edition VTX3MI-25SAT3-120G
GPU: EVGA 03G-P3-1596-AR GeForce GTX 590 Classified
Network: Time Warner Cable
Network speed test: 8.04 MB/s down, 2.46 MB/s up

BlackPaneth,

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I have been having the same thing since returning a few days ago, they used to load a bit faster, maybe 20-30 seconds which I was ok with because I know my laptop isn't really high end, but it was capable of running. Now it takes about 2 minutes and makes questing a complete chore. Of you need your specs on Win7, right click My Computer, click the link next to the number in towads the middle of page, "Windows Experience Index", and then click "View and print detailed performance and system information" Can find all the info you need right there. Here is my system:

System
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Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
Model HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
Total amount of system memory 4.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2

Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 466 GB
Disk partition (C:) 240 GB Free (452 GB Total)
Disk partition (D:) 2 GB Free (14 GB Total)
Media drive (E:) CD/DVD
Media drive (F:) CD/DVD

Graphics
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Display adapter type ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Total available graphics memory 2302 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 512 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 1790 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.892.0.0
Primary monitor resolution 1440x900
DirectX version DirectX 10

Same problem

Platform: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
ISP: Frontier
Type of Internet Connection: Fios
Internet Connection Speed: 5 mpbs upload/19 mpbs download
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
CPU: Intel Core i7 920(2.66GHz)
Processor: 64 bit Quad-Core Processor
Memory: 9GB
Hard Drive: 1TB SATA 7200RPM
Date & Time: All the time
Frequency: All the time
Character Name: Hunnybunny Hari
Race: Dunefolk Lalafell
World: Rabanastre
Class/Skill Rank: ARC/50
Physical Level: 50
Area and Coordinates: everywhere
Party or Solo: Both
NPC Name:
Monster Name:
In-Game Time: All the time

isn't loading people more a HDD issue than anything?