Had anyone else noticed absurd animation and UI lag lately?
It happens inconsistently, though when it does happen, it tends to not go away for a good while. Here are some examples:
- I will run up to a mob and stop moving to attack, but my character will continue the running animation. I can still attack the mob, as the combat text displays damage and it seemingly loses health. The GCD activates as well. The dotted lines indicating combo abilities do not appear, but I'm unsure if the combos are actually activating and just the UI element is not displaying. I'll continue to attack the mob, but my character will not display any attack animations, only continuing the running animation.
- In a similar vein, sometimes I will attack a mob, but my character will simply freeze in the battle-ready stance while attacks go off. This has the same problem of combo notifications not displaying. Occasionally, the animations will go off after the monster is already dead, which is funny to watch but frustrating.
Note that this happens for both combat and DoH/L classes. Sometimes it's just an animation delay of 5 or so seconds; sometimes the animation simply never happens. My latency is pretty average (~120 ms or so), and there's no delay in the actual damage going out or in the activation of the GCD, so I don't think this is an internet connection problem. It's just the animations themselves.
Possibly related, I've noticed extreme delays in UI elements loading, as well as extreme delays in NPCs noticing I'm trying to talk to them. I game with my fiance, and oftentimes we'll run up to an NPC to turn in or pick up a quest or whathaveyou, and he'll be able to interact immediately, while I have sometimes sat around for over a minute waiting for the NPC to even just load on my screen.
In case it's something with my computer, my system specs are:
i5 2500K
GTX 680
8 GB ram
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 motherboard
So, am I alone in this, or has anyone else experienced similar problems?
[edit] >_> The MB was a typo. Sorry.
Serious animation/UI lag
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09-30-2013, 02:13 AMNaunetSerious animation/UI lag
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09-30-2013, 02:20 AMAlhanelem
Have never seen this.
But if you really have 8MB of RAM, i'm not sure how you're running the game, because that's about how much memory my computer had in 1990. -
09-30-2013, 02:25 AMGilbertLapinePreeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty sure he meant GBQuote:
Originally Posted by Alhanelem
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09-30-2013, 05:13 AMNaunet
I am in the process of backing up all my stuff so I can wipe and re-install my OS, at the urging of my fiance and a friend. Not sure if it'll help, but at the very least it will tell me whether or not the lag is on my end or is a problem on Squeenix's side.
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09-30-2013, 06:24 AMMorta
Same issues I have on both my gaming rigs (one being top end the back up rig being around your system specs) .. There is a massive thread about it in the Tech section. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/67336-Runtime-Error. I also thought It was my end at first but it's obviously not. Lots of us are having similar issues to different degrees.