Quote Originally Posted by Shipp View Post
That's not just Fraps making it stutter, because it would constantly be doing that. That looks just like the stuttering that a lot of people are suffering from in cities, albeit not as bad. You've got stuttering while you're walking down the main street, and that is a problem when it's like that for a lot of people who exceed the recommended specs and are playing on low.

I'd also like to know what your specs are, because they, quite obviously, far exceed the normal player's since it cuts down stuttering by that much. I'm also not new to MMOs. Been playing them for 10 years. Guess what happens on PC MMOs that don't use a console's engine. You update your hardware and things get better. Guess what happens on an FF MMO. You update your hardware and you see little to no difference. Go Fraps yourself running through Whitegate or Jeuno. An FPS drop is normal. Stuttering like XI and XIV do is a server-side issue.
Yeah none of this could be caused by FRAPS trying to push XIV off the CPU which is already using 70-80% of it.

I'm going to go with not being very familiar with FRAPS if you think that stuttering isn't caused by it at 1920x1200 full size on a C2D E8400, it's choking on my dual core. Once again you are telling me that stuttering in the video is the game's unoptimized nature yet Aion, WoW and many others do the exact same thing without FRAPS recording.

Aion will actually stall briefly when a player gets close enough to be loaded, it's using the CryEngine. What you are pointing out in my video happens in 90% of the games out there that are not using the UE3 engines streaming, in fact its almost always far worse.

After XIV is finished loading new *anything* which takes under 5 seconds, any of the minor slowdowns stop existing. I just ran through the Battlecraft ward and disk activity wasn't going above 2 MB/s without any stuttering during that. If there is any stalls they only happen during my initial load after which there isn't anything. Once again, happens in far more than XIV.

You might also be unaware that HDD's suck at random reads.