Quote Originally Posted by Delsus View Post
From what I have seen that sort of choppyness seems to be because so much data needs to be pulled from the HDD, I have seen people say that a SSD stops it, because a SSD is alot faster than a HDD, but it could partly be network related as well.
SSD doesn't fix choppiness. Using a 50 GB OCZ Vertex II with only OS and FFXIV installed and I still have choppiness, all the time, with graphics set to "Standard" across the board. Especially during weather effects. Rest of my PC is of similar quality (Radeon 5850, 3.2 Q9550, 8 GB RAM). I can run anything perfectly except FFXIV.