Insane and unique load times

[Zaranghae]

I've never defragmented before but I don't see how that would help since the game is on a separate partition? I will definitely try this though.

Well I usually never turn off the laptop, just have chrome open with some word docs and FFXIV. I only close the lid and put it to sleep when I'm done for the day. I have pretty good specs and I've never changed the settings since I first started playing the game so I don't think it's the settings in-game. I use full screen. The laptop is sort of old actually, it went through some rough damage and I had to replace parts over the years. I basically use an i7 3rd gen with a GTX670M. It's not the best but I've been getting by with 40-50 FPS on high graphics. Either way I haven't done any part replacement or any changes to the settings/laptopsettings before I even started playing FFXIV. It just seemed that with every update, the load times would take longer and longer. I'm thinking it may be that I moved to a different world as well -> Famfrit -> Leviathan. But I don't think it's a lag problem

[Raist]

I've never defragmented before but I don't see how that would help since the game is on a separate partition? I will definitely try this though.

Well I usually never turn off the laptop, just have chrome open with some word docs and FFXIV. I only close the lid and put it to sleep when I'm done for the day. I have pretty good specs and I've never changed the settings since I first started playing the game so I don't think it's the settings in-game. I use full screen. The laptop is sort of old actually, it went through some rough damage and I had to replace parts over the years. I basically use an i7 3rd gen with a GTX670M. It's not the best but I've been getting by with 40-50 FPS on high graphics. Either way I haven't done any part replacement or any changes to the settings/laptopsettings before I even started playing FFXIV. It just seemed that with every update, the load times would take longer and longer. I'm thinking it may be that I moved to a different world as well -> Famfrit -> Leviathan. But I don't think it's a lag problem

OMG... Power that poor thing down once in a while. Windows is notorious for this. NTFS as well. Server versions are more tolerable of it, but desktops definately need a solid reboot periodically.