Quote Originally Posted by Stormfur View Post
Good to see I'm not alone! But AFAIK all the NA servers are on the west coast.. even though the character login screen tells me it's excellent, it's definitely a slidefest with invisible enemies in the beginning of a match. Eventually it might even out but it seems like having more than maybe six or eight characters on screen at a time really mucks things up. I also have effects turned off but that's more for my sight than anything else!
I had this problem about 6 months ago. The first FL match of the day sometimes even I would disappear, and while I'm told I'm not very good at FL, this made me worse.

Then that PC died and I got a new one with a larger drive and decent GeForce graphics card and the problem went away. The only time I have any issues is when my upload speed goes to hell, which is fixed by a modem reboot.

Bottom line, I suspect 72 players in an instance is one of the most demanding bits of content on PC specs.