Game Lags or Freezing like crazy

[Zenaku]

I updated my Graphics card Yesterday

Display Mode:
Windowed
Window Size
1280x960
Multisampling
No AA
Drawing Qualitys
Standard Everything

Graphics
Checked: Ambient Occlusion
Unchecked Depth of Field
Unchecked Disabled Cutscene Effects
Checked Enabled Hardware Mouse Cursor

Texture Quality Standard
Texture Filtering Standard

Sound
UnChecked Disable Sound Device
Checked Play Sound when application is in background

Font Settings
UnChecked Use Windows Font Systems

Ok i see your issue please unchecked Ambient occlusion that is not working 100% for ffxiv maybe in 2.0. Depth of field work ok but does suck a lot of FPS like for my 450gts it work fine but my screen only 1440x900.

you can also leave the background drawing quality andgeneral drawing if you like standard or 1 below high is fine becuase that does not really make much of a diff.

The texture quality should be fine at highest setting you can even add Multisampling x2 if you like

test out the game first without Ambient Occlusion that is your issue right there i bet.