My FIXV became almost unplayable after the December update. Everything seemed to be lagging but most of all controlling any movement by mouse was impossible. Moving with the keyboard also had problems.

I could be running along and try and change direction and nothing happens, then the screen stutters and then jumps to the new direction. Attacking could also be a lottery waiting for skills to activate and using the menus was painful.

So, I just stopped playing until in April I tried again and all lag seemed to have gone away.

Then last week it returned and I feel I have tried everything to find the cause. Lowered graphics setting, monitored connects, all to no avail.

I live in South West Australia and am nearly the same time zone as Japan and my ping to the Japan is about 170. I have monitored my ping to the Japanese addresses using Pingplotter and there are no adverse drop outs of connection occurring. I play AION using German servers with no problems at all even though my connection is traveling at least 3 times as far.

I have a homebuilt
I7 860 stock speed.
8gb Ram
Win 7 64 bit
Nvidia GTX 580 1.5gb

I use an ADSL2+ connection running at about 1015 upload/10400 kbps download

When running FFXIV my processor runs at about 18-25%, my graphics card runs at about 85% at a temp of 65-75 degress.

At the moment I just can not figure out what has changed to cause this. As I have said, it has worked much better in the past. At this stage my FFXIV is once again unplayable.

Any suggestions would be warmly received.