Cast bar shaky...

[Warchild_Zek]

Does anyone else have this problem? The cast bar rarely goes from start to finish smoothly, it stutters a lot along the way. I've been searching but cant find a post or video about the same problem. I'm worried that its significantly hurting my DPS.


I have decent cable internet (best available) and live fairly close to Quebec where I heard the NA servers are located.

[FAVisceglia]

Pretty sure this is because the cast bar isn't just an animation – the progress bar actually validates against the server, and as we all know, the client/server asynchronism in this game is unjustifiably bad.

If it's any consolation, that cast bar has nothing to do with your actual casts anyway. The best example of this is when summoning your chocobo / mount. The cast bar finishes, you move, and the cast cancels. The actual "cast" is not registered until the whistling animation completes, which happens after the cast bar fills.

In other words, don't pay much attention to the cast bar. It's the animations that matter in this game. For better or worse.

[SugarPeanut]

I cannot agree about the animations being that thing that matters becuz sometimes when I get into really laggy and crowded FATES all of my skills are fozen on the screen and my char is stuck in a gliding/levitation type poses moving around. but my FC tells me that they can see me doing things just fine ( even tho im blindly doing it haha ).

[Warchild_Zek]

Thanks for the replies. Figured out I just had my graphic settings to high. Haven't had a decent gaming PC in a long time and I overestimated what it could handle. Also I didn't really notice the drop in performance other than the cast bar, its not like the framerate was horrible, just some minor slowdown here and there. Guess I'm just used to really crappy PC's.