Low FPS on NEW PC

[xSinful_Snake]

Server lag and latency can affect the response time for actions, but it doesn't automatically translate into affecting your FPS.

FPS is determined by the raw processing power and data transfer speeds in getting the data rendered on your screen. Remember, you monitor has a refresh rate, in most cases 60hz or better. So, you card has to continuously send all that data to your screen so it is displaying something. Even when NOTHING is going on, and no network data is being sent/received... you still have an FPS rating because yor card is refreshing your screen. Pull it up under configuration while on the Title Screen for a perfect example. The one that has Start, Opening movie, Configuration, Exit. The one that loops the FF anthem and if you let it sit long enough without starting the game it goes into "attract" mode and starts playing movies after a while. You may see it running 150+ FPS there if your VSYNCH is unlocked. It's not relying on the server for much of anything at that point, and there is little if anything to process either--so it's running full speed ahead. The same thing happens when you first zone and your screen is black.

Now, when your system doesn't have truly dedicated networking hardware and such (don't find many with NPU's anymore), then heavy network traffic can have an impact in a round-a-bout way because it is stealing processor time and such. This applies when you have 350 users huddling around the crystal in a Mongolian Clusterf*ck situation and your system is having to process all that extra character and custom texture data being pumped in through your network card. But the bogging down in that situation is because it is consuming local resources to process game data (CPU cycles, Memory bandwidth) that the system might otherwise use just for rendering. It is NOT because you are waiting on a response from the server to tell it when to render something on the screen... it's your system is bottlenecking somewhere because of the data overload in general.

THIS ^^

Take it from a former PS3 player, now PC player, this is why I stay away from Ul'Dah, Gridania, and Limsa Lominsa. I park my character in an outpost and only visit major cities to turn in greens for seals and selling materials.

My experience is that it didn't matter how high or low my fps, was, my attacks were correlated properly with the GCD in my abilities (2.42 seconds), and i only used the term lag for experiences when my character ran in place for 5 seconds then teleported 5 yalms in front of me. THAT is lag, not a low frame rate, though don't get me wrong, Frame rate is AFFECTED BY latency but is not DICTATED BY latency. A low latency can knock a normally offline 60fps down to 40 or 30fps instantly but again the Frame Rate is a local value, and not to be confused with the idea that BAD INTERNET = BAD FPS. This is a fallacy.

[Dj_Ash1983]

When you're gaming on a laptop, you might need to look for a gaming-grade ones from ASUS, MSI, and even Razer (their Blade Pro) but yeah those would tend to be kinda expensive.

As for the AMD FX processor not for gaming, that's not true at all. I have friends who use AMD FX processors and can still game like a champ. It just needs to pair with a GPU card that can deliver great performance. Just not that AMD APU ones, though coz they suck at graphics-intensive games like FFXIV.

Since the GPU card used is a GeForce GT640, yeah it can handle games at decent performance, but it can lose some of the graphics quality instead. And it'll be much worse if you're using a monitor more than 1336x768 screen resolution. I suggest you step it up to either GTX650Ti or Radeon HD7770/7790 if you're on a tight budget. Oh, Radeon HD7750 is also a good choice, but you might need to lower some of the graphics settings though.

[Boretalith]

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