Well I just tried to get rid of the stuttering with a SSD. Deinstalled the game and installed it on the SSD. It's not the primary partition tho. It's just a data partition for now. On a side note, reinstalling the game didn't fix the directx crash stuff.

I couldn't switch the IDE mode in the BIOS to AHPI(?) can't remebemer the right letters right now :P My windows kept crashing everytime it tried to boot.

Tomorrow I will kill my windows, install the naked Win 7 on the SSD + FFXIV on it and every other application goes on the secondary partition. Since I will do a tabula rasa, I hope that will fix some issues.

Boooo. Gotta get all my serial keys together now >< got damn it.

I'm anxious that the stuttering occurs cause of the RAM limitations and not the slow HDD poking... I doubt SE will change those RAM limitations >_>;