Stuttering especially while in town.

[origamikitsune]

Apparently, FFXIV uses a lot of caching (to the point where some people will crash as they reach the 32bit memory limit on the cache file size) and so the stuttering is most notable 1.) when you first log in and it has to write everything to the cache file, and 2.) when you are in town presumably because there is more data there to cache; outside of town where the landscape is copy-paste a little more it isn't noticeable. The easiest fix (in theory) is to get a hard drive that isn't going to cause a choking point for the system. I run a beast of a haitachi drive, and I notice the problem for about 10-15 seconds when I first log in, but nothing beyond that. I have heard that some people who have switched to solid state drives do not have this issue at all.

[snibe]

yup I thought about a bigger hard drive, but with a baby on the way I can't really justify it for a game I play maybe once a week. we already invested 1700 in a new laptop for my wife to play (which is never does now) and 400 for some cpu and motherboard upgrades for me to help with the issue. Sadly it only helped a little due to my older sata hard drive.