hi all,

i bought a low budget laptop, (i3-3217u, geforce gt 740m and 4 gb ram) just for ffxiv and playing it with low graphic settings.

well i have this issue:
despite the good benchmark results of the game (3500 laptop high / 6100 laptop standard) in moderate crowded area (mor doha, uldah market or during FATEs) the gpu load drops badly to 30-40% and i get like 10 fps.

in other areas i have 60-70 fps and full gpu load, the game goes very smooth.

i wonder why the game is unplayable with those settings, i have LS mates that play very well with laptops worse than mine (i.e. i5 with mobility radeon 5450.) is there any kind of bottleneck on my laptop?

i had the same issue on a i5-2410, geforce gt 540m and 4 gb ram (borrowed from a friend)

is there anyone experiencing that?

thanks in advance.