Quote Originally Posted by mdizzle4 View Post
laptop
That's most likely the problem Laptops can't draw the power needed to support modern graphics card functionality... If they did, your battery would drain within a few minutes while being plugged in ><

It is kind of strange though, I think animations would be processed outside of the gfx card... maybe corrupted data? How much RAM does your system have? Try grabbing the latest DirectX libraries, and, like oragami mentioned, drivers too. If all else fails, try reinstalling. Stick with us though! FFXIV is developing quickly into one of the better MMO's out there