Does anybody else have this problem? I don't think it's my graphics card because I have turned down the settings to a medium setting and the game runs smoothly, even when I'm doing behest or something that involves running around with lots of people.

What happens is whenever I run into a city - I'll use Limsa Lominsa as an example since this is the last place I was today - the whole game literally just freezes up badly from lag. I would swear that the framerate goes down to 1FPS for about a minute. I'm pretty sure it's not related to the number of characters that needs to load, because this happens in Gridania and Limsa Lominsa too (I know Ul'Dah is crowded).

Just now, in LL it happened about when I ran into the area where the Chocobo is (you know, where that fountain is, and then there're the stairs that go up to the adventurers' guild) and it was running smoothly, but then just froze up to that 1FPS speed. I ran around for a bit until it got smooth again, and there weren't even any characters, except for the NPCs that are normally there. I ran up the stairs to the guild and it was also empty; there were 2 or 3 player characters up there.

I'm wondering if this can be fixed. Since it doesn't seem to be related to the number of players in the area, I'm thinking it has something to do with the city itself or maybe the loading mechanics in these areas are just poor. I have no idea what the real situation is, but can it be fixed? It happens every time I enter the cities.