Quote Originally Posted by origamikitsune View Post
Well, if you are in Ul'dah it is strange that you are getting lower FPS outside town than inside... in general. That isn't always the case though, and turning your background draw down more helps increase the chances of that changing. Regardless, the common bottleneck in this game that people don't know about is HDD. Whole lot of HD read/writes, and this game doesn't do it efficiently. Those huge lag spikes are probably caused by that. As for the generally low FPS, I'll say it again. You're running a mobility, and that's probably where the issue is. It doesn't matter how awesome the rest of the system is, you are running a GPU that is designed for laptops. Its not going to give you the best performance out there, and short of replacing it there isn't much you can do, imho.
Yeah it was Ul'dah. The other place was a remote location near the Isles of Umbra. The FPS thing makes no sense, maybe Fraps just lies.

HDD? As in Hard Drive? Not sure what my hard drive would have to do with this, could you provide some detail?

I'm confused about the graphics capabilities, this card was an UPGRADE from my old 2010 machine. I believe the old card was HD 5850 or something. Why would the new one have lower capabilities?