Hello, I don't post often here but I just wanted to throw up a thread and get the opinion and experiences of others on game performance.

Whenever I am playing FFXIV I feel, hear, and see the effects of my computer being strained to its maximum usage. Live streaming music is affected and lagged out as an example. My computer is definitely able to run the top games at the best or just below best settings, I built it this year and spent around 1200 dollars getting the hardware together.

I ALWAYS run into many different types of video lag in the game, they seem to be coming from the game loading other players, or objects in more cluttered areas, like Ul'Dah. However, its not a small amount that happens only when I enter the city.. it happens ALL THE TIME in the city, and shows up in other areas of the world as well where I am simply just running around exploring or fighting stupid repeated mobs (i digress).

So whats the deal? I know to expect a few troll posts of "your comp sucks" but I can assure you that isn't the problem. I noticed a very popular and surprised thread discussing the issue of character pathing being bugged and super sub par, but I think this is another subject that needs to be addressed as well. Is there some way SE can work on general lag spikes in towns, draw distance, and simple things like that which effect game play on all levels?

I hate forcing myself to play, and then forcing myself to ignore the giant lag spikes and super low draw distances.

Please feel free to comment and tell me about your thoughts on this issue! I would love to console in others' similar pains or at least find a false sense of hope in their fanboyism =]

thanks
-LM