Game stutters if there's players

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Slow HDD, i'd say. Installing the game to a fast SSD should get rid of most hiccups. I had the same problem even with 2 raptors in RAID0. I have an OCZ SSD now, and game runs really nicely, even when in a crowded city, like Ul'dah.

//EDIT: Oh right, the reason for stuttering, is simply that all the visible items, like weapons and armors other players are wearing, are loaded from your HDD. If you have a single HDD with your O/S and softwares, including FFXIV on it, you are having quite a hard time, due to quite limited search speeds and transfer capacity of a mechanical hard drive, compared to a SSD.

I'm sorry but that's just nuts. The game is poorly coded. I have games that require much more read such as oblivion with texture, distance quality and graphic mods and it's not near as bad as this.

I've read reports that people say stutter started to appear after patch 1.18, i can't tell it because i got the game this week. If this keeps like this Square will never fix the game, because you know, that's not with such a demanding game that they'll get more people, because most people who play MMROPGs don't have a nice PC because these games are not demanding, and with a PC like mine i should be able to run this at the max without any problems, but happens even with standard settings.

I can also play GTA4 (extremely poorly optimized port) with iCEnhancer and i don't have these problems, and there's always people and cars and stuff loading all the time.

I'm sorry if i offended anyone but this is completely dumb, people need to buy an SSD because square doesn't know how to code games for PC? God.


Best part is the requirements

[4500-5499] High Performance
Easily capable of running the game. Should perform well, even at higher resolutions.
[3000-4499] Fairly High Performance
Capable of running the game on default settings. Consider switching to a higher resolution depending on performance.

I can't run the game normally in any of those settings, hell i can't even run the game in standard without stutter.

No arrow keys can be bound, few graphic options, available graphic options always have the same performance (bad) no matter if they're on standard, low or high. Pathfinding while going down makes the unit shake. At least i could use my PS3 controller, but still. -_-

I'm trying so hard to play this game and i like it, but this stutter makes me really mad. I hope they optimize this stuff or else it won't matter at all how many updates they release if it's unplayable.