Sudden lag spikes and DCs on NA Data Centers?

[Luka_BlackRock]

Yea. finally Login fixed. But I'm in queue 18 ><

Still not able to log in. I get to character select- but I still error before it loads. But then again, looking at the map, I am right smack in the middle of the outage over texas.

[StayKruel]

Still can't get passed the Lobby error, doesn't even get to character select or anything. Click play, black screen, error, close. Every time.

[Elamys]

I was able to get in for a little bit, but disconnected and back to lobby errors once more.

[Geist]

I was able to get in for a little bit, but disconnected and back to lobby errors once more.

Back for my own report: it went the same way for me, everything seemed to go smoothly then - all of sudden - it fizzled over. Attempting to log back in as I write this.

[Luka_BlackRock]

So while I wait on level 3, I decided to do the benchmark. And lo and behold- I scored 12968 on the highest possible settings ^_^

[Luka_BlackRock]

So while I wait on level 3, I decided to do the benchmark. And lo and behold- I scored 12968 on the highest possible settings ^_^

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 12/9/2016 3:49:50 PM
Score: 12968
Average Frame Rate: 111.731
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 3.601 sec
Scene #2 10.916 sec
Scene #3 6.041 sec
Scene #4 5.077 sec
Scene #5 4.506 sec
Scene #6 2.344 sec
Total Loading Time 32.486 sec

DAT:s20161209154950.dat

Screen Size: 1280x720
Screen Mode: Windowed
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: High (Laptop)
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Enabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Enabled
-Real-time Reflections: Off
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: Normal
-Grass Quality: Normal
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Enabled
-Shadow Resolution: Normal - 1024p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x4
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+: Standard Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (14393.rs1_release_inmarket.161102-0100)
AMD FX(tm)-9590 Eight-Core Processor
32717.473MB
Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics (VRAM 3072 MB) 8.17.0010.1474

Benchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn (Windows version) and FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward (Windows version) will run on your system.

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Score: 12968 Extremely High
1280x720 High (Laptop) DirectX11 Windowed
AMD FX(tm)-9590 Eight-Core Processor
Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics
http://sqex.to/ffxiv_bench_na #FFXIV

[Stitches1974]

Can you change resolutions on your laptop? The 720P is the reason for the high numbers.

I wonder how well I'd score at 1440P on the benchmark.