Possible to use more computer resources?

[Soukyuu]

However when i am in Gridania i notice some slow down. It only happens in Gridania, im assuming because Gridania is full of tress and foliage and that is harder for my graphics card to do? im not sure. Anyways even when i am there and i see that my computer is slowing down, i look at my computers resources. And I have an octo core and the game is only using 10% of my CPU and only 1.5 GB's of RAM

Try monitoring your GPU load, if it goes down on slowdowns, then that's where the problem lies. SE has over 100k small files laying around your HDD, and HDDs suck when it comes to rapidly accessing them.

I have a 260GTX and I had this problem, it got fixed after I got a fast SSD.

FFXIV currently cannot use more than 2 cores of a CPU or more than one GFX card's capabilities.

What? Where did you get that from. My CPU load is evenly distributed on all 4 cores and as long as you play in fullscreen, you can use SLI/Crossfire (and that's not a limitation of FFXIV)

edit: only core-related problem i remember is not being able to run ffxiv on HEXAcore CPUs, but that was fixable by a custom start switch.