Terrible lag - need help please

[MilkieTea]

1. Try defragging your hard drive.
2. Ensure you're running FFXIV on the hard drive and not on a slower external drive (like a flashdrive or SD card)
3. What's your ping like? This isn't your upload and download speeds. Ping essentially means how fast your device transmits information to a server and back again. If your ping is generally bad, it's gonna be worse in FF.
4. What are your laptop specs?
5. Try running the Shadowbringers benchmark. What does that give you?
6. Make sure you don't have files clogging up your downloads folder or Temp folder.

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Ok, my Shadowbringers benchmark performance score is HIGH with a dx11 score of 4600.