Wondering about game play, movement delays

[Alayer]

this one is a desktop.

[Evovenom]

this one is a desktop.

Oh, then just upgrade graphic card then. Yes, i'm 100% positive it's your video card, that's low card. It has to be stock one. My old laptop has that model which is why i assume it's a laptop.

[Alayer]

u sure, because just before jumping on the Server.. Koshua (with one chocobo) the movement runs great... then the server is like, S22 R53

[Alayer]

ugh.. i swear it's the send/receive ratio on the server.

[Evovenom]

I don't think you understand... i have a Desktop PC... not a laptop.

lol Yes, I barely saw your reply. i'm between other forums lol

4200 in a desktop or laptop still isnt enough, you need a better card. your cpu is decent enough.

[Alayer]

and... my wife made a char last night, and had no problem with movement, on the same server.

[Evovenom]

and... my wife made a char last night, and had no problem with movement, on the same server.

it can depend on many things. maybe FPS in areas if affecting your performance, perhaps its server lag BUT listen your video card is still bad for playing this game it's INSANE enough thats your running it

[Evovenom]

listen i'm going to go play crysis 2, but ask anyone in here about your pc, they will tell you that 4200 HD ATI is crazy to be even running this game, your cpu must be doing all the work. look into it if you just upgrade a video card and your set. good luck thats my 2 cents.

[viion]

Just out of curiosity have you changed your config for XIV? Turned things like Ambient Occlusion off, can you post some FPS results?

I'm moving house so my PC is all packed up so figured I'd try game on laptop, my Laptop is: i5 Quad 2.53ghz, 4GB Ram, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570. I run with the following specs: 720p, No AA, 6 GDQ, 1 BDQ, lowest Shadow detail (shows off ingame), Ambient/DoF/Cutscene all turned off, Hardware on, Texture boxes both Low. I cap top 30 FPS in towns and 40-50FPS when out doing leves on my own and no one is around. I also disabled sound device but i dont care much for sound on laptop but thats choice ofc, it wouldnt affect lag just load times (and by like 0.3 of a sec lol)

Hopefully my laptop spec and the settings will give you some idea, tho my laptop fans start going bonkers and sounds like an aircraft carrier lol.

When you pass Minimum you need to change the config to all Minimum settings, when it says Recommended the config will put you on "Recommended" specs, (or you can mess around yourself)

Looking here: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/

My PC Card 5770 gets a 1646 score, yours gets 143 lol im surprised if it could play 3d chess XD

Download the XIV Benchmark and see your score, my laptop pushes out a lousey 500 score on LOW and is barely playable can be very laggy when casting magic and in camps. My Desktop pushes out 3500 on HIGH but I have to turn shadows off or it dips down to 30 FPS a lot.

[Braydos]

Yeah mate you should definitely sell that laptop and get something else, I'm running XIV from Window's 7 (bootcamp) on my MacBook Pro and I'm having absolutely no problems at all.