Quote Originally Posted by Trancery View Post
Kal that makes no sense...your computer is a BEAST! If I were to pay for everything I want it would be more than I could afford and it still wouldn't come close to your setup...

The last thing I want to do is buy computer parts and think it's going to be amazing and have FFXIV still suffer in FPS.

What kind of lag are you experiencing? examples? Is it framerate dips or having you perform an action and then it takes much longer for the action to actually happen? Are characters/npcs loading on your screen instantly or does it take a while for them to appear sometimes?
Well, I'm actually having two different types of performance loss. The one above is just general fps lag. As I move around the world, every 1-2 seconds my character will just grind along in a massive fps spike for a half a second or so. I rarely freeze entirely for any amount of time. Just constant fps spikes. It reminds me of loading up World of Warcraft and enabling like 150MB of addons in a 25-man raid. Even though my rig can handle the game, I still lag spike around because the client chokes on the addons even though my CPU and GPU resource usage is very low.

I'm also one of the hopeless victims of the rubberbanding lag people from some ISPs are getting. SE claims my ISP is throttling me and it's not their fault. My ISP claims they're not throttling me and it's SE's fault. So I'm stuck unable to play while these morons are locked in this standoff. I've done a million traceroutes and so on, but whoever's fault it is, there isn't a thing I can do about it anyway. I have the same issue about every six months in Warcraft after a patch when they change something. Blizzard blames Cox (my ISP), Cox blames Blizzard, and I have three weeks of lag until they get over themselves and unlock their horns and resolve the problem. The rubberbanding began (what a coincidence) immediately following a patch about three weeks ago, but SE claims no responsibility.