About ready to quit ....

[Idun_Midgardsormr]

I started out on Asura, killed that character and started again on Midgard. In between times, I levelled another character on Lakshmi and finally gave up on my Midgard character when I got major lag problems in the ToAH areas.

I'm not talking a second or so here, I'm talking 4-5 seconds after hitting the key before the toon goes into the rest position! I deleted and completely reinstalled FFXI, made a new character on a new server (Shiva) and started again from there. I'm now level 60BST and decided it was time to get my staging points done. Arrapagoe reef, I'm the ONLY player in the zone. I got aggro from a soulflayer so I sic carrie on it (pet was already out). The pet is still standing there when I died, then went on to attack the soulflayer for almost 10 seconds before despawning!!

I'm running a P4 3.2 gig with 2gigs of RAM, a 'POL approved" Nvidia video card with 128 megs VRam and over a quarter terabyte of disk space in arrays. My network connection is 8mbps cable and in the 'old' areas, I have no problems whatsoever! In the ToAH areas I drop to R0 in the moghouse! These areas are totally unplayable for me!

Any suggestions (other than just quitting) ?

[kiffkin]

Re: About ready to quit ....

I have a seven year old 1.2gig (AMD) PC with 512 RAM and an Nvidia 64meg graphics card and a massive 20gig hard drive - I think I can safely say that your system should be able to cope with ToAU. The only time I've had problems even approaching yours are in Beseiged with 700+ in zone, and even then it's about 3 seconds of lag. As far as I know, though, getting R0 in the moghouse (particularly in Whitegate) is entirely normal, as is taking several minutes to zone out of Al Zahbi after Beseiged.

The only thing I can think to suggest is trying an older version of your graphics driver (I'm assuming you've already checked your files).

[Idun_Midgardsormr]

Re: About ready to quit ....

Well, I downgraded my video drivers to a release 37 before the current one. That has relieved some of the problems, but I still get badly lagged there to the point that I can't fight since I can't pet-swap!

What really bugs me is that all of the new content goes into these areas, but SE makes no effort at all to update their software to the latest technology! Do they seriously believe that we're all still running FFXI on a PS2???

This game is getting sadder by the day ; ;

[Kirsteena]

Re: About ready to quit ....

Problem is the lag with 700+ people in Whitegate. The zones are meant to cope with 700 maximum, often there are over that. It probably isn't your system. I get R0 all over the place in whitegate, and I know my system is man enough for the job.

I refuse to level inthe mire/Mamool Ja Staging point area of the thickets anymore cause of the lag.

[Ameroth]

Re: About ready to quit ....

I think the lag issues you're having are network issues, not hardware issues. Lag experienced from your computer would be a slowed frame rate, whereas lag from internet issues results in movements taking too long, commands from you not occuring right away. When you tell your pet to attack something, that command gets sent to the server, processed, and the resulting animation(s) are sent back to your computer (over-simplified).

I would look into any network issues you may have: router, modems, ISP, local bandwidth etc. Are you by chance using a wireless setup?

[Aeolus]

Re: About ready to quit ....

Im on a 512k standard ASDL connection in the middle of the country so doesnt recieve the full speed when connected according to my ISP. I lag in whitegate a little and its not too bad but never in the other ToAU areas. ISP is crap for weekends from like 2pm till 10pm and 5pm till 10pm so I get lagged out anywhere but thats not FFXI fault

Sounds pretty much to me like you've already convinced yourself you want to quit though so not much point trying to fight it.

[Clever Ninja]

Re: About ready to quit ....

Check your router and make sure ports are forwarded for FFXI, I used to have the same problem when I started on the PS2, randomly getting R0 in towns.

[Pai Pai Master]

Re: About ready to quit ....

It's not you; a lot of people experience that problem.

It took me about 20 minutes to mule gear the other day for my Summoner because I kept R0ing. Unfortunately, there were about 750 people in Whitegate and it was just lagged to hell.

I wouldn't let something like that get to you, at least to the point of quitting.