Hi all, I recently came back to ffxi after a 5 year break, the game is wonderful, but in the 5 years I upgraded my PC, and the game runs pretty terribly, especially in crowded areas or god forbid during events. I've had the game lock up numerous times, especially trying to click on an NPC or JA soon after entering a zone. Sometimes the game will unfreeze if I try to end it via Task Manager, other times I have to hard end it and re-open the game. The rest of my PC does not freeze up, only ffxi. It's so frustrating even running through Upper Jeuno will lag spike a bit. During events, it's literally freeze > unfreeze if I'm looking at all in the direction of the battle. I tried logging in through non-windower, and it seems smoother running through Jeuno and casting on myself, but haven't tried this for an event since I use gearswap. Below are my stats and some other info that may be helpful:
System:
Windows 7 Home Premium
AMD FX 41310 Quad-Core Processor 3.8 GHZ
16GB of Memory 2x8gb sticks
AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series 2GB Video Card
Samsung HD501LJ 500GB 7.2K SATA 3.5" HDD
100mb/s hard wired internet connection
Attempted Troubleshooting:
- Updated video card drivers - THIS MADE IT WORSE, I had to roll back
- Lowered FFXI frame rate and most settings to the minimum, this really did not make any difference, even with all players on static (naked) gear. Still major lag spikes.
- Removed a few windower addons, I saw Highlight crash based on lack of memory, so unloaded that.
- Upgraded to the newest version of stable Windower
- Close web browsers during events, still lag spikes like a SOB
- Ran FFXI Benchmark, both finished videos with No problem, Low was a score of 8700 High was a score of 6586
Nothing has made a difference
Here are some of my windower settings:
<settings>
<autoload>
<addon>Distance</addon>
<addon>aecho</addon>
<addon>craft</addon>
<addon>DressUp</addon>
<addon>enternity</addon>
<addon>FastCS</addon>
<addon>findAll</addon>
<addon>GearSwap</addon>
<addon>instaLS</addon>
<addon>itemizer</addon>
<addon>PetTP</addon>
<addon>porter</addon>
<addon>rolltracker</addon>
<addon>shortcuts</addon>
<addon>Silence</addon>
<addon>targetinfo</addon>
<addon>temps</addon>
<addon>thtracker</addon>
<addon>TParty</addon>
<addon>update</addon>
<addon>distance</addon>
<addon>timestamp</addon>
<addon>capetrader</addon>
<plugin>Binder</plugin>
<plugin>ChatMon</plugin>
<plugin>Config</plugin>
<plugin>DelayMeNot</plugin>
<plugin>InfoBar</plugin>
<plugin>LightLuggage</plugin>
<plugin>StatusTimer</plugin>
<plugin>Tickle</plugin>
<plugin>Timers</plugin>
<plugin>WinControl</plugin>
<plugin>Guildwork</plugin>
</autoload>
<profile name="">
<consolekey>Insert</consolekey>
<windowmode>Window</windowmode>
<width>1680</width>
<height>1050</height>
<uiscale>1</uiscale>
</profile>
</settings>
FFXI Config Settings
- Overlay Graphic and BG Resolution: 1680x1050
- Menu Res: Nothing selected
- Texture Compression: Low
- Enable Bip Mapping: OFF
- Environmental Animation: Normal
- Graphics Stablization: ON
If you made it this far THANK YOU. Any ideas? I'm willing to try anything, even downgrade my system if I need to, this is absurd. My gut says it's a combination of video drivers (where do I find OLD drivers?) and Windower lag. Thoughts?