every 2 or 3 minutes my fps will drop to 2 or 3 in any zone or area of ffxi, crowded or not. Just as randomly after a minute or so it will return to normal (29). Does not seem to be based on bard songs, or spells. I can be at 29 in whitegate and then warp and drop to 3 with only 2 people nearby. I'm on a laptop with some kinda fairly fast dual core processors, ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card and somewhat shaky wireless connection (but connection strength seems unrelated to slowdown). I run max settings available in the config program but no registry edits to improve further.
halp plz. do not want any more slowdown.