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    Random fps drop in ffxi

    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.

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    Re: Random fps drop in ffxi

    your computer running other apps in the background?

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    Re: Random fps drop in ffxi

    I had the same problem, it was the wireless. I got a 50 ft cat5e and just strung it across the apartment to have a wired connection instead and the problem went away.

    When you use the internet you don't really see it, but wireless doesn't stream like a wired connection does, packets come in bursts for however long the interval is, and between bursts things that constantly require connection appear to lag for a couple seconds, then everything will snap back into place, like a dc'ing for 1 second. I haven't tested if any of the new wireless stuff is any better, but a linksys 54g router, with a linksys 54g card would do this constantly.

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    Re: Random fps drop in ffxi

    I was running firefox in the background at first but the lag pissed me off so I shut off everything but ffxi. Looks like the wireless was the problem... it's got much worse today. Time to get an ethernet cable...

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