Hello to everyone on the site. I hate for my first post to be a cry for help, but I have been browsing the site for a while now, and there seems to be very knowledgable people registered, so...
Here is my question, lol.
(I apologize in advance if this post is in the wrong thread)
From my knowledge of my own system (its a custom built), I should have no problems running FFXI at peak settings and experience no issues with it. However as I am playing the game, I experience major slowdown when I am fighting and/or in heavily populated areas. This occurs even if I take my settings almost all the way down. I suspected it might be a memory issue, so I upped my RAM to 2 gigs, but still no luck. I do not think it is my video card, since the game looks beautiful, it just lags at the most unopportune times. Any help would greatly be appreciated.
Specs:
BOARD: (Intel® Desktop Board D101GGC) microATX
Support for an Intel® Pentium® D Processor in an LGA775 socket with an 800 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor in an LGA775 socket with an 800 or 533 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel® Celeron® D Processor in an LGA775 socket with a 533 MHz system bus
Two DDR SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
Support for DDR 400 MHz and DDR 333 MHz DIMMs
Support for up to 2 GB of system memory
ATI* Radeon* Xpress 200 Chipset
AwardBIOS* for Intel resident in the 4 Mbit FWH
SMSC* SCH5017 Legacy I/O controller for hardware management, diskette drive, serial, parallel, and PS/2 ports
High Definition Audio subsystem using the Realtek* ALC861 audio codec
Integrated ATI* Radeon* X300 based graphics
10/100 Mbits/sec LAN subsystem using the Realtek* 8101L LAN adapter device PROCESSOR: (Intel Corporation / Intel® Boxed Celeron® D Processor 351 (3.2GHz) Intel® Technology Execute Disable Bit; Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T) Celeron® D Processor 351 3.2GHz 90 nm Process Technology 64-Bit Technology Socket 775 533MHz Frontside Bus 256KB Level 2 Cache Intel® designed thermal solution (Fan, Heatsink, Clip Assembly) VIDEO CARD: (PNY Technologies / GeForce 7300 GT 256MB PCI-E x16 Video Card) OpenGL ICD, Direct Draw, DirectVideo, Direct3D, DirectX DirectX 9.0 nVidia GeForce 7300 GT Graphics Processor 256-Bit 350MHz Core Clock Speed Dual 400MHz RAMDACs 256MB DDR2 Video Memory 333MHz Clock, 667MHz Effective 128-Bit 10.66GB per second 8 Pixel Pipelines (8 Pixel Shader Processors) NVIDIA CineFX 4.0 Engine; NVIDIA Intellisample 4.0 Technology; Full Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 Support; True High Dynamic-Range (HDR) Rendering Support; NVIDIA nView Multi-Display Technology; Advanced Adaptive De-Interlacing TV Video Output NVIDIA TV Encoder (NTSC, HDTV) (1) VGA 15-pin Port; (1) Digital Video Interface (DVI) Connector; (1) Video Out Port (Composite, Component, S-Video) 6-pin PCI-E Power Connector Microsoft Windows 2000, XP PCI Express x16 Interface 300 Watt Power Supply And once again, I have two gigs or RAM on my mobo.
Could this also be a server problem? I denied the fact that it could be, because I was at a LAN party at one time, and the other guys I was playing with experienced no slowdown whatsoever. They were never more than a couple steps away from my character either so... ><
And help at all would be greatly appreciated, sorry for the long first post.
