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Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thank you^^
I have suddenly experienced a very slow load up of FFXIV when I hadn't before, it takes awhile for character selection to load up then once selected it takes a good 2 minutes to load up the game, once I can see my character certain buttons like Esc, Return, Alt, Numpad - to access main menu take a little longer to load; though running about and turning camera buttons are immediate. This is the first time I have experienced this, before I didn't at all, it was absolutely fine.

Now I haven't done much else to the computer, it is brand new and from what I can remember; the programs I have installed inbetween the time it was fast then slow are these:
AntiCrash (I shall test the game with this off but doubt it is that).
Core Temp
HWiNFO64 (Basically monitors temp and fan rpm and I can hack the fan speed if I want to)
The harddrive is very clean, only used 10% of it's space.
I have however decreased the turbo mode on the cpu due to overheating problems however, I re-tested on and off, no difference which tells me it is something else.
I have a firewall but runs in the background and was on when the game ran fine.
There have been no FFXIV updates before this problem occured.
Anti-Virus/Malware is not running a scan in the background. Double checked.

Server connection might the problem?
My internet connection is fine, its fast and powerful and works fine on other online games.


Not much else I can think of, done regular windows updates.

My system is this:
i7 2630QM 4 core 8 thread 2Ghz
6Gb RAM
GTX 560M
SATA II HDD 7200rpm

Thank you, any ideas would be great.

Just wondered if anyone has the new Alienware M17x R3 laptop and plays FF14 on it, basically does it run it well? Are their any specific settings of ff14 that are optimum for the machine that users have discovered?
The only specs I increased were the RAM to 6gigs and a 750gig sata 7200rpm HDD - kept the already powerful GTX 560M that comes standard and the i7 four core intel processor (2620QM).
Thank you^^

(I'll obviously benchmark it once it arrives in the post but nice to know if anyone has some hands on experience they can share with me).

Just a quick question, I've struggled to find any information regarding it apart from a rumour. I understand FFXIV is in a "quantum-development" stage at the moment but would I be able to even join a server? It's currently free of charge monthly but heard that SE are not accepting new players as well until PS3 version is released? Can someone shed some light on this, please? I don't want to end up installing everything then unable to make an account.

I can buy the game from small retailers but heard also that SE have snatched it off the shelves for the time being?

Thank you.