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Horrible mouse lag on the patcher...
davmac22
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Anyone else get the horrible mouse lag on the patcher? I hope that game does not have mouse lag this bad... also, why is it taking me 30+ hours to download a patch?
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nope dont use the patcher much...i start the patcher and write down the file it is downloading then do a search for the file and it brings up a BitTorrent file and i run it through BitTorrent. You just gotta know where patches install to....if you have STEAM games its usually in the same folder as those games
I noticed slight mouse lag on the patcher but it's worse in-game.
The following worked for me as a solution for mouse lag in the UI.
Since I think this "solution" can be due to hardware, it may not work for you.
Open the Final Fantasy Config from the Start Menu (right next to the Game Launcher)
Select General
Select the Graphics Tab
Change the Buffer to half or quarter (quarter gives me higher improvements than half does)
Save the changes and launch the game.
I'm running at 1449 x 900 resolution at half buffer and many of my lag issues are gone.
The funny part is that the game runs the same no matter what my AA settings are set to. No AA is just as slow as 16x! It looks better, but runs the same. I think they have a programming issue with both the mouse cursor, and the way they try to use the buffer (higher buffers usually make things run better).
When I tried double buffer, the game was 100% unplayable.
Give it a shot, I hope it works for you.
PS - I have a Core2Duo Quad Core with 8GB of RAM and an nVidia 9800 GT. When I play this game all 4 cores are pegged between 90% and 100%. But my memory usage is very low... this make it look like they are doing some behind the scenes work to keep mem usage to a minimum. Probably a lot of HD caching (I have not checked my I/O operations during gameplay yet) but I am willing to bet they are using the PS3 limitations on memory as a guideline for both the PC and PS3 versions. If so, they are just being lazy and do not want to fully support both platforms properly.
Again, I hope this helps someone :-)
http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/13698/ffxiv-mouse-lag-fix/
The hack may work... I've not tried it.
But the buffer thing works perfectly for me, and I don't have use a utility that places an un-authorized hack on an executable.
Changing the EXE like that is also against the beta agreement you agreed to when you signed up for the beta. If Square wants to be a real jerk about it, they can cancel your account for using it.
I don't think they will, but they could if they wanted to. My hat's off to Cliff for making a fix for the issue. But I'll stick with lowering the buffer, performance is fantastic for me at quarter buffer (I changed it from half again and there was a noticeable difference for me today).
al it does is turn on hardwear mouse. not even sometihng they would be able to tell happened.
and lowerring your burr means that you are getting pixels drawn 2 times larger. really this works more wonders then turning down the buff.