I had started my long winded reply last night, but I hit backspace and that hit my browser's back button and there went my post. I had thought about casting double Flare onto my keyboard, but I figured going to sleep was a better idea.
-I went to check on defrag, seems like the system did it already a couple of days ago, so that's checked off. Not on a SSD, either, as cool as it would be to run on one.
-Windows Defender is actually a pretty decent anti-virus. The windows 7 equivalent is "Microsoft Security Essentials" or some such. System is clean, though I'm not really one to download much of anything.
-8 GB ISN'T A LOT?! Mother of <bleep>. Also, didn't realize that Chrome would suck up THAT much memory, so I'll give it a whirl today with just about everything I can close, closed.
-Even though I /just/ said I don't download much, going to check out that latency proggy. I'll post results in a few.
-I'll also check out that latency fixer thingy, further making me sound like I'm psychotic.
-I /haven't/ updated the BIOS. Its a fairly new PC, so I didn't even weigh that in as an option. I'll have to add that to the list of things I need to check out.
-Graphics card is up to date. One of the first things I checked when I noticed that FFXIV wasn't as smooth as I thought it could be.
Stuff I've done thus far:
-I've closed out that background app Chrome has. **** if I know WTF it was doing in the first place.
-I changed my paging file. Minimum is about 4GB (its set to what Windows stated is the recommended) and I set the max to 24GB.
-I've added exceptions to FFXIV on /both/ Windows Firewall and Defender.
-I had a bowl of Frosted Flakes. It was delicious.
I'll keep you guys posted. Thanks again for all the help! Group hug!
EDIT: Wait....really? The four letter word for the religiously based land of fire and brimstone is censored, but the acronym WTF is ok?
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Alright, ZAM. Have fun with that.
Edited, Aug 22nd 2014 2:27pm by Exodus