Ryamatsu wrote:
Mileage may vary but this helped me with my machine, running Windows 10 with an i7 processor. Basically, FFXI doesn't run well on multicore processors and this will force it to run on one core. I have experienced drastic improvement on both retail and nasomi after doing this.
The dos command "start" allows a paramenter /affinity in Windows Vista or higher (NOTE: not for XP). You can simply make a little batch file and start FFXI with it, to have it automaticly assigned to 1 core.
Create a new file and call it "launch.bat" (or whateveryoulike.bat). Edit it with notepad or whatever you like and place in:
start /affinity 2 launcher.exe
(for windower users)
or:
start /affinity 2 pol.exe
(The 2 after "affinity" is the core which it runs on. With this number it runs on the second core!)
If you use Windower, place the file in your windower folder, if you don't use, place it in your Playonline Viewer Directory. Make a Shortcut to your Desktop, add a nice name, and a icon to the Shortcut, and launch FFXI with this shortcut instead of the default pol or windower shortcut.
If you have an older processor, specifically a Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading activated (which is a single core processor, but acts as 2 processors within windows), you may want to set core 1, cause core 2 is only a virtual core and slightly slower.
yep thank you runs solid 59 fps super smooth now. OP is a hero