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?
Alright, ZAM. Have fun with that.
Edited, Aug 22nd 2014 2:27pm by Exodus