ok well the probelm happend since i installed the game last week. It def isnt connectiobn prob i dont believe cause i had my comp at my friends and we were both playing together through same router and his was fine. Anywayz the game is actually on its OWN formatted HDD, i bought the harddrive cause i only had a 20gig one and knew how big this game was so its just an 80gig with nothing but FFXI on it. The game runs really choppy and laggy especially in town near AH, or in large parties. heres my comp specs...and for the record i have forceware or whatever its called drivers for my vid card and there the most recent.
CPU: 2.2 ghz
Vid Card: Geforce FX 5200 PCI---I thought the fact thats its PCI might have somethin to do with prob but i dunno
Mem: 256MB
Direct3d tests all pass in dxdiag- version should be 9.0b or a not sure.
Cable connection
Runs other games such as counter-strike-diablo-and jedi knight perfectly
Thx in advance!!!!!