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    #1 Patriclis

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      Posted 30 December 2015 - 02:07 PM

      Hello support forum,

       

      I'm having issues getting windower to run without lag on my laptop. Here are my specs:

      Windows 10
      16GB RAM
      Hybrid Graphics: 

           - Intel HD Graphics 4600

           - Nvidia GeForce 745M 2gb
      Intel i7-4700MQ 2.40Ghz (8 CPUs)

       

      When running vanilla FFXI I get no lag issues whatsoever, but when running with windower I get -severe- graphical lag (drops to 10FPS in outside zones + towns, or when trusts are out) ... Really the only thing i've been able to do without lag is solo limbus... and even that gets choppy if an avatar is summoned.

      I have:
      - Turned off all shadows
      - Reduced Clipping Plane to the minimum
      - Turned off all 'effects'
      - Reduced characters on screen to the minimum
      - Turned graphics down to 1366x768
      - Turned off super sampling
      - Turned off Bump Mapping
      - Turned off Mip Mapping
      - Turned off HWAcceleration in the registry
      - Set the default graphics card for all programs to be the nvidia card
      - Set the default graphics specifically for ffxi, pol, and windower to be the nvidia card
      - Set drawdistance to 1

      - Downloaded latest video drivers

      - Reinstalled Windower

      And yet despite all this, windower still lags severely... turning off all these options has shown a very minimal improvement, but nothing actually worth talking about (1 maybe 2 FPS)
      Again, running FFXI normally without windower, runs without lag, even on 1920x1080

      I'm not sure what else to do at this point.... I've tried everything I can think of.

      At this point Im assuming windower is not properly using the Nvidia graphics card for some reason... because I had a laptop 3 years ago that did not have a hybrid card, and ran windower with max settings beyond perfectly, and it was nowhere near as good as this current machine. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.



      #2 Patriclis

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        Posted 30 December 2015 - 03:07 PM

        Reinstalled new driver, lag is improved, but still gets bad with trusts or in abyssea



        #3 Iryoku

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          Posted 31 December 2015 - 07:58 PM

          I do think that Windower may be selecting the Intel GPU unintentionally here. I have a pretty good idea about what may be causing this, but I'm not sure how easy it will be to fix.



          #4 modena

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            Posted 25 January 2016 - 06:27 PM

            If you're still experiencing issues with this then configure your nvidia software tools to specifically utilize your gpu for pol

             

            Here's a related thread on bg, hope it works out for you

            https://www.bluegart...125158-Low-FPS-(FFXI-not-using-dedicated-card)



            #5 Daywhite

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              Posted 27 January 2016 - 03:29 AM

              I had a similar issue, also am using intel hd 4600 but with nvidia 860M

               

              I guess the intel graphics arent compatible with windows 10, so i had to go back to 8.1, no issues since i reverted







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