Lag during fights

[nouanda²]

Hi guys,

During fights, there can be a very long lag, between the choice of an action and its actual happening. During this lag, characters are stuck in their "waiting" loop. The game does not freeze, it just does not launch the action I selected.
The first time I noticed it was during the fight against Ochu in Kilika, and then it happens randomly during any kind of fight (normal fiends or boss).
Does it happen to someone else?

cheers

[Unyoto]

This happens to me as well. Did you find a solution?

[nouanda²]

No. It still happens from time to time.
Not so frequently though

[RiO]

This game's file I/O and memory management are not tuned to PC. It's still stuck being managed like a PS3 game. I.e. lots and lots of data being streamed and flushed the entire time.

If you have hickups in your I/O throughput due to heavy background processes running (e.g. Windows Update taking a full core in Windows 7 for prolonged amounts of time to 'check for updates') or due to overzealous anti-virus solutions taking too long to scan a file, then those hickups will translate into the kind of 'stalls' that you are describing.

[BeRad]

I have been wrestling with this problem for the last few days the way that I found that finally fixed the delay error was to simply switch off Ambient Occlusion.

The way I found it was to simply switch off everything in video settings and then switch one setting on at a time then test. Of course, Murphy's Law dictates that whenever you do this the culprit is always the very last option in the list. I can't begin describe the amount of other things I had tried to do to fix this annoying bug.

Anyway, I hope that helps someone out there. I'm posting this because when I searched google for this problem this tread was one of the top results.