I have run trials many times, and I am not unfamiliar with low framerate and high latency tied to them, but my last run was completely unbearable. I admit, I do usually turn off shadows entirely, which I didn't this time.(Shadows were left on medium) I usually run around 20 fps minimum, but this time I was lucky to get 1 frame every 4-5 seconds in some fights. Do shadows really make this much of a difference? I did get a new damage meter I've seen commonly used in dungeons/raids but I find it hard to believe this is the cause, as I have used AUI or FTC or even both before without issues. I had all 'on/off' graphics options disabled, and particle effects were set to ~1k, really low specs for what it's running on. In wayrest during peak hours I can get 40-50fps with maxed settings, yet I hop into a trial and I get a slideshow.

I am currently running a fx-6300@4.4ghz and a gtx 960@1.5ghz. 8gb ram. It's no million dollar machine but I really expect to get more out of it, this is the only game it struggles with.

Any tips or recommendations to improve framerate are greatly appreciated, there are sets I would like to farm and currently I am far too useless to feel comfortable hopping back in a trials group to get them.

Here is a video of the painful last trash pull/boss of nSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lHqKR3-LX8


I was not recording previously, but it was so bad I had to record the last fights.