Issues, Workarounds & Localization

Every time I alter a character's body my frame rate drops from 50-55 FPS to 3 FPS and there's a 3-5 second delay between input and output. Clicking on Low Quality Characters and reducing texture quality to Low does nothing to improve mid-change frame rate drops and only reduces the I/O lag to 2-3 seconds.

I went on hiatus about 7 months ago and when I left this part of the game was working just fine. Since then I've popped in once or twice for those "hey, come on back and get hooked" offers and it was around mid-winter that I first noticed this issue crop up. At this point I'm wondering if it's something with my installation of the client and not the client in general as I'd have expected it to be fixed by now if it were a general issue.

I'll be happy to provide hardware details on demand, but given that my hardware hasn't changed between the times character customization worked fine and whatever point it stopped working fine I believe those details would be rather irrelevant. The only major change that I recall is that I'm pretty sure I reinstalled my OS, maybe twice, in the intervening time, but I've also re-downloaded and re-installed the client at least once as well and the issue was cropping up even then.