About the uncapping: I wrote a small utility to do it the same day SE added the fishing fps-changing patch -- I really was that fed up with the fps cap! --
http://pignax.com/pub/ffxi60fps_v0.01.7z Over one year ago now, and it's still working fine.
Around transparent effects like confluxes, the video card's fillrate actually starts to matter. A GTS250 wouldn't quite cut it at 2x background resolution, but a GTX280 can hold 60fps with a conflux taking up the entire screen.
On the PC, model loading is throttled by the framerate, so they will load twice as fast when uncapping to 60fps.
For ATI cards, it seems that they have yet to do a 'miracle patch' like nvidia did with its v256 driver. With the ATI cards I have available, the oldest one I have (X800XT) works just as well as the newest (X1950XTX), and the older the driver the better -- You need to go back to the year 2004 for best driver performance! I did a test a long time ago:
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.htm...852733590&h=50.
In other words, Kohan knows what's true: neither ATI or Nvidia care about old games.