Hey BG,

I recently installed FFXI Ultimate Collection again last night and got to sit through a nice 7 hour update for Abyssea! It was great.

Anyway, I'm having frame rate issues with FFXI - which I really shouldn't since this game is quite a fossil. I'm often in the 15 fps range but I dip into 9 fps often and then I jump back up to 29 for a minute before the cycle starts over again. It often does it's jumping deal even if I'm in my own Mog house doing nothing. It gets really annoying after awhile of playing. All weather effects and shadows are off and changing the resolution does not help matters at all.

Here's my specs for my laptop I got two years ago.

Toshiba Sattelite A215
Windows Vista 32 bit
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor TK-55

ATI Radeon X1200 (Integrated card)
9.1 Drivers + Catalyst Control Center ( I was told 9.1 might fix my problems. no luck yet).

For what it's worth, it ran WoW perfectly fine at ~20 fps constantly. Minus Dalaran. And 25 mans.