New FFXI support from NVIDIA 266.58 Driver

[Johyo]

I am surprised FFXI is still considered for a driver update.... Is it normal for a hardware company to care so much to add better support for a 9 year old game?

New in Release 266.58

GPU Support

Supports the newly released GeForce GTX 580 and GeForce GTX 570 GPUs.

Performance

Increases performance for GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. the latest Release 260 drivers. The following are examples of some of the most significant improvements measured on Windows 7. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 580:

Up to 7% in Battlefield Bad Company 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 12% in Battleforge (SLI 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF Very High)
Up to 11% in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (SLI 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 7% in Dirt 2 (SLI 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 7% in Far Cry 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 5% in Just Cause 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF Dark Tower)
Up to 5% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (SLI – 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 9% in Stone Giant (SLI 1920x1200, DOF on)
Up to 8% in Unigine Heaven v2.1 (SLI 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)

Improves performance in Final Fantasy XI on GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs.

[Pro]

Yes because the game is(was)TOTALLY unplayable before.

[Kaisha]

Any chance of the tweaks improving performance on older cards also, or is nVidia explicit with their tweaks on a per-series basis?

[chiyio]

Any chance of the tweaks improving performance on older cards also, or is nVidia explicit with their tweaks on a per-series basis?

it's mostly that ffxi worked REALLY badly on the 400 and 500 series cards. it worked fine on the old cards already. there was a huge thread on the nvidia forums about this and it took a lot of pressure/time to get them to fix this. It was basically unplayable before.


there's also an old thread on bg about this.

[Kaisha]

I'll probably try it anyways. Been having major lag problems with spikes effects and brd songs lately.