ffxi freezing new pc halp

[Coren]

I'm getting pretty serious lockup issues with my new pc on FFXI. I get no problems when playing BF2142 on some of the higher vid settings. The problem I'm having is that the game will freeze for about 10 seconds (stays frozen so long, even the music freezes), then will catch back up. In besieged, it did it 12 or 13 times in a row, and eventually I got DC'd due to it.

System specs are:

Core 2 duo 2.66
2x1gb kingston ram (667 mhz)
evga 680i mainboard
pny 7950 gt vid card
2x250gb WD in raid stripe
truepower trio 650 psu

I've tried 5 or 6 different forceware drivers (http://www.3dchipset.com... I tried the top 10, half won't load though).

I'm pretty stumped. I don't think it's the hardware because my FPS games work fine.

Any ideas?

[Zigma]

I heard the 7950 has issues with ffxi. Might wanna look in the windower forum for some nfo.

[Calina]

iam using the 7950 myself have had np at all ots worked fine with every game ive tried

[Coren]

iam using the 7950 myself have had np at all ots worked fine with every game ive tried

You actually have the PNY? or another version? And, what driver are you using?

Compatibility has been confirmed for the following graphics cards using the "NVIDIA ForceWare TM Ver. 91.47" driver.

- GeForce 7 series (excluding 7950, 7100, and the GX2 series) (PCI-Express only)
*DirectX 9.0c is required to use "ForceWare TM Ver. 91.47."

I have no clue how old this quote is, I found it posted on the windower forums.

[Calina]

iam using the drivers that came with the install disk i never upgraded them

worked fine right out of the box so dident wanna mess with it

[cassiraa]

The 7950 itself won't crash FFXI, not with any working driver set. I not only support them, but I use one myself! ( '-')b

Find out who made your motherboard, and update your BIOS and Chipset drivers for it. [chipset for the 680i are at http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_680 ... _9.53.html Bios update is gonna be at evga.com's site.]

That's gonna be the best thing for you to do, and will probably fix it.

[Bwelch]

iam using the 7950 myself have had np at all ots worked fine with every game ive tried

Does the 7950 work well with Windower? I heard there was some complications with that.

[cassiraa]

iam using the 7950 myself have had np at all ots worked fine with every game ive tried

Does the 7950 work well with Windower? I heard there was some complications with that.

BFG Tech Shamelessplug! 7950GT OC PCI-E and I run Dynamis with All options turned on and Drawdistance set to 3 at 25-30 FPS. steady. I can even dualbox 2 chars on the same computer and alt+tab between them. So yeah, it works more than flawlessly.

[Bwelch]

iam using the 7950 myself have had np at all ots worked fine with every game ive tried

Does the 7950 work well with Windower? I heard there was some complications with that.

BFG Tech Shamelessplug! 7950GT OC PCI-E and I run Dynamis with All options turned on and Drawdistance set to 3 at 25-30 FPS. steady. I can even dualbox 2 chars on the same computer and alt+tab between them. So yeah, it works more than flawlessly.

Good news. I was thinking of buying a 7950 but I heard there were plenty of artifacts to choke a Dhalmel.

[Calina]

iam using the 7950 myself have had np at all ots worked fine with every game ive tried

Does the 7950 work well with Windower? I heard there was some complications with that.

BFG Tech Shamelessplug! 7950GT OC PCI-E and I run Dynamis with All options turned on and Drawdistance set to 3 at 25-30 FPS. steady. I can even dualbox 2 chars on the same computer and alt+tab between them. So yeah, it works more than flawlessly.

i do the same just got new comp past x-mas got the 7950 sepritly about 3 weeks later

its a great card have had no problems at all with it

i dualbox for limbus and dyna sometimes in besiged as well i have FF running with everything turned on footsteps weather shadows on high i throw as much at it as i can at once and still it proforms beautifly

[Shadida]

I just ordered a 7950GT so hopefully I see the same results Calina and cassiraa have. :D

- Shadida