So.. I admit I have a shitty PC and a shitty Video Card but I still like them.
Currently using:
1gig ram (2x 512)
nvidia 6200 256mb(i know its a pos...)
p4 3ghz
dx9.0c
This card sucks and my setup sucks but it still worked fine when I played WoW. If I leave everything on default settings I can get a constant 30+ FPS except for raids. During that time I would update my drivers for my card (naturally... who wouldn't?)
I re-installed FFXI again (Third time is the charm I think) and now with this card and the most recent ForceWare release I am getting an interesting issue. No matter what screen res/background res I set the game at I get a constant 29FPS (cap iirc?) throughout the game. But if there is more than me and 2 other PC/NPC's/Objects Rendered on the displayed portion of the screen (IE Stuff right behind doesn't count... so not the stuff loaded into memory; just the objects that are displayed on the viewable portion of the screen) my FPS imediately drops down to 4-7FPS. Why? I have no idea.. I've tried the recommended ForceWare that POL Suggests that I use and then tried the 90.xx Version and then the most recent version. All produce the same issue. Once I get back down to me and only 2 other objects it shoops right back up to 29FPS... Looking for ideas/different drivers to try/pretty much anything. It's killing me playing like this and I had less problems with the super POS integrated chip I have on my PC and I know I can get better from a card than you can from integrated.
Halp.