New Nvidia drivers for FFXI.

[The Q]

If this is not meant for XP users please change the OP so people like me don't waste their time/put their computer at risk for nothing.

There wouldn't be a beta drive for WinXP also if it wasn't meant for XP users.

So does anyone know where the 3D Settings profile for FFXI went in the NVIDIA control panel? It was there with the last drivers and now having installed these which were MADE FOR THE GAME it is gone. Without that I can't fucking use ansitropic filtering and I would sooner gouge my eyes out.

Was under polboot.exe when I checked it.

Anyways, drivers appeared to have done jack shit on my GF6800 GT sitting around Whitegate, will take a look at Firaga3/BRD-Songs tomorrow.

That will only apply the filtering to POL, not the actual game. I tried it.

Before there was an actual entry, that I didn't put in myself, called Final Fantasy XI. It's gone now.

[Acorn]

If this is not meant for XP users please change the OP so people like me don't waste their time/put their computer at risk for nothing.

There wouldn't be a beta drive for WinXP also if it wasn't meant for XP users.

Well I said that because of this post:

...These are really only effective for people using 8x00 cards in conjunction with Vista. If you aren't using this combination, you should have no reason to download these.

maybe he knows something we dont

[doofy]

There was nothing for these to "fix" under XP and you aren't going to get a miraculous frame rate boost outside of certain situations, thats the reason these were posted directly to the Vista + Nvidia thread three days ago. The FFXI portion of these drivers was to address the Nvidia + Vista + FFXI (DX8) clusterfuck, and thats exactly what they fix. You aren't going to get fps improvements otherwise, and the firaga bug was fixed with the 163's. These are also very unstable in a lot of things other than FFXI, so unless you are specifically affected by the Vista + Nvidia + FFXI bug there's no reason for you to install them, stick with the .13s for Crysis / CoD4 / etc. or the latest WHQL release.

[Acorn]

Add that to OP then...

[Izzy]

The whole reason these drivers were created were because of the 8x00 issues with Vista/FFXI everyone was having. If you hop on over to the Technical support forum, you'll see a stickied topic about it. That's the main reason these drivers were created. I'm sure the only reason they released .17 drivers for xp was because they have to .

[Acorn]

Ty thats what I wanted to know.

[Rizer]

I have the fps issue on my Vista32 and an NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS, but the list does not say anything about "M" cards. Can anyone with a mobile card confirm whether this driver works or not?

[kuronosan]

Dear holiest of christs.... this pretty much made FFXI run super-smooth for me on max settings. It's quite yumtastic to run into a besieged or campaign and have no FPS drop. NPCs and PCs just fade in and out randomly when they run out of draw distance and the chat lags but I never get any graphical lag. Also noticed improvements in my Crysis FPS too.

[Cail]

it says i cant install cuz "The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit" but i have a GeForce 6800 on XP, on my laptop. Any ideas to help me out?

[kuronosan]

Once again this fix is only for Vista systems.

[Cail]

wth, whys it say for Windows XP then

ForceWare Release 169 BETA for Windows XP and Vista. Apparently makes a HUGE difference.

[kuronosan]

I can't help you there. If it says you can't install the drivers then you need to roll the ones you have back so that you can install these. Since these are brand new drivers, it's either you downloading the wrong ones or your system's drivers are up to date and you can't install them.

[Milkymallards]

it says i cant install cuz "The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit" but i have a GeForce 6800 on XP, on my laptop. Any ideas to help me out?

You need a modded driver INF to change nVidia drivers on laptops from the machine-specific ones. This place should help.

[Izzy]

Once again...if you are using a laptop, you must get a modded inf from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com

[Benichi]

Ugh, this is killing me. I was so excited about the thought of a driver that would allow me to actually watch movies and play FFXI /sigh

I installed these drivers and its just like every other driver past 91.47. It makes my videos stop working (will cause PC to shit bricks) and FFXI looks like total butt. Odd white textures everywhere ><

If ANYONE knows ANYTHING that might help me with my problem, please do let me know. FYI I got nVidia 7800GS AGP and a AMD FX64 CPU. Running Windows XP SP2.

Good luck to everyone else out there that has problems with FFXI and actually doing something else other then playing 1 game -.-

[Tyrath]

I don't think it works for mobile... sonofabitch. I was gonna be so happy.

i'm on 8600m GT.
Didn't install. D:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com

I dont actually see any way to download there. Am I blind? ;/

[calinz]

Dear holiest of christs.... this pretty much made FFXI run super-smooth for me on max settings. It's quite yumtastic to run into a besieged or campaign and have no FPS drop. NPCs and PCs just fade in and out randomly when they run out of draw distance and the chat lags but I never get any graphical lag. Also noticed improvements in my Crysis FPS too.

I would like to know the validity of this. How is it possible to get no frame drops in campaign with these drivers(I'm assuming you're on vista) when I get below 9.0 FPS in Campaign in Ronfaure with 162.18 on WinXP. Please elaborate.

EDIT: corrected my ForceWare version.

[doofy]

The G92 8800 GTS WHQL release drivers should be public soon (169.21), which will make these irrelevant. Can't post them yet, but they should be out within a few hours so someone should be able to re-test for the fix. I'm not going to re-install FFXI just to test drivers, but they have cleared up quite a few lingering issues that have been a problem since 169.04 (aspect scaling, etc.) so I assume the FFXI Vista fix is still in place.

[sruon]

I'm using Windows XP and they made a huge difference in game, however, this screwed most of other game I have, like Bioshock or Counterstrike.

Other than that, we can't expect much more, it's DirectX 8 we are talking about, not 9. /sigh

[Rotsu]

Can those of you who installed these drivers test other games and report back please?

So far people said that Bioshock, TF2 and counter strike have issues with these drivers. I dont want to fix one game to break 10 others.