I just bought a Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 512MB AGP card, so far I've only tried the 9.2 Catalyst drivers from tweakforce and the sapphire page. When loading character models on screen I get stutters and FPS drops, I used to have a 6600GT and had no issues there using the 169.17 drivers. I'm on XP Pro 32 btw.

PlayOnline recommends using 8.3 Catalyst drivers for 3800 cards but I have yet to try them, the newer Catalyst drivers have the AGP hotfix included and I wasn't sure if the 8.3's had them.

So basically my question is, has anyone with a 3800 series+ card had these issues with FFXI? Of course every other game I have has had a huge performance increase since my upgrade, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Crysis, Doom 3, C&C 3, Halo, Overlord etc. Just FFXI is giving me issues, and there is no reason for these FPS drops when my old 6600GT ran the game fine...of course only when I used outdated drivers. (169.17's)

Any tips BG? I've been searching the web since I installed the card yesterday afternoon.

Edit: Tried 8.3 and noticed no difference.