[Lunaryn]

Windows XP
NVIDIA 7600 GT (256MB)
3 gigs of RAM
2.4 gHz processor

30 frames per second in MH
18-20 in Bastok
6-12 in Whitegate
4-7 Whitegate AH

I really need some way of taking some pressure of the CPU. Does anyone else with this card have any suggestions? I can't stand the fact that my friend with average specs plays the game beautifully, but my cursor lags 3 seconds behind my button presses and my framerate is 5 FPS when I want to do the awesome things like campaign. I'm really open to any tweaks to my system that will help alleviate the CPU.

I'm also running onboard sound, which I heard could be pulling some CPU power. It's just really discouraging.

Thanks.

My experiences with this card have been quite good all around, so I'm not sure what to make of this. I would suggest you make sure you don't have something running in the background that might be interfering (the official bittorrent client was the culprit in some recent intermittent problems I encountered, so I've tossed it). Aside from that, there are some recent beta forceware drivers which are said to improve performance in FFXI. I haven't noticed any significant difference from the drivers that shipped with my card, but then I've been getting 29fps pretty consistently almost anywhere.

Honestly, I've used this on a Radeon 8500 on a 1.3GHz system and didn't have results anywhere near that bad, so it's not a question of your specs being anywhere close to insufficient. I'd look for other programs causing a problem.