[John_B_00]

Does anyone have the default number for the "002" file? I accuadentally change it and now FFXI will not run and says that my system might not be cabable of running the game! Its a brand new kick ass comp but now I cant go back to Vana Diel *wails*. Please Help!

[John_B_00]

I'm in need of immediate assistance! Does anyone have the original default number for file "002" ??? I accidentally changed it, and now I get an error message whenever I try to log into FFXI from Play Online. I never had this problem before and now I cannot get into Vana Diel !!!! Please Help!
/panic

[Gargos]

Why don't you ask just a few more times? I don't think we got the point in those first 11!!!

Just go into the FFXI configuration tool and reset the options in there. Simple as that.

[John_B_00]

Its that simple? Thank you.. very much. I swear I didnt post all those!!

[Basher]

Originally posted by Gargos
I think it's better to look at it this way: If you're running at 120 fps with 1024 (hypothetically) why not increase the detail even further and run at 60 fps? It really does make a noticable difference bumping it up from 1024 to anything above that, so it's worth the tradeoff in the end, even if your PC suffers a bit in large areas.

from what i've seen, this game only runs in 30 fps

i use FRAPS and the max it ever says for FFXI is 30 fps

[Gargos]

I'm not entirely sure. It sure doesn't seem like it's as low as 30 FPS, but then again, there's not a whole heck of a lot of animation going on all the time. Nevertheless, if you can bump up the graphics and maintain that 30FPS mark, why not do it?

[GACKT]

hm... im running at:

AMD Athlon XP 2100+
1.73 GHz
512 MB ram
Radeon 9800XT

and im using the 1024x768, 1280x1280 and still get slow downs..i just recently switched to the XT from a 4200ti, and i was wondering why do i get slow downs with this 3d card at those settings?, any help would be great thanks! ¯—¯) b

[Rones]

Gackt, its your processcor I suspect. FFXI is heavily dependent on the cpu, so much so that even a top knotch video card has trouble making up for it.

[x1ang]

does anyone know when there is a noticeable (to the naked eye) difference? as in from 1024x1024 to 1280x1280, etc.

[GACKT]

Yea, i was suspecting the same thing as well Rones thanks for the reply though i appreciate it!

[Fogia]

Originally posted by x1ang
does anyone know when there is a noticeable (to the naked eye) difference? as in from 1024x1024 to 1280x1280, etc.

Don't take it for granted but if you are standing 40 cm away from a screen, the human eye will notice any difference up to 270 dpi.

To give you an idea, on a 19' screen, at 1024 you would be at 71 dpi while at 1280 you would be at 89 dpi.
As you can see we are far from the limit. To reach it you would need to go up to 3840 in resolution.

But this is currently impossible on the standard computer screens. If have a good 19' screen, pixels are around 0,22 mm. Thus you have around 1660 pixels per line. Not even half of maximum human eye resolution.

I'm not sure what can be found now, but I have seen some 200+ dpi screen for sale for image processing stuff. Price can go up to 30.000 dollars tho.


Technical stuff apart, I think that currently, the best rendering with a reasonable price for the current PC games would be on a 19' screen at 0,22 pinch, resolution set to maximum, considering you have the hardware needed to keep all this at a decent FPS (another topic on human vision ...).
For FFXI, 17' would be still enough since you can only go up to 1280.


Edit : Just noticed, maybe you were in fact talking about what is called the "background resolution".This would be even more complicated since you would need to know how datas are proccessed when displayed on screen (since there is a difference between background and screen resolutions)

[Genrou]

So, after I change both values in regedit to 800, that's all I need to do? I don't need to touch anything in the Final Fantasy XI Config.

[Bagheera]

Can anyone tell me how the registry number and the actual resolution rendered is related?

I am runing 1920X1200 on an Apple Cinema HD 23". Can I custom-set my value so the video card renderes 3D exactly at 1920x1200?

[Exoudeous]

any resolustion besides 2048x2048 will show the background grafix as a single color

[Sands]

I read your posts and everyone seems really happy with the tips. I really want to try this but am no computer genius. I was wondering if you could help me choose the right settings to get the most out of my game.

I have a P4 2.4Ghz, 512MB DDR ram, and a ATI Radion 9200 SE 128MB.

I run at 1024x768 monitor resulution.

What should I set my FFXI config at? and what should I set those registry settings at?

Thanks so much for your time.