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I have a 7800GS bought it not too long ago, plays on my system very well with 1.5GB of RAM 2.66ghz P4 HT, nothing too fancy but FFXI works 1600x1200 2048x2048 resolutions w/ weather and full shadows on just fine in 95% of the time. But what I do notice is with *every* driver that supports the 7800GS (i've tried at least 5 different ones now) using a Firaga, certain abilties like Boost, and Asuran Fists, and *all* bard songs that are AOE bring my beastly 7800GS down to it's knees, i drop to the ballpark of ~7FPS while those are cast. FFXI is a *very* large part of my life, and I hate having to config so the effects aren't seen just so i can keep playing FFXI w/o going insane.
I used to have an NVIDIA, then an ATI, while I whole-heartedly agree that NVIDIA whoops ATI hardware wise they do, but ATI knows how to make drivers that *work*. I find it pathetically sad that NVIDIA after over 2yrs of this (i had the *same* problem when FFXI first came out on my old NVIDIA card until i downgraded on it, which said downgraded drivers don't support the 7800GS) they still haven't learned how to fix it. I tried the beta drivers, I tried the new drivers, nothing works, the 77.72 drivers don't support the GS, only the GT apparently. If anybody is willing to help I'd be greatly appreciative, and most other 7800GS owners I'm sure will be as well.
I've even gone so far as to get much better cooling for my gfx card dropping it from 61C to about 50C in full load situations, I also OC'ed my gfx card up to 480/1450 from 430/1300 and I see *zero* difference in those abilities lagging, has anybody found a Regedit, or perhaps some driver I have overlooked? I have all drivers from 77.77 to 84.56 the newest from the EVGA site, none have seemed to work, and the beta driver only works for GT not GS, and even the 77.72 doesn't support the newer GS, I usually don't want to bother people with this, but this has become a very big issue and if anybody has any help I'll be extremely grateful.
I used to have an NVIDIA, then an ATI, while I whole-heartedly agree that NVIDIA whoops ATI hardware wise they do, but ATI knows how to make drivers that *work*. I find it pathetically sad that NVIDIA after over 2yrs of this (i had the *same* problem when FFXI first came out on my old NVIDIA card until i downgraded on it, which said downgraded drivers don't support the 7800GS) they still haven't learned how to fix it. I tried the beta drivers, I tried the new drivers, nothing works, the 77.72 drivers don't support the GS, only the GT apparently. If anybody is willing to help I'd be greatly appreciative, and most other 7800GS owners I'm sure will be as well.
I've even gone so far as to get much better cooling for my gfx card dropping it from 61C to about 50C in full load situations, I also OC'ed my gfx card up to 480/1450 from 430/1300 and I see *zero* difference in those abilities lagging, has anybody found a Regedit, or perhaps some driver I have overlooked? I have all drivers from 77.77 to 84.56 the newest from the EVGA site, none have seemed to work, and the beta driver only works for GT not GS, and even the 77.72 doesn't support the newer GS, I usually don't want to bother people with this, but this has become a very big issue and if anybody has any help I'll be extremely grateful.