nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

[Mhurron]

Not sure how these people find it, but I came across this forum post at Guru3d:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=2524737&postcount=85

ForceWare 169.17 Beta

Beta driver for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs and Final Fantasy XI.
This driver is only a recommended update for customers playing Final Fantasy XI

The links listed there do download from download.nvidia.com

This is a like to the whole thread. It's going to be Wednesday evening before I'm going to be trying these drivers to see what happens.

[Ellipses]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

It'd be nice to know what specifically these are supposed to address. I'll see about giving these a try tonight, but I won't know what to test. I know there's Bard song/firaga lag, WotG area gamma weirdness (which I don't get anyway), and general stability (which has never been a problem for me). Are there other nVidia-specific known issues?

[Mhurron]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

General graphical slow down. In XP I can have 29FPS in areas not very highly populated and have it go down to 10-12 where it is. The problem was exasperated in Vista, where 15fps was the norm and populated areas went down regularly to 2-5fps.

In the most recent interview, SE said they were finally able to get nVidia to admit it was their problem.

[Akashimo]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

Haven't looked at the links yet, but will they work for a GeForce4 MX 4000?
Also <.< apparently the vista 32bit one can't find drivers on my 'lovely' hp laptop.

[Raydeus]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

/equip head "Tinfoil Hat +1"
/ma Barconspiracy <me>

I say this is the latest RMT plot to steal accounts, install this and say bye bye to your account!! It's very suspicious nVidia would finally release a fix for this.

But then again I don't use nVidia cards anyway.

[Mhurron]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

Haven't looked at the links yet, but will they work for a GeForce4 MX 4000?

Beta driver for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs

About the drivers not finding your card on your laptop, this isn't strange. OEM's often change the cards ID so that they are the only supplier of drivers for it. If you want to go through and mod the drivers INF to find mobile platform chips this http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=171843 might help.

[Akashimo]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

But then again I don't use nVidia cards anyway.

/equip main "Pitchfork with fire + 2"
/equip sub "Pitchfork strap"
/equip ammo "Burning fire"
/ja "Set Fire to Non-beliver" Raydeus
/point Raydeus
/laugh Raydeus
/s Burn to the steak!


Edit:
Thanks Mhurron. *slips a duelist's claimslip to mhurron*

Double Edit: Can't find the files they said to mod for them on either the desktop or the laptop. And of course, nVidia doesn't give you support for laptops and points you to the manufactor's website -.-;

[Feba]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

Haven't looked at the links yet, but will they work for a GeForce4 MX 4000?

about the only thing that works on GeForce 4 MXs are a hammer. although I've heard good things about blowtorches, that might be out of your budget.

[Akashimo]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

about the only thing that works on GeForce 4 MXs are a hammer. although I've heard good things about blowtorches, that might be out of your budget.

<.<; Right I'll get on that.

[Mhurron]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

Double Edit: Can't find the files they said to mod for them on either the desktop or the laptop. And of course, nVidia doesn't give you support for laptops and points you to the manufactor's website -.-;

Download the files and run the exe. Watch where it puts the temp files. The INF should be there.

[Akashimo]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

k, there we go @_@;

[Ameroth]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

Don't mean to necro or anything, but I've been using these drivers for sometime now and so far I've seen a drastic improvement. No drop in FPS from weather, spells, songs, or being near a crag. Still get lag from being around large amounts of people (i.e. Whitegate), but before them ppl load to screen fps is capped. As far as playing ffxi goes, these drivers seem to be right on key.

I will admit I havent don't much testing with other games/app as of yet, but Sims2 still runs perfect on my machine, GTA: VC is flawless still, and that's about the only other 2 games I've played within the last 2 weeks.

[Nymphadora]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

I haven't tried Sims 2 in a while, but I used to download all sorts of stuff for that, there was always lag somewhere lol. I think it sounds like something only adressed for ffxi players. I didn't know anything about this thread and just installed a GeForce6200 not long ago though, so thanks for the necro.

[Tsikuro]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

I am finding it strange that if I have shadows enabled, in areas like Whitegate, right outside the MH, my FPS drops to around 25.

I am playing with overlay resolution set as high as possible, but you'd think there wouldn't be any slowdown in FFXI on a rig that can run Crysis maxed out.

I use the 169.09 Beta drivers through-- so, I'm going to download the newest one (169.21)-- these "fixes" are still in effect for that one, right?

[Taskmage]

Re: nVidia Drivers for FFXI users

My experience has been much the same as Ameroth's.