Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Hardwarewise, you have a decent midrange gaming setup.
His computer is pretty much a dream compared to the PS2.
Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
I would be curious as to what size monitor you are driving. if its a 24" or larger, than you still might just be running out of video horsepower.
The physical size of a monitor has no bearing as to the strain on the graphics card. Power draw from the wall, quite probably, but for the most part, only pixel count and refresh rate is going to have an impact on the GPU.
When this game first came out, I played it on a P4 2.533GHz, 2GB RAM, Radeon 9000 Laptop from 2002 and never had any problems with the game's playability, though admittedly, I never played with the sound on while playing on that machine, but I did use the registry tweaks to do some super sampling. I played on that machine up through aht urhgan.
FFXI is not a particularly demanding game in terms of PC components. And areas where the game does seem to choke a little bit, will choke on the most extreme of machines too. An OC'd 3960x with 16GBs of RAM and other components of a similar tier will not grant some magic harness over XI and make it have none of the flaws most people would want to attribute to a slow pc. Load times when zoning are basically the same whether you use an HDD or SSD. The chat log will still stutter flow with lots of action going on. etc etc
The OP's issues:
Sounds like a video card issue.
"congested areas and actual xp parties get it as high as 41* C." - The temps are more than fine. In that respect your GPU is barely breaking a sweat.
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Screen goes black for about 3 seconds, then the window pops up white again and tells me PoL quit responding. I also get a system message saying "Your display driver stopped working, but has successfully recovered."
That's where your attention is required. Something is happening on your system: component malfunction or driver malfunction. The graphics driver comes to a screeching stop and restarts due to whatever the problem is.
This could be the result of a bad driver install, or something flaking out on the gpu, motherboard, or possibly psu.
An entire resinstall of the whole system may fix it if the problem is in software.
Alternatively, you could try replacing components with a "known good". Borrow a GPU from someone or go back to an old one you've got tucked away some place. Loan the GPU to someone and see if they have any problems.
Does the issue happen in other more demanding games? Have you tried running any graphical benchmarks to see if those crash the system as well?
Edited, Jul 5th 2013 11:19pm by Torzak