texture "flickering"

[Rydell]

i have a geforce 7800GTX and experience some really bad texture "flickering" in FFXI when my char moves around. it happens mostly on flat surfaces like the stone floor in bastok. it is hard to describe how it looks like exactly, but it certainly hurts my eyes and it stops once the char stops to move. (i am using forceware 81.98.)

i raised the background textures to 2048x2048 but the flickering still persists. (MIP and Bump mapping are on.) i would like to try enabling AA and see if the flickering disappears but i do not know how to do that. how do i enable AA in FFXI?

[PotentPotables]

Re: texture "flickering"

Try checking the settings on your monitor. Or, you're monitor might be going out if the settings on it are fine. Try double checking your system with another monitor or TV out if you can.

[neighbortaru]

Re: texture "flickering"

FFXI does not support AA. The background res hack is the closest thing you'll get to AA.

You can try forcing AF in your drivers and upping the Mip-map (probably this) to see if that helps.

[Rydell]

Re: texture "flickering"

i tried it both on my 19" and 17" TFT with the same result. (i don't own a CRT monitor anymore.) i will try to force now AF in the drivers menu.

maybe it is a 7800GTX issue, in one thread above it was mentioned that that card is not officially compatible with FFXI because of some graphical "lag" issues...

[zerofighter777]

Re: texture "flickering"

i tried it both on my 19" and 17" TFT with the same result. (i don't own a CRT monitor anymore.) i will try to force now AF in the drivers menu.

maybe it is a 7800GTX issue, in one thread above it was mentioned that that card is not officially compatible with FFXI because of some graphical "lag" issues...

I have the same problem with my MSI 6800GS. Only does it in some areas. I use a 17" Samsung LCD and connected my old Sony CRT and still does it. I think its a card issue. My old PC had a ATI 9200 then went to a 6600GT and it was fine. Just built this PC and noticed the issues. None of my other games have that problem, F.E.A.R, HL-2 , etc. I got worried myself. So I quess we have to wait for SE to fix this. Hope this helps.

Here some usefull info for you from Playonline.com.

We are conducting compatibility tests with the "NVIDIA ForceWare(TM) Ver. 81.98" driver for the following graphics cards. We have detected a minor issue in game-play lag when effects such as magic or songs are displayed. We are currently investigating the cause.

- GeForce 7800GTX
- GeForce 6 series