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How do I play FFXI on Windows 7 without it being super laggy? I can get the game to launch, and on my game box it says it's Windows 7 compatible but it is super laggy and I have an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz, Nvidia 9600GT, and 2GB of RAM. I can play Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 2 on the highest settings with no lag, but I've heard FFXI has problems with Windows 7. Changing the settings does do anything I've chnaged it from low to high settings in FFXI but the lag stays the same for me. How do I fix my lag problem on Windows 7?
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Might be a driver problem. I think some nVidia cards had major lag in FFXI if you didn't have a specific driver because of some issue they fixed. Try using the Search function to find threads related to that, because I'm sure there's been a couple.
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I don't think it's a driver problem because I have the latest driver, and everyone I know that has tried to play FFXI on Windows 7 had the same problem I'm havingComment
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Originally posted by Anpippin View Post
read again ;p
"nVidia cards had major lag in FFXI if you didn't have a specific driver because of some issue they fixed."
with Nvidia, you have to use a specific driver version, not the latest, if you are having this lag issue. Its not windows 7 its Nvidia that's giving you hell.-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Nvidia includes all it's fixes in subsequent driver releases so the latest driver will almost always work unless they introduce a new problem with new hardware, but the 9 series didn't. If he is actually using the latest from nvidia and not the one pushed from windows update, it's not a driver issue.Originally posted by Kailea View Post
Wow, thats great. Everyone I know who has played FFXI on Windows 7 hasn't had any problems ever, so what are you doing wrong?everyone I know that has tried to play FFXI on Windows 7 had the same problem I'm havingComment
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Originally posted by Mhurron View Post
was it just that one series of cards that had that issue then? I remember people having to use a specific driver version on nvidia cards a bit back *shrugs*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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It was every series from 6 and up, possibly the FX series as well, but they had been dropped from primary support by the time nvidia fessed up and fixed their problem and I don't know if they backported the fix to the legacy drivers. The fix was referenced in one specific release of the drivers, the first one that had the fix, and that was the latest at the time. The problem has been fixed in each subsequent released, including the latest 190's.
The initial fixed driver was released before Windows 7. You would have to go back and use the Vista driver to use that release, a 173 iirc, and that would be just stupid.
The OP should probably be more clear as to what he thinks is lagging, and ignore those who say 'FFXI has problems with Windows 7' since they quite obviously have no idea what they're talking about.Comment
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Ok I went and tried out FFXI with Windows XP on the same computer I have Windows 7 on, and I had no problems and no lag in Windows XP and I used the same driver for my graphics card in XP as I did in Windows 7, only it was the XP compatible driver and not the Windows 7 compatible one. I was using the latest driver. So I'm thinking if I'm using the same exact system, but just a different operating system maybe it's not fully compatible with Windows 7. But I have the retail version of Windows 7, and maybe all the people you know or have heard of playing FFXI on Windows 7 are still using the beta version of Windows 7.Originally posted by Mhurron View PostComment
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