Strange freezing issue, but only with FFXI (new graphics card, driver issue?)

[RAIST]

A quick search on the ATI support site gave me a hit on the 12.1 drivers...supposed to have a fix for Windows7 users of DX9 mode in Dirt2, amongst other fixes. Perhaps it will address issues for FFXI as well.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...ersion121.aspx

Ulitmateily, this is where you will need to go for help on these newer cards--the card manufacturers need to fix their drivers for DirectX backwards compatability in Vista/Win7. That is the problem, how the drivers are working with the older DirectX.

All SE can really do to remedy that is to change how they implemented DirectX...as in a rewrite of the wrapper. Don't expect that to happen anytime soon. It MIGHT be tweaked when SoA comes out, who knows...at any rate it would be a big change and will take some time to pull off, if they plan to do it.

[Enoah35]

I am also one who has HD6970 with very similar PC configuration as the original poster.
Alienware Aurora R2
I7 860 @ 2.8 Ghz
8GB DDR3 Ram
Windows 7 64 bits

Strange that before I came back was using HD 5800 series and instead of complete freeze, PoL simply crashed with the Display driver stopped responding error. I have so far tried a few methods with no avail:

- Disable HTT from Bios
- Disable Weather/Shadow from ingame
- Disabled all effects from game
- Tested Drivers 12.4, 12.6, 12.7beta, 11.2(!), it all gave same results
- Updated Realtek HD audio drivers to the latest.
- DIsabled Realtek HD audio, and used HDMI cable instead of VGA
- Changed CCC configuration to max compatibility and disabled AMD Overdrive

None of these worked. The freezes are also quite random and freezes on random areas. Someimes it froze in the first 30minuites, others lasted for 5 hours. Sometimes no issue for 6 hours straight. Strange thing is that my 2nd PC is also running on i7 with Radeon card. However its a laptop. It has HD 4870 and using a very very old driver, I think its catalyst 8 something. Now its not even funny have to roll back that far and I don't think those drivers are compatible with the 6000 series and up.

Lastly, the game doesn't seem to freeze when you are idle. It happened to me when I was moving around, fighting etc. at this rate it can and probably will damage my rig and I will probably be forced to quit the game because of it. It may not be an issue today, but with the new expansions and more people upgrading their PC it will be a problem for future players if SE doesn't do anything. (Doubt AMD will move since its one game out of many)

[CaptCaveman]

Enoah, I am experiencing the same exact things as you with a similar system, tho I am running AMD hardware. I've tried a lot of your troubleshooting steps as well. I submitted a report to AMD via their website and I encourage you to do the same, the more reports the better!!! This will help other games and gamers out greatly if there is enough demand! Submit your report here - http://www.amdsurveys.com/se.ashx?s=5A1E27D20B2F3EC4

I filled out mine as completely as possible and I encourage you to do the same!