Intel HD Graphics Display Driver

[saevel]

Thank you very much for the fix! But my point was we shouldn't have to go through all that; Issues like this should be worked out between the gaming and GPU companies. But all they do is ping-pong blame.

Firstly your using a freaking Intel HD as a GPU, that's a bad idea. Those things are pretty much good only for watching movies and playing the most basic of games. FFXI's graphics engine is archaic as hell, it's actually written to use DX8 which was long before any of current Intel onboard GPUs were made. DX8 is emulated through a DX9 library which is then fed through the WDM for native execution on the actual hardware. Intel's GPU drivers suck in general, don't expect much comparability from them.

TLDR; buy a cheap dGPU off newegg and it'll work much better. Something like a 650/660 or one of the equivalent AMD models.

[Deveron]

I buy what I can afford and so do a lot of people; I play SWTOR, Perfect World, Aion, Mass Effect 1-3 and Defiance with no problem what so ever. Yet FFXI doesn't render characters with new drivers hmm.. Sounds like SE made a mistake or are just lazy and don't want to bother looking into the issue and fixing/patching it. And I've asked both Intel and SE via phone and web help and all they do is ping pong blame saying and I quote "Call the (other) company they'll help you. After several calls to SE they tell me to reinstall the whole game and POL. That line has been their BS line since they started. I've never gotten good customers support from them; even when the GM and Live chat option was an option in the POL Viewer. So far the best customers support I've seen is from swtor; yes you have to send them like 20 files and a screenshot of the issue but several days or a month later they patch it. SE always takes months to patch it and then the friggin patch size to fix a tiny issue is huge or included with a version update.

Firstly your using a freaking Intel HD as a GPU, that's a bad idea. Those things are pretty much good only for watching movies and playing the most basic of games. FFXI's graphics engine is archaic as hell, it's actually written to use DX8 which was long before any of current Intel onboard GPUs were made. DX8 is emulated through a DX9 library which is then fed through the WDM for native execution on the actual hardware. Intel's GPU drivers suck in general, don't expect much comparability from them.

TLDR; buy a cheap dGPU off newegg and it'll work much better. Something like a 650/660 or one of the equivalent AMD models.