Can we please have 60FPS and increased draw distance in the PC version?

[oliveira]

9600 GT runs this game with out lag in the macro system.

It's as I said. The game is for DirectX8.1

On nvidia case any GPU on the "TESLA" (GTxxx) range or older is going to work good with FFXI. Fermi GPUs is where it started to go downhill for FFXI with nvidia.

Keep in mind that this regards the actual chip hardware, not the drivers as these will change their behavior completely based on the graphics card you have installed on the system.
It should make no difference if you have something like a 9x00 series Geforce (Which are TESLA core based) and the current driver or something older like a 7x00 series Geforce with the same driver as both cards will deal with DirectX8 directives in hardware.

A Fermi (GF100), Kepler (GK100) or anything newer than thay will leave you with poor FFXI performance regardless of the driver version you have.

[Diraco]

It's as I said. The game is for DirectX8.1

On nvidia case any GPU on the "TESLA" (GTxxx) range or older is going to work good with FFXI. Fermi GPUs is where it started to go downhill for FFXI with nvidia.

Keep in mind that this regards the actual chip hardware, not the drivers as these will change their behavior completely based on the graphics card you have installed on the system.
It should make no difference if you have something like a 9x00 series Geforce (Which are TESLA core based) and the current driver or something older like a 7x00 series Geforce with the same driver as both cards will deal with DirectX8 directives in hardware.

A Fermi (GF100), Kepler (GK100) or anything newer than thay will leave you with poor FFXI performance regardless of the driver version you have.

It's true that at low resolutions, any old nvidia card will do. The card's speed does make a difference once background resolution is set to 2048x2048 though. With my testing, a GTX780 kept capped framerate in more situations than a GTX280 or a 7900GTX at 2kX2k.

[oliveira]

It's true that at low resolutions, any old nvidia card will do. The card's speed does make a difference once background resolution is set to 2048x2048 though. With my testing, a GTX780 kept capped framerate in more situations than a GTX280 or a 7900GTX at 2kX2k.

Actually changing the rendering buffer will increase CPU load mostly. If you are noticing any benefits on the GTX780 (288GB/s) over a GTX280(177GB/s) it's mostly due to faster burst transfers (CPU RAM to GPU RAM) on the GTX780.