Quote Originally Posted by Zirconian View Post
there used to be a setting to stabliize graphics on ffxiconfig but im not sure what it turned into
I think what you're referencing is the legacy setting "optimise for certain graphics cards" which for me is set by default so I don't think it's that.

Quote Originally Posted by Zehira View Post
Hi Artello.

What you are experiencing is Z-Fighting. Since FFXI runs on Direct3D8, there is no solid solution to fix it. It's a common thing when people play the old game at higher resolutions than what its engine is capable of displaying. There are several things to try.

You might want to set mipmap to 4 but it won't solve 100% though. Change your graphics high or low. Rollback your Nvidia driver version to 375.70 and see if it can solve. However, reducing Z-fighting is not known. It is only based on your own hardware.

Some people like me learned to live with it.

You may want to search for Direct3D8 to Direct3D9 Proxy and see if it can fix your problems even it can be done with vanilla. I doubt we are allowed to talk about any wrapper/third party tool on this official forum though.

Sometimes I wonder what your CPU is because AMD and Nvidia aren't friendly toward each other but you can try this thread to FFXIAH.
Hi, Appreciate the response! very helpful. I at least know what it is that I'm dealing with hehe. I think the only thing I can try is lowering my graphics setting, I have it set to custom, I put it to ultra, but because it's been suggested to set background resolution to 4096x4096, as for mipmapping, I believe that's the draw distance option in the config? which is just a tick box now, so I don't think I can sort that I'm afraid.

As for drivers, I'm not sure what it is to check, but if you can tell me how, I'd appreciate it, not sure how well to sort that, computer stuff like this always worries me haha. as for my CPU it's an Intel i5, not sure on generation, but I'm guessing it's recent since I got the PC built only in like summer of last year.

I've tried a few different resolutions, mostly the larger ones, mostly the larger ones, (so something like XXXXx1000 or above, since the UI graphics go blurry for me below that.) and if it helps, I play it in windowed mode.