Post your Rig and the settings you play on guys`

[Point_Zero]

I've got a cabient full of 386sx,486 and pentium motherboards, along with plenty of vintage video and sound cards. Even have a quad 486 compaq machine as an endtable! Just can't part with the stuff

I use my gaming machine I mentioned for ffXI also, so if I do upgrade I'll probably try to stuff a radeon X1950XT into it alongside a GTX560, and dual boot with XP using the radeon and w7 using the GTX (I'm not sure how well that will work, since my current board only has one pcie-x16 slot). After lots of testing with FFXI, I found that the x1950 with 2007 drivers has superior image quality and no strange slowdown issues compared to newer radeons, and all geforce cards. XIV won't even start with an x1k series card though
That latest nvidia driver really helped with the low framerates, but the image quality is still terrible.

Wow the new 400 and 500 series Nvidia cards sucked that bad for FFXI? Have you tried to use the launcher or mess with the registry settings to make it look better?

[Diraco]

Wow the new 400 and 500 series Nvidia cards sucked that bad for FFXI? Have you tried to use the launcher or mess with the registry settings to make it look better?

Yes, and before the latest driver, people were getting 4 to 5 fps with only a few characters onscreen.
Of course, I tried every setting available, but the image quality on my GTS250 took a gigantic dive after driver 185.something. It was best on the "special ffxi beta" driver 174.something, matching the quality of the radeon. I switched to the latest 266 driver, though, since it can maintain capped framerate with maximum characters onscreen, whereas the 174 driver drops to 24fps or so.