New Invisable Npc/pc/mobs thread.

[Onisake]

I've noticed radeon cards aren't very.... efficient in rendering the game. In fact i'd say around 70% of the problems I see posted users have radeon cards.

I personally think this is a driver issue. SE has not posted recomended drivers, so it's hard to confirm this.

Have you rolled back drivers? try something from early January.

[Renala]

I've noticed radeon cards aren't very.... efficient in rendering the game. In fact i'd say around 70% of the problems I see posted users have radeon cards.

I personally think this is a driver issue. SE has not posted recomended drivers, so it's hard to confirm this.

Have you rolled back drivers? try something from early January.

It could be. And yes, I did. I tried 12.1, which reportedly still worked. My old PC had a 4000 series AMD/ATI card and it ran the game no problem, but for some reason this one... /sigh

Also, I forget if its been mentioned, but this PC was a store bought PC(I know, I know, don't remind me "YOu need to make your own!") and the graphics card came installed/intigrated with the motherboard, I was told after giving some info about this.

[Onisake]

It could be. And yes, I did. I tried 12.1, which reportedly still worked. My old PC had a 4000 series AMD/ATI card and it ran the game no problem, but for some reason this one... /sigh

Also, I forget if its been mentioned, but this PC was a store bought PC(I know, I know, don't remind me "YOu need to make your own!") and the graphics card came installed/intigrated with the motherboard, I was told after giving some info about this.

onboard vs. offboard doesn't matter for the GPU. there are a few small tweaks, but they do the same job. it sounds like this is a laptop? can't remember the last time i saw an integrated chipset on a desktop mobo.

anyway. I personally have had nothing but problems with the AMD/Radeon chipsets. there drivers are the absolute worst. keep trying different versions, it may take a while before you hit a sweet spot. try rolling back to last october. you might also call the customer support line and grill the tech guys about recommended drivers. if they say they don't know keep asking. ask them to escalate. ask them if they use AMD/Radeon. ask them which drivers they use. etc. etc. the more specific the question you ask the better off you are. if it sounds like they are giving you a generic response ask for escalation/talk to a manger.

For FFXI i had to use drivers that were almost 2 years old. so buckle down and keep trying. if you can't get anything out of SE, try calling Radeon or posting on an AMD/Radeon forum to see what drivers other people are using.

and having a retail vs custom PC shouldn't matter either. I always highly recommend people to buy retail PCs if they dont' know how to troubleshoot or have the motivation to constantly do benchmarks to tweak their PC. it's like a car almost, you need to always be messing with it and fine tuning. custom PCs are not for everyone so don't let the elitist bastards get you down with the constant 'build your own PC!' crap.

[Blunt_Zephyr]

onboard vs. offboard doesn't matter for the GPU. ~lots of talk~ custom PCs are not for everyone so don't let the elitist bastards get you down with the constant 'build your own PC!' crap.

If you've played with lego as a child, you can build your own PC. They are not elitist-bastards.

Onboard vs. dedicated GPU makes a HUGH difference! Perhaps couple that with a 65w CPU that doubles as the GPU and under 500mb of system-memory dedicated for the 6550D APU=CPU+GPU unit.
15gig page files seems insanely large but that's more of tweak'n then issue.

Does your PC have an open PCI-E slot? If so, fill-it with an nVidia card ( I dont go for this fanboi-bs but I have used&still possess a PCI-128 from ATI and used ATI until the 9000-series. Went to nVidia when I got back into 'puting with a 220...I'll never go back to ATI Always had issues using ATI (before and after AMD bought that lil Canadian company)