I've been running FFXIV fine on 1680x1050, Most things at standard, texture and the second one in the same place on high. I can run the game with 4x AA or even 16x with shadows on High and my fan makes an acceptable amount of noise, but due to flowers I have reduced this in fear of my card burning out or over heating, so I have turned AA off but kept shadows on.

Now my fan is near silent whilst in towns, dungeons, running from place to place - Until I come across a place that has an amount of flowers, then the fan gradually builds up speeds and will not die down until I move away from them (Bit of a pain when levelling Botany)

Is there any way to disable these flowers? Or a setting I can use so that my graphics card doesn't go nuts whenever they're nearby?

I am running :
Windows 7 64-bit
8GB RAM
nVidia 560ti
Intel i5 2400 cpu