GeForce Beta Driver Release 266.35

[kitch9]

Am i missing your point here but just because you have V sync on does not mean you will output 60 fps ?

3d Vision locks the graphics card output to the monitors refresh rate, it has to in order to work. The monitor will be running at 120hz with 60hz going to each eye, therefore the net effect is the game is locked to a maximum of 60hz.

The side effect of this is that if the graphics card cannot maintain 60fps to match the monitor, the framerate has to drop to the next available framerate that matches the monitor and that is 30fps. If you have a game that is hovering around 60 with frequent drops below that it will constantly fluctuate between 30fps and 60fps with nothing in between. (Looks awful.)

Triple buffering is ineffective as the graphics card has to double buffer in order to create one image per eye.

 

[Stanners]

Thanks for explaining that, So you can not get fluctuating frame rates with 3D as it is either 30 or 60 fps ?

 

[Final8y]

3d Vision locks the graphics card output to the monitors refresh rate, it has to in order to work. The monitor will be running at 120hz with 60hz going to each eye, therefore the net effect is the game is locked to a maximum of 60hz.

The side effect of this is that if the graphics card cannot maintain 60fps to match the monitor, the framerate has to drop to the next available framerate that matches the monitor and that is 30fps. If you have a game that is hovering around 60 with frequent drops below that it will constantly fluctuate between 30fps and 60fps with nothing in between. (Looks awful.)

Triple buffering is ineffective as the graphics card has to double buffer in order to create one image per eye.

If tripple buffered then it will go quarter steps.

60 45 30

 

[kitch9]

Thanks for explaining that, So you can not get fluctuating frame rates with 3D as it is either 30 or 60 fps ?

Its the same with and v sync locked, double buffered set-up. If you drop below the monitors refresh rate the FPS will be halved..

If tipple buffered then it will go quarter steps.

60 45 30

As I understand it 3d vision cannot be triple buffered due to the logistics of creating two images, one for each eye.

 

[layte]

With 263.09 I was getting 6 FPS in this circumstances, even if it had a few more models then, this is a huge improvement in FPS, getting at least 3x the performance here.

Just FYI this game is 8 yrs old.

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/5048/ffxi20110104172813.jpg

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6518/ffxi20110104172726.jpg

Your lack of the replacement UI fonts makes me cry. http://emikoffxi.livejournal.com/

 

[Rroff]

Very few applications work with triple buffering anyhow (unless forced and even then sometimes it doesn't work).

 

[Balb0wa]

gamma still not saving with these and my gtx570

 

[bee]

Dunno where you're getting your information from but triple buttering works fine with 3d vision enabled, hence why I average 45-50fps

 

[Neil79]

Dunno where you're getting your information from but triple buttering works fine with 3d vision enabled, hence why I average 45-50fps

But only OpenGL sadly

Unless ofcause it's available in game D3D or forcable through D3D Overrider

 

[bee]

But only OpenGL sadly

Unless ofcause it's available in game D3D or forcable through D3D Overrider

Nah 3d vision doesn't work in OpenGL unless you include the hacked dll, triple buffering is enabled in many games seemingly as standard and for the rest ye d3doverrider works a treat even with 3d enabled

 

[Neil79]

Nah 3d vision doesn't work in OpenGL unless you include the hacked dll, triple buffering is enabled in many games seemingly as standard and for the rest ye d3doverrider works a treat even with 3d enabled

Ah cool cool

 

[kitch9]

Dunno where you're getting your information from but triple buttering works fine with 3d vision enabled, hence why I average 45-50fps

I'm gonna run some fraps testing tonight to see.

What your saying would contradict some limited testing and a lengthy thread I was involved in over at Hardforum, but I'll report back with what I find.

 

[Cythx]

Your lack of the replacement UI fonts makes me cry. http://emikoffxi.livejournal.com/

Wanna have a guess where I got my UI font from?

I'll give you a tip, I googled 'ffxistyle'

Above is the ffxistyle UI, below is the italicised font which lacks a distinct black border around the letters.

 

[layte]

Wanna have a guess where I got my UI font from?

I'll give you a tip, I googled 'ffxistyle'

My eyes must be going bad, or that I haven't played in a few years is making my memories go funny. But I could have sworn that was the default UI fonts.

Sometimes seeing screenshots makes me think about going back as I remember doing all sorts of cool stuff with friends (pre easy mode CoP stuff and zerg Dynalord come to mind), then I read scary **** about lv99 level caps and think sod that!

(bah! I'll just blame the pic resizing. )

 

[Things change I've changed]

I can't <right click> and load the 'nvidia control panel' with this driver, any else with the same problem?

 

[V_R]

All good here so far...

 

[Neil79]

I can't <right click> and load the 'nvidia control panel' with this driver, any else with the same problem?

Go into your system control panel, then click on the nvidia control panel through there. When you reboot it should show itself again via right click

 

[Cythx]

My eyes must be going bad, or that I haven't played in a few years is making my memories go funny. But I could have sworn that was the default UI fonts.

Sometimes seeing screenshots makes me think about going back as I remember doing all sorts of cool stuff with friends (pre easy mode CoP stuff and zerg Dynalord come to mind), then I read scary **** about lv99 level caps and think sod that!

(bah! I'll just blame the pic resizing. )

I came back recently knowing about the cap increase, it's true, FFXI is ridiculous in comparison to what it used to be.

It's good in some ways and bad in others, it's probably dissapointing to hard core endgamers because all the content is so easy now, even the insane abyssea mobs and AV/PW are a joke with enough people.

top tier Mnk and Whm can duo almost everything in abyssea too, besides maybe 2 NMs.

However if you're a casual gamer, A LOT more content just became available to you.

 

[mrk]

Hmmm anyone with a GTX460 noticed any improvements? Installing these means rebooting and I'm on 18days up, I want to go for a nerdy month lol.

 

[layte]

However if you're a casual gamer, A LOT more content just became available to you.

300+ days playtime, says I dont qualify for that tag.

Facepalms at spending almost an entire year of my life playing a MMO.