HAHAHAH that's a laugh. SE doesn't care enough about this game to do this. It's still piss poor emulation. It runs max 30 FPS and runs almost entirely on your processor. Yeah, when I was still play FFXI regularly I had to use really old drivers, otherwise various elements within the game would drop me down to about 2-4 FPS to the point that it was unplayable. It's been a piss poor emulation of PS2 for over 3 years, so I doubt they'll be patching jack any time soon. My computer can run Doom3 cranked all the way up without skipping a beat... but you try to play FFXI on it... no beans. Even the drivers I'm currently using don't fix all of the problems. I still drop to about 10 FPS after a teleport (near crag crystals) or during certain spell animations and certain glowing things (cutscenes with the Shadow Lord).Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF
Surely you can patch the drivers back a couple of iterations? I know that sounds counterintuitive, but it should be possible. Or just wait until they update FFXI to be compatable.
As for other games being too old to play... I'd almost say that nothing is too old to play. You can almost always get something to essentially emulate old software and hardware on newer machines. There are plenty of DOS emulators and old style mouse emulators to make your newer machine recognize and play older games. You just have to know where to look.
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