Un Cap FPS?

ok. as most of us know. FFXI has a caped frame rate of 29.x frames per second. i have a really high end system and would like to get the most out of the game graphically. is there any way to spice things up? increase graphical shinies and unlock that 29 FPS cap?
or is the game unable to run at faster FPS without issues or glitches?

As far as I know, FFXI is completely unable to run at higher than the 29 FPS cap. You can, however, increase the rendering resolution that FFXI uses through some registry editing. Nothing major, and if you use Windower, it can do those edits for you.

The graphics can be enhanced using direct mods to the registry/FFXI config app. or using Windower.

Here's some info from the wiki - http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Graphics

The FPS cap will never be adjusted and is the biggest limitation in the game engine.

Yeah :/
I have seen a actually seen a like a 34 pop up once, bahaha:)

Nothing big though, at all. Just happens sometimes, you know?

Yeah, I've gotten the odd 31s and such before too, but it immediately goes right back to 29. Damn old engines and their arbitrary FPS caps (inb4 PS2 limitations).

lolps2limitations!


ohwait


:3

Shhh, I can hear the drool dripping on the floor from the 3 people who still use a PS2 to play FFXI nearby, not worth the caps lock bitchfest.

I played on Ps2 for a few months (Maybe 2 or 3?) straight when my old pc blew out. Motherboard was fried from a storm that knocked the power out.

I have Xi on every console, but I have to be in a certain mood to play on 360 now days >.>


Xbox is downstairs, so it's freezing cold BUT I have a comfy *** couch so yeah xD


360 plays the game beautifully. But my pc > all. D:

I'm not saying a word...

Ahahahaa Yeah I know what you mean there, I've never crashed during a besieged but I do believe I have during Campaign. It suuucked.

But other than that I think it's fine. I just hate not having spell cast though ._.;

When the game was originally written for the PS2, they were stuck with a static frame rate. Knowing this, and having no plans to expand to PC or other platforms at the time, the original game engine coders decided to rely on this static 29 FPS to code other parts of the system.

Player movement rate, animation speed, and even the skill cooldown timers are all "timed" off this expected 29 FPS. It was a shortcut that ended up worming its way deeply into the code, and was then ported to PC and 360 intact.

Raising the FPS is easy. The hooks and such for DirectX code in Windower support it. The problem is, if you change the cap, the client breaks because it can no longer correctly play animations, move your character at the right speed, or correctly time skills. And there are no longer the core engine coders left on the XI team nor the budget to rewrite it.

blah... something i would truly <3 SE, if they make a completely new game engine for PC. aka sexy-fie the game. keeping PS2 support. but making a whole new engine for PC that has higher resolution. custom textures more shrubbery (that you can walk through and not get stuck auto-running on) and frame rate. also use some new technology in use by DX10+ games like... making water look more like water. rather then a big blue yonder. it CAN be done. Ultima Online has 3 different clients for there game. (then again the game is old as dirt and even the newest engine kinda blows graphically)
just sucks having an over the edge bad-*** computer that the main game being played on it can do just fine with a PIII 1.2 ghz processor. and not be able to get no more then 29 fps..

guess that's a dream that's just not gonna happen lol

if FFXI does die. i hope FFXIV will have more possibilities down the road for upgrades editing and such. just got my new video card in today and it runs it @60 FPS (seems to be the new cap. much better then 29) other then in cities around the adventure guild where everyone hangs out. at the time the biggest limitation on FFXIV is network. being just about everything is server side with that game being beta an all. i hope that changes when commercial release comes out.

as far as XIV goes, for some time in the beta the fps cap was 120, they lowered it to 60 to get rid of some crashing problems though so... seems possible it may come back in retail or some time after, but just my guess