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Title: FF8 Slowdowns
Post by: Olie on 2008-01-20 11:02:47

well while i am playig FF8 whenever i get hit by fire or summon a GF or something my FPS drops down alot. this a graphics or CPU problem?

Title: Re: FF8 Slowdowns
Post by: yoshi314 on 2008-01-20 19:52:01

some gfx cards have problems when sprites appear on screen.

most special fx in ff8 (or in psx/ps2 games in general) involve messing with framebuffer, which usually slows down most gfx cards to a crawl (that's not a typical pc application of gfx hardware).

Title: Re: FF8 Slowdowns
Post by: Olie on 2008-01-21 06:28:44

ahh ok

lagg isent to bad it is only for a moment. when i had settings on Max the game had a low FPS  :(

i got a 6600 OC'ed to keep up with a 7800  :|

thanks for teh answer :D