FF8 Slowdowns

[Olie]

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?

[yoshi314]

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).

[Olie]

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