Getting artifacts and flickering

[dagz]

On my ffxi character (tarutaru) mostly his hair and parts of his clothes start to flicker when I am in game. In certain zones the flickering is worse and in other zones it is better like in a city. I switched to my 9800pro and it was nearly gone but I still noticed it very little. I then switched to a ti4400 and the problem reappeared again. My original card is a pny geforce 6800gt. I tried nearly all the drivers but still no help, what should I do? Is anyone having any other problems with there 6800gt similar to this? I wonder if this is a driver problem or a problem on FFXI's end or maybe (my luck) both my ti4400 cards and 6800gt is both broke. I wonder if I should just RMA it..

The things I have tried are:
Lower AGP speed to 4X
Disable fastwrites
Underclock my card
Reformat Windows XP
Tried nearly every supported driver.
Update my bios to 1009


AMD 3500+
Asus A8v deluxe
1gb corsair pc3200
100gb WD HD 7200rpm
550 watt power supply (did a test on it too)
pny 6800gt 256 (temp idle 55-58)
Windows XP (tried a reformat)

 

[bovinda]

That sounds like it might be a problem within the game. It seems unlikely to me that all those cards would be funky. I don't know why a video card would only produce flickering for a single character and nothing else unless there was something wrong with the programming, but I may just not know. Hopefully someone else who knows better can confirm, or someone who's played the game can verify for you.

Good luck.

 

[dagz]

Thanks for replying.

I tried a ti4600 and now I am about to try a whole new power supply. If this problem still happends then I will try it on a whole new rig tomorrow. My luck I buy a new nvidia video card when I am mostly playing this game and the game doesnt run correctly with nvidia cards probably...

Video can be found here (191kb)

http://www.geocities.com/mike_dagz/ffxiflicker.avi

Right click and select save as please.


edit:

Ok just tried a new power supply and it still is doing the same thing.
So now we are down to either the hard drive, motherboard or cpu. If neither of this is it then it is a game problem =\