Nvidia drivers - FFxiFollow

Ok, I'm having a very annoying problem w/ driver updates, any help would be much appreciated.

To start off here is how my problem *happened*.
Firstly, transparent objects (when your invisable, avatars, etc) would have gaps in them; like lines and dots that shouldnt be there. I played with the settings and it would not go away.

Then I talked to a tech support guy via support chat on playonline.com and he told me to download a specific driver, something like 61.59 because that one was proven to work with FFxi. (the one he recomended would be an older one then I was using)

Well, I went to thier website and all you can download there is teh latest driver. I downloaded that and installed it. (first uninstalling my current display driver).

Magicaly the lines were gone. Now came a new problem. When ever some very fast animation** (for lack of better word) occurs, the game will temporarily freeze, then when it is over, the game will suddenly work almost perfectly again.
**like a critical hit or Mnk's boost

I heard I can find websites that archive video card drivers. If anyone knows of a trustworthy one please tell me. Also if anyone knows if this is not the problem, please tell me.

-Computer stats-
Operation system: Windows XP
Processor: AMD Athelon XP 3200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2Ghz
Memory: 1024 MB RAM

Video Card: Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
Total Memory: 256 Mb
Version: 71.89

Edited, Tue Apr 26 18:01:37 2005 by Eonz

on another thread this guy says he has a 5700 and is encountering similar problems.

Also, lol, could you explain the driver cleaner? Is it already on my computer or do i have to go get it somewhere?

ugh :\ i tried the driver cleaner but it did not seem to help..

also its not my settings, I have messed w/ ffxi and my video card settings and it seems to have minimal effect on this problem.

I find this wierd because with a previous driver I never had these problems. I had the same video card on an older, slower computer, which got lag when 3+ people swarmed around me. So I upgraded to the new computer which I showed the stats of above.

Now the game in general runs much faster but this very annoying thing happens when I boost, I just also found out its very bad with bard songs.

Do I just need a better video card?

Or is there a way to download a previous driver? But I'm afraid then WoW wont work because I had to download a new driver for some reason to get it working smoothly.

Thanks for your help..

I would go ahead and get a newer video card.
Even if your 5200 did work properly, your system has the potential for much higher quality graphics with a newer card.

I've been using ATI cards for a while, but it should be easy to google for nvidia's previous driver releases.

you can download all of nvidia's previous drivers off their website, just have a look in the archive!