I have an I7-7700 and a GTX 1070 and I cant even run at 16X anisotropic with all HD dats at 60 fps I have to run at 8 this game blows for FPS and beauty always has
well I get 60 most of the time but will lag in heavily populated areas or Alliance content
Is that on a laptop? My 1070 laptop running dgvoodoo2 is not struggling at all. The problem that I had with frame drops in town and stuff was due to the parking / power saving on the processor that basically thinks FFXI is too light to warrant more processing power. I.e it's so old it expects processor to run on full.
Going into power settings and changing the details of the plan to make the minimum processor from 0% (default) while plugged to 30% or there about made everything go silky smooth.
I settled on 30% after checking how much FFXI used (22% ish for me) after forcing it to run at 100%.
Tldr: you need to make sure your processor isn't power saving / parking cause FFXI is too old and struggle instead of telling the processor it needs more juice.