NP, I'm not 100% sure that FTC works exactly like ltc but it should be similar in that they both use the salsa208

Don't even bother mining the sha256 with GPUs, you should try either mining FTC/ltc or if you can get your hands on an ASIC then you might be able to break even. You're a couple years late to the party.

Step 2 is to overclock the memory(25mhz steps every 30 seconds) until the display driver crashes, now set the mem clock to the one before the crash and change the intensity to 18. Also set the thread concurrency to the number from the generated .bin file in the cgminer dir (the one after g2tc) you can also set the shader to 0 now. Restart it and now find the highest engine clock and there should be sweet spot where the hash rate drops drastically. You should now be able to get around the same hash rate that your card should get based on the mining hardware comparison on the litecoin wiki. If you aren't able to then you need to use the 12.8 driver and the opencl that comes with it.

Peak oil ofc #nwo

scrypt or sha256 mining?

Only buy if you're willing to take a loss in the short term, I don't see the price hitting 100 again until there is wide spread adoption/mainstream which is impossible when the only exchange is centralized.

Okay open your cgminer.conf (download cgminer 3.1.0 windows built) if you don't have one start with the example.conf and save it as cgminer.conf. Set intensity to 13, lookup-gap 2, work size 256, shaders for 6850 960 or
for a 6870 1120, kernel scrypt, and make sure you have a valid pool leave everything else alone. Now create a new text file in the same directory call it mine.bat -> save as (select All files instead of .txt). The first 2 lines should have  setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1 followed by cgminer.exe --api-listen --auto-fan on the next line. Save it and then double click the bat file, after it runs stable for 5-10 minutes you're ready to start the more complicated part.

This is because the scrypt algorithm is fundamentally different from how the sha256 is solved. Without going into too much detail the official difficulty is relative to the entire hash rate of the network so that a block will be found every x minutes. Smaller pools use a lower difficulty because the rounds are much longer.

Before I post a wall of text, what version of ati catalyst are you running? Also when configuring scrypt mining you generally want to configure it to use the least amount of power.