Fog graphic glitches on NVidia GTX 970 (pictures)

[Amarysse]

Hi everyone, thanks for all the responses to this. Good to know for absolutely sure that it's not the card. Let's hope NVidia fix the drivers quickly! Thankfully the glitch isn't game-breaking but it is disappointing to see.

Cheeto- yes, I get frame-rate drops when in crowded areas like hunts and Odin, but I've come to expect this and it's far from unplayable, thankfully. Anything is better than the memory leaks I suffered with my previous (AMD) card, which caused the game to drop to less than 5FPS seemingly at random and then crash shortly afterwards!

We're wandering off-topic (although I think we've established what the problem is above) but since we're talking performance: I've been pondering a CPU upgrade recently and was wondering how much impact it might have on FFXIV, which some people have said is fairly CPU-intensive. Currently rocking an i5-2400 at 3.1GHz that I've had for the last few years; any value in upgrading? Or should I just wait for the DX11 client to see if performance improves? I'm far from unhappy with how FFXIV performs, but it would be lovely to have the FPS a little more consistent when out in the open world.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

unfortunately, many performance tests use the benchmark app which doesn't really demonstrate cpu differences at all.

You could get up-to 20% better performance by upgrading to a 3570, of course more then just performance, it will also run slightly cooler and require less power to run.

a 3470, would net you up-to 15% better performance

FF14 is a mixed beast where performance is concerned, it does like having 4 cores available, but it wants them to be efficient and fast.

[GabrielK]

Same issue here on an Asus 980GTX. Card runs at stock speeds.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

Nvidia's community liason has posted that they have got a reproduction of the issue on their machines,

How soon they fix it, is another matter altogether . . .


waited almost 2 years for them to fix a performance issue in the original neverwinter nights once -_-

Are any 9x0 owners getting checkerboard fog in Final Fantasy 14?

a player has posted

In that particular area, yes it happens for me too with the 980:






Otherwise no graphical glitches in the game.


If the driver team wants to reproduce it, the location in the game is "Southern Thanalan (12,34)".

Thank you. We have a repro of this.

[araulkhar]

have similar problèmes with me 970 gtx please need fix!^^

[Amarysse]

Thanks for the update, Squall. Let's hope this gets fixed sooner rather than later! We can but hope.

[Bixby]

Posting for an easy thread subscription, 'cause me too.

[araulkhar]

hope this fix is coming because is not good for play...

[Schmak01]

This is happening with me as well on EVGA 970's, also having a graphical issue with the zone entrance pillars of light, those kill my FPS.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

This is happening with me as well on EVGA 970's, also having a graphical issue with the zone entrance pillars of light, those kill my FPS.

The new cards will get optimised as the drivers get better, im sure.
Those lights are pretty intense on the cpu though.