Inexplicably low fps in FFXIV with Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
Hi!
I have been playing FFXIV for a few months now; I'm still a fairly new player.
My desktop PC was built about 3 years ago, and I was on a low budget, so the specs are limited -- however, I was running the game just fine at a constant 60fps for the start of my playtime.
After I had bought the complete edition of the game and installed it, I was greeted with an unplayable 8 FPS in Limsa Lominsa. At this time I had the game on High (Desktop) graphics settings and was using DX11. Changing the graphics to the lowest settings possible, disabling Vsync and moving into a less populated area still didn't help my FPS as much as I hoped: I had around 20fps.
However, I fixed this issue by changing to DX9. I once again had a stable 60fps, until early April when I renewed my subscription. This is when my fps problems resumed.
Currently, on the lowest possible graphics settings in-game, my GPU (Nvidia GeForce GTX 960) settings for the game all at the lowest with Vsync disabled, with the newest Graphics drivers, playing in Borderless Windowed mode (Fullscreen doesn't fix the issue) and on DirectX9 (Even though I have DX12 installed, booting into DX11 has an even lower FPS and usually gives me a "fatal directx error" after a few minutes of playing), my FPS is lower than 20 in Revenant's Toll and Limsa Lominsa, just under 30 in low populated areas and the same in dungeons; I feel that moving on from casual content when it becomes available will be impossible with how the game is running.
On startup, ff14 runs at over 100fps for a solid 5 minutes, and gradually decreases to 60 at which it takes a huge drop all the way to ~30.
My specs are the following:- Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
- Windows 10, latest version
- Intel Core i5-6400 CPU
- 1920x1080 60HZ display
I believe these specs are fully capable of running the game at a higher FPS than I am at now, especially since I have no other applications open when playing, I could run at 60fps before and running the Shadowbringers benchmark in the same environment gives me a score of 9671 (Extremely High). I might be delusional, and this might be the highest my current pc can go, but I doubt it.
I have been looking on the forums for a while and have found multiple people with the same issues, but I can't seem to find definitive fixes for what is happening to me. I have tried pretty much anything I can find or think of that doesn't involve me touching or replacing the internal parts of the PC, or messing in the BIOS, as I am not experienced with these things.
Any help would be very appreciated. I know I have said a lot here, but I wanted to get the information in the original post so that people are informed of my situation and don't have to spend too long trying to figure out the issue :o
Thanks,
Feen