FPS drop issues in certain areas

Hi,

I hope some techies can help me out with this one. Lately, there has been a 10-15fps drop in certain areas, which didn't used to happen. Examples are Copperbell Mines, Toto-rak and now Coerthas central (during night/snowstorm if that matters). Hope someone can help, thanks!

Here is the system info from the FFXIV Client

- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
- Driver (368.81)

My grafics config is as follows:

- resolution (3840x2160 60hz) native
- screen mode (full screen)
- gamma (61)

- Enable wet surface effects. (on)
- Occlusion Culling (on)
- Use low-detail models on distant objects LOD (on)
- Real-time Reflections (off)
- Edge Smoothing (FXAA)
- Transparent lightning quality (normal)
- Grass Quality (high)
- parallax occlusion (high)
- tessellation (high)
- glare (off)
- map resolution (high)

- Shadows (self display, rest hide)
- Use low detail models on shadows (lod) (off)
- shadow resolution (high)
- shadow cascading (best)
- shadow softening (strong)

- texture filtering (anisotropic)
- anisotropic filtering (x4)

- movement physics (self full, party simple, rest off)

- limb darkening (on)
- radial blur (on)

- screen space ambient occlusion (HBAO+Standard)
- glare (low)

- enable depth of field (on)


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MyDocument C:\Users\Evan\Documents
FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn D:\FFXIV\SquareEnix
FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn Language 1 Region 3
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SYSTEM_OS Windows 10 Home 64-Bit-Version (6.2, Build 9200) (10586.th2_release_sec.160630-1736)
SYSTEM_CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HK CPU @ 2.70GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
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SYSTEM_LANGUAGE Deutsch (Gebietsschema: Deutsch)
SYSTEM_MEMORY 16283.434MB
SYSTEM_VIRTUAL_MEMORY 2047.875MB
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SYSTEM_STORAGE C:\ SYSTEM_HARDDISK_DRIVE SYSTEM_TOTALDISC_SPACE 464.034GB SYSTEM_FREEDISC_SPACE 349.721GB
SYSTEM_STORAGE D:\ SYSTEM_HARDDISK_DRIVE SYSTEM_TOTALDISC_SPACE 931.387GB SYSTEM_FREEDISC_SPACE 802.209GB
SYSTEM_DIRECTX_VERSION DirectX 12
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS Intel(R) HD Graphics 530
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DEVICE \\.\DISPLAY1
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_CHIP Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_MAKER Intel Corporation
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_VRAM 3072.000 MB
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_SHARED_VRAM 1023.938 MB
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DAC Internal
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DISPLAY_MODE 3840 x 2160 (32 bit) (60Hz)
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER igdumdim64.dll,igd10iumd64.dll,igd10iumd64.dll,igd12umd64.dll,igdumdim32,igd10iumd32,igd10iumd32,igd12umd32
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_VERSION 20.19.0015.4390
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_DATE 2/18/2016 00:00:00
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_LANGUAGE Englisch
3.0
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_PIXEL_SHADER 3.0
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_VERTEX_TEXTURE SYSTEM_SUPPORT
SYSTEM_SOUND Lautsprecher (Sound Blaster Recon3Di)
SYSTEM_SOUND_DEVICE_ID {7CAC998C-04D0-4F84-B0FD-57AFCE6FC5A0}
SYSTEM_SOUND_DEVICE_NAME cthda.sys
SYSTEM_SOUND_DRIVER_VERSION 6.00.0100.2058
SYSTEM_SOUND_DRIVER_LANGUAGE Englisch
SYSTEM_SOUND_DRIVER_DATE 10/19/2015 00:00:00
SYSTEM_INPUT {6F1D2B60-D5A0-11CF-BFC7444553540000}
SYSTEM_INPUT_NAME Maus
SYSTEM_INPUT_REMARKS SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_AXIS 3 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_BUTTON 8 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_FOV 0
SYSTEM_INPUT {6F1D2B61-D5A0-11CF-BFC7444553540000}
SYSTEM_INPUT_NAME Tastatur
SYSTEM_INPUT_REMARKS SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_AXIS 0 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_BUTTON 128 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_FOV 0
SYSTEM_INPUT {392AA630-58DA-11E6-8001444553540000}
SYSTEM_INPUT_NAME Steam Controller
SYSTEM_INPUT_REMARKS SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_AXIS 0 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_BUTTON 0 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_FOV 0
SYSTEM_INPUT {392AF450-58DA-11E6-8002444553540000}
SYSTEM_INPUT_NAME Steam Controller
SYSTEM_INPUT_REMARKS SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_AXIS 0 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_BUTTON 0 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_FOV 0
SYSTEM_INPUT {392B4270-58DA-11E6-8003444553540000}
SYSTEM_INPUT_NAME Steam Controller
SYSTEM_INPUT_REMARKS SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_AXIS 0 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_BUTTON 0 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_FOV 0
SYSTEM_INPUT {121602C0-F015-11E5-8002444553540000}
SYSTEM_INPUT_NAME Airplane Mode Switch
SYSTEM_INPUT_REMARKS SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_AXIS 0 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_BUTTON 1 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_FOV 0
SYSTEM_INPUT {121602C0-F015-11E5-8004444553540000}
SYSTEM_INPUT_NAME USB Receiver
SYSTEM_INPUT_REMARKS SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_AXIS 0 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_BUTTON 652 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_FOV 0
SYSTEM_INPUT {392B6980-58DA-11E6-8004444553540000}
SYSTEM_INPUT_NAME Steam Controller
SYSTEM_INPUT_REMARKS SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_AXIS 0 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_BUTTON 0 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_FOV 0
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SYSTEM_INPUT {121677F0-F015-11E5-8006444553540000}
SYSTEM_INPUT_NAME USB Receiver
SYSTEM_INPUT_REMARKS SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_AXIS 0 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_BUTTON 0 SYSTEM_GAMEPAD_FOV 0


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FFXIVLauncher
Search Results - FINAL FANTASY XIV Forum - Google Chrome
SE - Editor
Host für die Windows Shell-Oberfläche


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Google Chrome
Alienware On-Screen Display
Alienware Command Center
Registrierung eines Alienware Produkts
Alienware Graphics Amplifier Software Installer
EMSC
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Version 2.2.1.1043
NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Driver
Steam
Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East
Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x64) - 12.0.30501
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Alienware Customer Connect
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Killer Wireless Drivers
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FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn
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Intel(R) Dynamic Platform and Thermal Framework
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
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Intel(R) Processor Graphics
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EMSC


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C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe 000023A4
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\Update Core\NvBackend.exe 0000089C
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C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_2.15.20002.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SkypeHost.exe 00001764
C:\Users\Evan\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe 00000928
D:\FFXIV\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\boot\ffxivlauncher.exe 0000184C
D:\FFXIV\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\boot\ffxivsysinfo.exe 000011D4

Found the problem: if you lock your fps to 30, it makes the FPS shutter/drop to 15 occasionally and back to normal but if you unlock your FPS, that doesn't occur anymore

(in case anyone had similar problems)

Thread can be closed, thanks