FFXIV 4k performance

Hi all,

I recently upgrade my GPU from G780 to G1080 (2nd hand) with I7 4k with plenty of RAM (64G). I having bit of performance issue after I changed the resolution from 1.4k to 4k. I barely get 40-50FPS with max setting. Is this FPS about right or am I doing something wrong?

the 1080 isnt a great 4k card, the 1080ti is better for 4k/60. ram doesnt matter. i7 should be overclocked, because it needs CPU power too.

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Originally Posted by skyfox

Hi all,

I recently upgrade my GPU from G780 to G1080 (2nd hand) with I7 4k with plenty of RAM (64G). I having bit of performance issue after I changed the resolution from 1.4k to 4k. I barely get 40-50FPS with max setting. Is this FPS about right or am I doing something wrong?

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That's within the spec yes. The latest driver update however seems to have lost 3FPS somewhere, normally It's a solid 50+ under all conditions for a GTX 1080 (non-Ti)

You can flip anti-aliasing off (it doesn't improve anything at this resolution), and you may want to go into the nVidia control panel driver settings and make sure multi-threaded rendering is enabled and PhysX is on the GPU.

Mine is set this way:
http://i.imgur.com/SLWKpwK.png

Depending on your monitor, you may want to try Adaptive VSync, that may eliminate tearing completely.

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Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi

That's within the spec yes. The latest driver update however seems to have lost 3FPS somewhere, normally It's a solid 50+ under all conditions for a GTX 1080 (non-Ti)

You can flip anti-aliasing off (it doesn't improve anything at this resolution), and you may want to go into the nVidia control panel driver settings and make sure multi-threaded rendering is enabled and PhysX is on the GPU.

Mine is set this way:
http://i.imgur.com/SLWKpwK.png

Depending on your monitor, you may want to try Adaptive VSync, that may eliminate tearing completely.

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Thanks! i will try that tonight!

I have a 1080 and an i7 4700. I have no problems maintaining 60 fps at 4k.

So I did a bit of testing with the Adaptive VSync, and well, YMMV. You may need to turn the frame limiter off for it to actually do anything. What I noticed is that as soon as I turned the frame limiter off, it smoothed out a little, but it created a strange panning-wobble that I found distracting. So make sure to test that with the frame limiter on or off, as it may depend on your monitor's response time. I normally just run it at 60fps limited.

I'm using a 1070 at 4k and I get about 35-40FPS at max settings, so that's probably about right.

For anti-aliasing not doing anything at 4k resolution, it definitely does. I was toying with it turning it off and on and you can watch the difference.

Bit OT but 64GB of ram? I hope you do more than gaming on that rig cause that's very overkill i'd say.

You might try two things:

Run the game in Full Screen, and see if it makes a difference.

Check your setting for Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, and set it to a lower setting.