FPS drop to 3 from 168 in certain activites.

As the title says, i've been experiencing massive FPS drops. I noticed it when i started getting them when I used a limit break, but when other people use it, its fine. Also a very random spot is when I'm fishing and i hook a fish, it drops to 3fps again. Also noticed it when leviathan slams onto the boat, and during a main scenario when ultima weapon uses ultima in the cut scene. I've turned off v-sync, put my settings to laptop low, updated my graphics drive, i've turned of dx11 to dx9, switched to borderless window mode. I just cant figure out what it is. Assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Here is my system information i copied of the client.



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Revert your NVidia drivers to last march, 2018. It's a driver problem. I have similiar issues with any driver past that date with my 1080ti and 1070. Either NVidia has made their drivers incompatible with XIV or SE has done something to make the game incompatible.

For me it only seems to happen with I play in 4k mode with the newer drivers.

Thank you for posting in the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

How long have you been experiencing the FPS drop? Does this only happen in one a area? Does the frame rate drop anywhere else, such as raids?

Hope to see you online!

Have you tried a minimal boot? No autorun applications selected in msconfig?
Do you have the win10 game mode activated? Deactivate it.
Set Frame Limiter in FFXIV to None.