FPS dropped after optimisation with Nvidia Experience.

This is not a huge problem, but it's frankly irritating as I see no reason for it. I moved my game onto my SSD from my HD - this gave me a stable FPS of 120+. However, after the use of Nvidia Experience - the FPS dropped to 30-45fps at maximum. From what I can recall, all it did was change two options - I can't remember them at the moment, but I was able to switch them back to the previous settings. Still no dice, the game is sat at 30-45fps. I should note - that the options the optimiser put me on were lower in demand than what I originally had selected.

I'm assuming that Nvidia has changed something somewhere which can't be edited through the in-game settings.

Is there any guidance on where I should look, any numbers I should be tweaking for it to stop doing this?

Oh, and my FPs is not capped. Switching this option on and off doesn't fix the issue.


Tldr = Game at max settings in full-screen window mode = fps 120+
Game optimised by Nvidia in full-screen window mode = 30-45fps with fewer max settings.

edit- silly butt me, thinks Nvidia optimised for 4k - so might be that, which is acceptable.

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I'm a little confused about your edited post, were you able to resolve the issue by changing the settings back? If not, can you reply back with a System Report? Simply go to the 'Config' option on the Final Fantasy XIV launcher and to the right of 'System Information' click on 'Display.'

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Sweet Twelve, never use GeForce Experience "optimizations". It is however, a good source of information about what each setting does, but tune it yourself for either performance or eyecandy, both if you have the GPU overhead to spare. Personally I hate HBAO+, weird halo shadows around stuff...also eats framerates for in my opinion, uglier lighting. I turn it off with glee

I haven't been able to change it back to normal no, it has remained like this. I honestly figured it was normal due to the display mode and graphics card, etc. Anyway, here's some info.

SYSTEM_OS Windows 10 Home 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (17134.rs4_release.180410-1804)
SYSTEM_CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7600 CPU @ 3.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.5GHz
SYSTEM_CORE_NUM SYSTEM_CORE_LOGIC 4 SYSTEM_CORE_PHYSICS 4
SYSTEM_BIOS 3002
SYSTEM_LANGUAGE English (Regional Setting: English)
SYSTEM_MEMORY 16327.281MB
SYSTEM_VIRTUAL_MEMORY 134217727.875MB
SYSTEM_PAGE_FILE 29127.281MB
SYSTEM_STORAGE C:\ SYSTEM_HARDDISK_DRIVE SYSTEM_TOTALDISC_SPACE 222.262GB SYSTEM_FREEDISC_SPACE 59.488GB
SYSTEM_STORAGE D:\ SYSTEM_HARDDISK_DRIVE SYSTEM_TOTALDISC_SPACE 931.387GB SYSTEM_FREEDISC_SPACE 286.225GB
SYSTEM_DIRECTX_VERSION DirectX 12
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DEVICE \\.\DISPLAY1
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_CHIP GeForce GTX 1070
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_MAKER NVIDIA
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_VRAM 8088.000 MB
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_SHARED_VRAM 8163.641 MB
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DAC Integrated RAMDAC
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DISPLAY_MODE 3840 x 2160 (32 bit) (60Hz)
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_b49751b9038af669\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_b49751b9038af669\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_b49751b9038af669\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_b49751b9038af669\nvldumdx.dll
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_VERSION 26.21.0014.3086
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_DATE 5/22/2019 01:00:00

Thank you for the update Gwenorai.

I'm not sure what the Nvidia optimizations did, but playing the game at 4K resolution with this graphics card would probably result in 30-45 fps.

Were you playing the game at a lower resolution before? if so, try changing back to that resolution.

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I'm pretty sure Nvidia just kicked it up to 4k resolution as I didn't bother to do it myself. The game seems to work rather well at this fps so I can't complain all that much. I'll play around with it, see if it's worth actually worth being at that resolution.

Thank you so much for your help.

Thank you for the update Gwenorai.

As the issue has been resolved, this thread will be moved to Closed Concerns.

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