Insane memory hogging leading to crashing or crazy lag + catch up

Hi,

I've tried just about everything I can to fix this issue to no avail.

I've tried:
- Repair from the launcher
- Full deletion + reinstall
- Lowering game settings
- Rebooting PC

I'm kind of at a loss for how to fix this and am considering unsubscribing as I feel it's not fair to players in PF that I might just randomly freeze for 10 seconds inexplicably.

I've been playing since launch and have never had this issue until after 6.3 where I read it was supposedly a reported and fixed issue.

Sometimes the game is very tame and will use under a GB of RAM, and then it'll just randomly eat absolutely all of it including my page file on my SSD.

Here's a paste of my system settings. Any help or advice appreciated. Thanks!



-=-=-=-=-=-=- FFXIV Information -=-=-=-=-=-=-

MyDocument C:\Users\drexx\Documents
ProxyEnable 0
ProxyServer unspecified
ProxyOverride unspecified


-=-=-=-=-=-=- System Information -=-=-=-=-=-=-

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-=-=-=-=-=-=- Application Information -=-=-=-=-=-=-

Task Manager
FFXIVLauncher
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Greetings Adventurer!

We would like to apologize for the inconvenience regarding this issue. However, we would like to assist with your concern. Please try the following to see if they help:
- Try switching to DirectX 9 or DirectX 11 (if able) by selecting the ‘Config’ button on the launcher.
- Update and reinstall the drivers for your graphics card and sound drivers.
- Perform a clean boot by opening the task manager and select the 'Start up' Tab. Disable everything.
- Please be sure that Final Fantasy XIV is installed to the C: Drive.
- Please be sure to disable or remove any overlays (Discord, Steam, NVIDIA etc.) as they may interfere with startup.
- Make sure that the Windows OS is fully updated.
- Install game on different drive. (If Steam version, make sure game and Steam are installed on same drive)
- Reinstall game after attempting all the steps above.

If you do not see an improvement, please feel free to respond to this thread for further troubleshooting.

Thank you for contacting the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

Just wanted to reply for others out there, I did manage to fix this. I did two things and I'm not sure which resolved it.

- Updated my graphics driver
- Opened ports 2031-2032 on my router firewall

Best of luck to anyone else having this issue!

Figured I needed to reply to say the issue is back...kind of ridiculous, but I'll work my way through the other suggestions.

EDIT: So it still saps all of my ram...but eventually stops and uses less than 500MB of it. Really not sure why this occurs.

This is going to sound strange:

Check the health of your SSD. What you are describing is the exact issue I had when I had installed a defective SSD: I would have lag where actions would 'complete' as in I'd see buffs and the like applying and unapplying, with no animations or sound.. and then all of them happening at once. Replaced the SSD and it was resolved. If you can check you SSD's health, I'd recommend it.

I appreciate the unique response, but I don't believe it's it as I have other games on my SSD that run without issue. This is strictly an FFXIV problem unfortunately.

EDIT: Yep, SSD health is fine.