Framerate slowly deteriorating

I have been standing around in dawntrail "town 2" for most of the day crafting to doing ventures. I locked frames to 60. over time, this eventually drops to around 45. if i reboot the game, rejoin the exact same instance, it jumps back up to 60. has happened in the past several days as well

is there a way to "reload UI" or clear some kind of cache in game, or do i need to reboot the game every time to fix it

or maybe this is a "memory leak" or something (whatever that really is IDK)

specs:

RTX 3080
i9 11700 KF
32 GB ram
SSD install nvme2

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What Platform are you using? (Steam/Windows/Mac/PS4 etc.) - Steam
At what point does the issue occur? - Usually after an hour+ of run time. Upon launching, I keep 60 FPS in high traffic areas. I have frames locked to 60 FPS
How often does the issue occur? - Always

Are you running any additional programs alongside Final Fantasy XIV? - Brave Browser, Steam, Discord
Does the issue occur with one character or multiple characters? - Only have one character
When the issue happens, is the PC over heating at all? - No, temps are 75C tops CPU and 60 tops GPU
Were any update or changes made to the PC around the time of the issue? - No, other than the Dawntrail expansion install
Does this issue occur if the game is run in full screen mode? Does it happen in borderless or windowed mode? - I play borderless window


system info appears to have PII on it and i dont want to share that. sorry

Have this problem too and only restarting fixes it.

Windows Version
Happens in cities
after a few hours / visitting dense areas like cities, especially Solution 9

1. FFXIV, Discord, iCUE, Opera GX
2. I have only one character
3. No overheating
4. No changes, only DT update.
5. No, only occurs after going into densely populated cities. GPU usage drops from the usual 90 - 100% usage down to 60%, and CPU becomes capped at 25% usage. specs below.

5900x Ryzen CPU
7900XTX 24GB
48GB 3200 MHZ
Playing from Gen4 NVME SSD
3440 x 1440

I am also experiencing this gradual framerate loss since Dawntrail.
As others have said, the issue arises from being in dense areas like cities such as Tuliyollal/Solution 9 for an extended period of time, usually a few hours (between 1-3). Restarting the game or logging out and back in resolves it.

I play on Steam version.

1. FFXIV, Discord, Google Chrome
2. I have only one character
3. No overheating, CPU is between 60~70C, GPU is between 45~60C
4. No changes to drivers made
5. I run in Borderless Window mode.

Intel i7-8700k CPU
Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti
16GB RAM@3200 Mhz
Samsung EVO SSD
1920 x 1080 Resolution

Why is this thread https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-Launch/page14 not getting any red responses because I am pretty sure alot of these are the very same issue in there.

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