High end computer getting low FPS in city.

Hello everyone!

I am currently experiencing city fps drops. In the wild im running at 80-120 FPS. When I go to limsa or any major city with a larger exposed area of players it dips down to as low as 30 fps, the average being 40. When I pan my camera around the other way it will go back up.

MY system:

i5-3570k OC'd to 4.7ghz cooled with H70 liquid (50c under load)
Nvidia Geforce 680 GTX
MSI z77A-GD65 military class III
8GB gskill x 1866mhz
128 Corsair SSD Read: 550mb/s Write: 520mb/s

Any help with this issue would be great, its extremely annoying to have a $1500 system and not be able to play it correctly. The optimization in this game seems to be bad.

Still looking for a solution, bump :D

I'm in the same boat running a crossfire setup - 100fps+ in the field, 30-40 in the city/near atherytes. It happens to everyone - I've a friend running a Geforce Titan and even he drops into the 40's in these locations. Frankly, 99% of people who says they get a constant 60+ fps are lying to not only us but themselves right now (benching in an open field with no PC's around and getting 100+ fps doesn't count as an honest indication of performance). Also, the benchmark is more or less irrelevant tbh as although it shows you can play the game the performance displayed is inaccurate.

Its most likely the result of CPU handling than GPU raw power (trolls - notice I wrote 'handling' and not bottlenecking etc). Hopefully future optimisations will even things out a bit more.

Personally, I'm sat on the edge of my seat waiting for decent crossfire drivers - Although I love the high fps at times, Towns and Atherytes are actually running worse with crossfire enabled right now :(

i7 3770k @ 5ghz
GTX 780 SLI @ 1071/6500

You're not the only person experiencing weird FPS issues. I have a system that should be easily capable of running any setting I want. There are a lot of unoptimized areas and SLI doesn't even work properly 90% of the time. Also introduces weird micro stutters and slowdown.

It's the game not you. Trust me.

That's typical for most MMO's.. framerate will always drop in town due to the amount of players. You probably have the same issues when in a zerg doing Fates,etc..Your processor can only handle so many animations. It's more of a hardware limitation than coding. 30-50fps in town is not a big deal.That's pretty good considering lol..Really, few games if any are going to get you max fps in towns. My suggestion is to get used to it.. not going to improve much but that's just my opinion and advice from experience. Good luck ;)

Thats so weird, I have a friend who has a similar system, just with the 770 gtx and seems to run at 60 FPS in town consistantly (ive seen it at his place) SO I have no idea what it is. I know he has an asus 87z pro MB, i5-4670k @ 4.7ghz, 8gb of 1866 ram and the 770gtx. So I just dont understand it.

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Originally Posted by Dovienya

That's typical for most MMO's.. framerate will always drop in town due to the amount of players. You probably have the same issues when in a zerg doing Fates,etc..Your processor can only handle so many animations. It's more of a hardware limitation than coding. 30-50fps in town is not a big deal.That's pretty good considering lol..Really, few games if any are going to get you max fps in towns. My suggestion is to get used to it.. not going to improve much but that's just my opinion and advice from experience. Good luck ;)

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It's not a CPU issue if CPU usage isn't above 60%.

Been this way for every MMORPG. It's not bad optimization , it's because there's tens of people on screen at once.
Even WoW slows down on high end computers when there's alot going on.
Im on a 760 and get about 30-40fps in the towns when they are busy.

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Originally Posted by stuntdubs

Been this way for every MMORPG. It's not bad optimization , it's because there's tens of people on screen at once.
Even WoW slows down on high end computers when there's alot going on.
Im on a 760 and get about 30-40fps in the towns when they are busy.

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That's not an excuse. There has to be a reason why it is like this. CPU and GPU usage isn't even maxed when this happens.

There is no fix. There never will be. Accept it.