FPS Stutters in Borderless Windowed since just before 7.3

I have been having issues with my game not rendering smoothly in Borderless Windowed mode since just before 7.3 dropped. When I switch to Full Screen it is smooth, but as I need to tab out a lot it would be preferred to find a solution to allow me to return to Bordless Window.

System Specs:
Processor AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor (4.70 GHz)
GPU AMD RX 7900 XTX
Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.1 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Things I have tried:
Turn off HDR
Turn of Discord Overlay
Ensure Drivers are up to date

Any ideas of other things I could try or have overlooked would be appreciated.

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We apologize for any delay or the inconvenience experienced when trying to play Final Fantasy XIV. For us to better assist you, please respond with the following information:
When any disconnect occurs/How often in this mode?
- Any error messages or codes received?
- Does any disconnection happen to one character or multiple characters?

What ISP Is being used?
- Is a VPN being used when this occurs?

How many applications/programs utilized while playing?

May you please provide 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.

Once we have received the requested information, we may look into this issue further.
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When any disconnect occurs/How often in this mode? I have not been having any disconnect issues.
- Any error messages or codes received? I am not getting any error messages.
- Does any disconnection happen to one character or multiple characters? No disconnects have been occuring.

What ISP Is being used? Sail Internet - I have been using this ISP since April and this problem is more recent.
- Is a VPN being used when this occurs? I do not use a VPN.

How many applications/programs utilized while playing? 2-3 not including FFXIV. Typically Discord and Edge.

May you please provide 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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FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn Language 1 Region 2
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AIDA64 Extreme v7.50
AMD Chipset Software
Parsec
Razer Chroma
Razer Synapse
Steam
Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition (English US)
Realtek USB Audio
MSI Center SDK
Razer Log Collector version 4.0.8.3
FINAL FANTASY XIV ONLINE
AMD PPM Provisioning File Driver
AMD_Chipset_Drivers
ENE_External_Device_HAL
WD P40 Game Drive
Corsair Device Control Service
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ENE Video Capture Box HAL
AMD PSP Driver
WD_BLACK AN1500
WD_BLACK D50
AMD SBxxx SMBus Driver
EA app
Promontory_GPIO Driver
ENE_EHD_M2_HAL
ENE_MousePad_HAL
ENE_X_AIC_HAL
Verbatim_SureFireGaming_Product
AMD GPIO2 Driver
Bitwarden
AMD Software
CPUID CPU-Z MSI 2.11
StarLauncher 1.0.285
Parsec Virtual Display Driver
Parsec Virtual USB Adapter Driver
Going Medieval
Guild Wars 2
V Rising
Date Everything!
No Man's Sky
Kingdoms and Castles
Star Trek Online
WD_BLACK AN1500
AMD Settings
ENE_External_Device_HAL
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ENE_EHD_M2_HAL
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Branding64
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AMD Install Manager
Corsair Device Control Service
AMD User Experience Program Installer
Office 16 Click-to-Run Licensing Component
Office 16 Click-to-Run Extensibility Component
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ENE_MousePad_HAL
ENE Video Capture Box HAL
Corsair iCUE5 Software
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Good afternoon! Thank you for posting in the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Forums.

We apologize for any inconvenience experienced when trying to play Final Fantasy XIV. Thank you for providing the requested information. We may suggest the following:

Disable other overlays. Close or disable things like Parsec, Razer Synapse, and other apps that hook into the game as they can interfere with Borderless smoothness.

Disable Full Screen Optimizations. To disable this, please find the "ffxiv_dx11.exe" and right click it and select properties. Then under the compatibility tab there will be a check box labeled "Disable Full Screen Optimizations". Check it and click apply.

Launch the game using DirectX 11 to see if this improves the performance in Borderless mode.

We hope we can be of assistance in helping you enjoy the exciting world of Final Fantasy XIV.

I notice you have 65gb of system RAM, a Ryzen 5 7600X CPU, and a 24GB RX 7900 XTX....

But, you also have:

GRAPHICS Unknown AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
GRAPHICS_CHIP AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x164E)
GRAPHICS_VRAM 32770 MB (32gb)

and

GRAPHICS Unknown Parsec Virtual Display Adapter
GRAPHICS_CHIP Unknown
GRAPHICS_VRAM 56844 MB (56gb)

The first should the CPU's built in GPU cores, but 32gb of VRAM is way off.

The second seems to be some third party virtual monitor program and 56gb of VRAM seems way high.
As your system RAM is 64gb and that is what is used for VRAM for the CPU and that program, the latter program might be siphoning a bit much, so that while in game but also sharing the desktop environment due to borderless Window, the game + Windows + that program might be eating up enough RAM to effect the game performance.

I do not suspect the CPU's VRAM is an issue, as that would only be used when running a display directly off the motherboard's monitor header.... but, still, 32gb for 2 display cores that would struggle on sub 720p seems to be a bit much.
The graphics cores on the CPU are really only for use to do system maintenance sans a video card within BIOS or an OS.
I think you can tone the allocation down in the AMD Radeon chipset program.

That said, try running the game with that Parsec Virtual Display Adapter completely disabled/shut down.

I have this exact same issue except I don't use anything fancy on my PC like Parsec or whatnot. Perfectly normal dual monitor setup, except FFXIV stutters and drops frames like crazy in borderless windowed mode. It almost feels like the game is rendering at the wrong resolution because in full screen I can pretty much cap the game at 240fps, but borderless windowed I can have trouble staying above 170fps.

Sorry for the dely, I wanted to take the time to test these suggestions out. I followed all these suggestions, in addition to looking to any other background programs to not run to see if I could find any improvment and unfortunatley nothing helped improve the situation.

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We apologize if you are continuing the experience stuttering issues while playing FINAL FANTASY XIV Online. Our team would like to provide additional troubleshooting to see if this resolves the issue:

Please re-confirm if your AMD Graphics Driver is fully up to date, as it would appear from your DxDiag that your driver was last updated on 8/24/2025. If so, please do a clean reinstall of the most recent driver. In addition, we also recommend to perform a clean boot by opening the task manager and select the 'Start up' Tab and disable everything. Once done, please restart your PC and launch FINAL FANTASY XIV.

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Hi, sorry to take so long in getting back to this thread. It seems the problem is with HDR support in Windows 11. When I turn off HDR the problem went away. My research shows that in general gamers are having issues with HDR in Windows 11, and I couldn't find any suggested fixes, so it looks like I am stuck waiting for a Microsoft fix.

In Windows settings got to System > Display > Graphics and scroll down to the app list and find FINAL FANTASY XIV, is 'Optimisations for windowed games' on? and is 'Auto HDR' off?

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