Poor FPS with high-end rig?

[animapain]

I have (2)GTX 780s overclocked, i7 3770k @ 5ghz. I score 22.5k on the benchmark.

In game I get 30fps at horizon. The issue is that the game isn't well optimized, and certainly not for SLI. The benchmark runs SLI great, but the actual game barely has it enabled if even so at all. Gpu usage goes down to 40% on both cards and the GPU downclocks even though I force it.

The only areas that seem to be optimized well are the instances. I easily get 200+fps in them.

Incase many people haven't noticed, funny how it's only Nvidia cards hmmm?

[Lexiel]

Incase many people haven't noticed, funny how it's only Nvidia cards hmmm?

Yeah, pretty much for now only nVidia users, but in the old thread about same issue in the beta-forums there was some AMD card users too.

[Midnight]

It sounds more like the CPU or HD is what's getting bogged down. If GPU drops below 50% that's usually indication of a bottleneck elsewhere. It would not surprise me if it's CPU since FFXIV is DX9 only and doesn't fully utilize quad core or higher CPU's.

[Xiaolin]

It sounds more like the CPU or HD is what's getting bogged down. If GPU drops below 50% that's usually indication of a bottleneck elsewhere. It would not surprise me if it's CPU since FFXIV is DX9 only and doesn't fully utilize quad core or higher CPU's.

W. T. F.

Seriously?? Is this true?? UGH. LAME Square LAME. Quad cores are quite old now and not supporting them is just STUPID.
What morons do you have coding this game anyway?? NOT inspiring faith thats for damn sure.

At any rate I have my own thread on performance issues with a Radeon 6870 HD the game runs at acceptable frames with most settings at max but there is an unacceptable stutter that happens every 5-10secs that makes the game not fun to play.