Low frame rates on Gaming PC

[Xiaolin]

I updated to the 13.8 beta drivers and it had no effect whatsoever. I then disabled crossfire running on just my 6870 HD and the framerates improved significantly even in very crowed areas, so this proves that the crossfire support is the issue. Having said that I am getting frequent and rather annoying stutter every 5-10 secs. Making the game not fun to play.

[gl0ry]

I updated to the 13.8 beta drivers and it had no effect whatsoever. I then disabled crossfire running on just my 6870 HD and the framerates improved significantly even in very crowed areas, so this proves that the crossfire support is the issue. Having said that I am getting frequent and rather annoying stutter every 5-10 secs. Making the game not fun to play.

I don't think multicards are supported at the moment. Monitor your GPU usage with two cards enabled. It basically offloads to each card. Often times you'll see the load at 40% and the cards being underclocked in certain areas.

I don't know if the same thing is happening to you with crossfire, but I'm using SLI and I have better or same performance with it disabled. The benchmark actually utilizes SLI properly, but the game itself doesn't.

I don't get constant stutters, but I get no improvement at all with SLI basically. I'm on 2 GTX 780s.

[Solace]

Well, unfortunately neither crossfire or sli are being properly utilized at this point.

The benchmarks uses SLI properly, but I'll tell you with 100% certainty that SLI isn't optimized in the actual game.

There are areas where I get low fps, then change the camera angle slightly and get triple the amount of fps. My card also has very low GPU usage and underclocks itself in a lot of towns.

The only areas that seem to be utilizing sli are dungeons, but I get 100+ fps in them on a single card anyways.

I made this same comment recently.
People dismissed it.
I didn't test my SLI performance but it was not like the bench at all.
I am running a monster PC here.
2x gtx 680 in sli.
I was getting lag in areas though, so I turned my AA off..
I still get lag in some areas and it just does not feel, like my other gpu was being used.

I was hoping someone who tested it would say something..
Anyone test Sli for gpu usage thoroughly?

They said sli would be ready at release..
Idk now..

[Xiaolin]

I did monitor my gpu usage while in x fire and it IS using the secondary adapter so x fire IS supported (just as they said it would be with every official notice Ive seen on the subject), it is however VERY poorly optimized and makes the game run WORSE.

[Solace]

I made a new topic for the sli issue..
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...lized-properly

Sli should NOT degrade performance.
If it's an issue, it needs to be noted and fixed.
They said it would be ready for launch and I was really hoping it would be.

[Aydem]

did you check in the settings and turned up the max frame rate its capped at 30 fps if you install the client

[Blazza]

I made a new topic for the sli issue..
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...lized-properly

Sli should NOT degrade performance.
If it's an issue, it needs to be noted and fixed.
They said it would be ready for launch and I was really hoping it would be.

Early access != launch, I also read it would be ready at launch, so just hold out a couple days and see what happens.

[Senzjo]

on what kind of drive do you have FF installed? (HD/SSD) usually when you have GPU/CPU intesive games installed on a regular SATA drive you get a bit of a hardware lagg because of the read/write operations, specially when moving, because of the constant loading of mapdata
I myself have tera installed on SSD and am running it without problems, no stuttering whatsoever
Sli is fully supported btw :3 i'm running 2 690's (quadSLI)

My Specs:

Intel I7-3960x Stock speeds
Asus Rampage IV Extreme with default settings
32Gb 1600 cl9-9-9-24 X.M.P
Dual GTX690 (326.80 beta) (6040x1080, TriMon surround setup)
installdisk for FF, Samsung 830 series 256Gb SSD)

[Xiaolin]

on what kind of drive do you have FF installed? (HD/SSD) usually when you have GPU/CPU intesive games installed on a regular SATA drive you get a bit of a hardware lagg because of the read/write operations, specially when moving, because of the constant loading of mapdata
I myself have tera installed on SSD and am running it without problems, no stuttering whatsoever
Sli is fully supported btw :3 i'm running 2 690's (quadSLI)

My Specs:

Intel I7-3960x Stock speeds
Asus Rampage IV Extreme with default settings
32Gb 1600 cl9-9-9-24 X.M.P
Dual GTX690 (326.80 beta) (6040x1080, TriMon surround setup)
installdisk for FF, Samsung 830 series 256Gb SSD)

What drive I have it installed on should NOT matter in the least. Its great that YOU can afford to have an SSD as your storage but MOST of us do not and it most certainly isnt an option for me to buy one just so SE doesnt have to properly optimize this game. I run PLENTY of games , online and off, from the same HDD with ZERO stutter.

[Xiaolin]

did you check in the settings and turned up the max frame rate its capped at 30 fps if you install the client

...(sigh) no I do not have it capped at 30fps...(geez)

Game runs on avg around 40fps in town and much higher in low pop areas, the problem that I and others are having is that the game stutters frequently.