LOW FPS - GTX 660 Ti I5 2500K ~13 fps in towns

[Ranebow]

I've given up trying to troubleshoot this game. It just doesn't work on PC properly at all.




Just panning the camera nearly halves FPS so clearly something is very wrong with the game.

Hello, you touch on something very important. Panning the camera, even in scenes where there's VERY little activity, can result in significant frame rate loss. However if you strafe with your character back and forth, there is no performance hit. The reason I mention strafing is that when you are panning the camera, your field of vision changes and more data is rendered on each side of your vision (on screen). Strafing produces the same result. Since there is no change in frame rate, the culprit originates with the panning. Also consider that in these spots, while there is little activity on screen that you can see with the naked eye, you are probably facing what I call a hot spot - this could be a crystal, camp or some type of hub with npcs, players and buildings, yet those objects are not rendered on screen. Possibly the culling function is broken in the options, however that does not explain the panning vs. strafing aspect.

Keep in mind this is not the same as pure performance hits. I.e. when standing in Gridania facing the crystal with eight five people around it, is going to eat your CPU whether you pan the camera or not.

I am aware that most MMO's are very CPU intensive in cities or when there are many players around in general.

However, the issue with final fantasy is that even without lots of people, just panning the camera results in violent fps drops and with no real reason. At the start it seemed like the panning fps drops was because the character/details were being loaded but in fact it happen each time you pan the camera even standing on the same spot. I would guess that the details/characters would only need at least one first time to cache and be loaded however, each time you look to the same spot multiple times the drops occur.

The weird thing is that the drops do not only happen in cities or around multiple players but it's consistent throughout the game. I can even do some FATES that do not have fps drops.

I believe there is something wrong going on with the game or gpu drivers at the moment.

My Specs:

Asrock Extreme 4 Z77
Core i5 3570k 4.2Ghz
Evga GTX 680
8 GB DDR3 Corsair CL8 1600 Mhz

It would be lovely to ear something from the developers regarding this.

Hello, see above. It is not just you however I would question whether it's happening everywhere for you. Note my comment(s) on what you are facing on screen when it occurs.