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

[C-croft]

We're probably going to have to sit back and wait for new Nvidia drivers. Probably see some beta drivers within a week or two.

[JamieLee]

Actually it might be a problem with the newer cards with the nvidia drivers..


Took a older pc i had laying around and Decided to do a little playing..

1920x1080 frame capped to 60 fps
settings maximum
ran around ULD
lowest city fps 20 fps in trade district with 100+ people
average city fps outside of that was 30-45

50-60 fps everywhere else..

Test system was a intel core 2 quad @3.01 ghz
8 gb Consair DDR 3 1600mhz memory@1600 mhz
Nvidia geforce gtx 460 PNY OC edition

[Ranebow]

Dual intel xenon x5650
46 GB DDR 3 1600mhz memory
4 nvidia evga Titans
Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Pro

Each processor is 6 physical cores with 12 thread HT.

like i said before i know some people have had issues with low frame rates... Lucky i haven't had that issue to the extent they have had... I have had the client randomly drop to 1 fps then just windows error out... (seems theres a memory leak in the game client.) Only happens really after hours and hours of gameplay... Other then the ocasional that happening its just been 1017 server errors we had in the beginning other then that i been able to really play the game at whatever resolution i want with the settings i want with no real actual issue.

Never said i just use it for gameing lol.. At least now u know why i can run the game at really high resolutions while still maxing out the game with high frame rates.. As the system is just overkill for it.

It's quite possible you simply over power it with brute force. That doesn't give any indication or insight as to why users with perfectly capable systems, suffer intermittent performance loss. I've yet to find what your point is.

[C-croft]

And a quick FYI, the problem I have is panning the camera forces the FPS to nose dive from 90+ to 25+ which IS their issue.

While I don't agree with Rhalix 100%, I do not have issues with panning as bad as you do. But this makes me guess that drivers and optimization from Nvidia will help. Further optimization of the game may help as well. Considering the memory usage is fairly low compared to other games I play(BF3), I am sure there will be some optimization to be had at some point.

On that note, to say this game is broken is ridiculous. While dropping from 60+ to 45 isn't the best, it's hardly broken, or unplayable. We will have to see what AMD/Nvidia cook up first.

Edit: There is something to say regarding the aetherytes though. It is one of the bigger hits in the benchmark for me.

[animapain]

While I don't agree with Rhalix 100%, I do not have issues with panning as bad as you do. But this makes me guess that drivers and optimization from Nvidia will help. Further optimization of the game may help as well. Considering the memory usage is fairly low compared to other games I play(BF3), I am sure there will be some optimization to be had at some point.

On that note, to say this game is broken is ridiculous. While dropping from 60+ to 45 isn't the best, it's hardly broken, or unplayable. We will have to see what AMD/Nvidia cook up first.

True I over exaggerated a little, but the stuttering is driving me crazy lmao damn near makes me dizzy xD I've just done another fresh install of windows, just installing FF and using nvidia drivers a few steps down from what I was using ( as they were beta drivers after all ) So I'll post back if I see any change.

Quick heads up, I've just noticed when logging back in after fresh install that this site has no HTTPS, on my google chrome is had a nice red X through it. Perhaps that has something to do with security issues currently being faced? or my chrome is throwing a fit lmao

[SolanQ]

I'm not experiencing any of these nasty FPS drops when panning the camera that some of you are describing. Performance has generally been pretty good in the game outside of really busy FATEs and in the city trade districts. I don't know if this is because of my drivers, my graphics settings or because I'm running in Borderless Windowed mode (I have dual monitors, so I don't run anything Fullscreen if I can avoid it), but I'll list my specs and settings below in case it may help someone with similar hardware:

My system specs (stock speeds on everything):

i5 2500k
8gb DDR3
GTX 680 2gb
Windows 7 64-bit

Graphics drivers I've tried:

*WHQL 314.07 -> worked great for all other games, but FF14 caused display driver crashes every 30-50 mins, followed by god awful performance
*BETA 326.80 -> game works great since installing these, not a single crash and performance is good in most places and just about acceptable in cities (~30fps is usually where I draw the line and that's about the lowest I get)

My ingame graphics settings:

- Borderless Windowed mode @ 1680x1050 native res

[animapain]

I'm not experiencing any of these nasty FPS drops when panning the camera that some of you are describing. Performance has generally been pretty good in the game outside of really busy FATEs and in the city trade districts. I don't know if this is because of my drivers, my graphics settings or because I'm running in Borderless Windowed mode (I have dual monitors, so I don't run anything Fullscreen if I can avoid it), but I'll list my specs and settings below in case it may help someone with similar hardware:

My system specs (stock speeds on everything):

i5 2500k
8gb DDR3
GTX 680
Windows 7 64-bit

Graphics drivers I've tried:

*WHQL 314.07 -> worked great for all other games, but FF14 caused display driver crashes every 30-50 mins, followed by god awful performance
*BETA 326.80 -> game works great since installing these, not a single crash and performance is good in most places and just about acceptable in cities (~30fps is usually where I draw the line and that's about the lowest I get)

My ingame graphics settings:

- Borderless Windowed mode @ 1680x1050 native res

You don't think it odd that you're running custom settings to improve performance even though that card is easily able run it maxed out? perhaps CPU bottleneck though?

[C-croft]

You don't think it odd that you're running custom settings to improve performance even though that card is easily able run it maxed out? perhaps CPU bottleneck though?

Not if s/he is running dual monitors on a single 680 2gb in borderless windows even with native 1680x1050.

I do know about the crashes prior to the latest beta drivers, but I still have an annoying drop to windows as though I hit the windows key.

[SolanQ]

You don't think it odd that you're running custom settings to improve performance even though that card is easily able run it maxed out? perhaps CPU bottleneck though?

The reason I'm running custom settings is because there are some settings I just don't like visually, such as the Limb Darkening and Radial Blur. In addition to that I disabled Shadows on Other NPC's, because they're powered (at least partially) by the CPU, which means in areas where you have a CPU bottleneck they decrease performance regardless of GPU power (I save about 5-8 fps by turning them off).

As for Anisotropic Filtering, that was supposed to be on 16x. It looks like I forgot to change that back after some testing I did. Even so AF is a pretty low impact and entirely GPU-based setting, so turning it up doesn't affect my lower end performance in any way, since that is, as you rightly guessed, 100% limited by my CPU.

[Dakre]

Just to try when I get home, is there a difference for anyone if they use the left mouse button, arrows on keyboard, or the right mouse button? I mainly use the right mouse button with no problems, but I want to test this out after I get home from work. Usually a case like this I would think the settings or software is causing it, but the rendering portion may be affecting it.