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

[Teizque]

I haven't read through this entire string, but I've posted separately about low FPS or FPS drops. In my situation, I suspect it was due to an overheated machine. I have two machines which are identical, one had the poor performance the other hadn't. The machine with the poor performance I turned off for ~12 hours and when we came back to the game all was well. In short, I would say that it could be a variety of factors causing it, and this game seems more sensitive to outside variables than most other MMOs

[Muttles]

Same issue with me, might be an issue with the 660 TI itself.

I go down to 25 FPS at times in towns with no character models in view.

System:
Intel 2600k OC'ed at 4.6
SLI x2 660 TI OC
120 Gig SSD
8 gigs DDR 3

Instances and some zones I average 140 FPS, Towns 27 FPS. This is the same FPS drop with 1 card enabled or 2. There is definitally an issue but it might be with the 660 TI and this game...

[Blackmogg]

Had the same issue and well I still have it if I just set max setting. On beta it was fine and on benchmark I scored 12k, but anyway if u have a new multicore cpu like an i7 if u unparck the cores u get a solid 13-15 fps increase. For me it keeps a solid min 30fps evrywhere.
It's easy to do and if u don't notice the improve is easy to remove, also 99% of the time is better have the cores unparked.
link to the unpark thing: http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-...arking-Utility

my spec:
i7 3770
8gb ram
ssd
asus 670

no oc, just the gpu it's oced by default

[Aria_Stars]

enable occlusion culling, it makes a huge difference in FPS. there's no reason to have it off since it just stops the game from rendering off-screen stuff. using low-detail models (LOD) can help a little bit too, but it makes the very far background objects a bit less detailed (like trees or buildings in the distance). foreground stuff is still the same and most people can't notice it.

[JamieLee]

I'm running a 2600k OC to 4.43 with SSD, 16 gb of 1866 RAM, with a reference EVGA 680 and I also have hits in towns. Running 30-45 in towns, but once I leave a huge jump. If I were to turn off the V-sync, world fps are 120-140 fps. In town it is around 30-45. Doesn't exactly sound right. Have had V-sync turned on the whole time, but I will have to try turning it off to see what it does.

@Jamielee

What hardware are you running?

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.

Isn't that rig more of a workstation rather than a gaming rig, bit overkill for gaming don't ya think hehe.

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.

Thats the point i don't see why you would take 2 of my quotes then try to become a troll out of it.

[Syx]

Hey everyone, I did some digging around the Nvidia forums and stumbled upon this thread:

https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...37951/#3937951 (read post 14 and 15)

Looks like the reason those of us with monster systems are having issues is because DirectX 9 is a terribly outdated API (it came out in 2005) and is completely unoptimized for our multi-core, multi-thread, and/or multi-gpu systems. Funny how I remember having the same issues with Guild Wars 2 and DirectX 9 last year, despite having hardware that far exceeded the recommendations put forth by ArenaNet. There is nothing you can do at this point other than hold your breath for the DX11 graphical code to be implemented by SE sometime next year. That being said, it's not guaranteed that performance degredation will be alleviated with a switch to the DX11 API unless FFXIV was coded to support multithreaded rendering in the first place.

Here's some more information regarding multithreading in DX9:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.85%29.aspx
http://www.codermind.com/answers/How...Direct3D9.html
http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/que...g-new-textures

[Lexiel]

Same problem here, since P4. Never had such issue during P2~P3 with same rig.

[Aiyza]

Why is ffxiv still using DX9?

[Blazn]

FX8350 CPU
XFX DD 7970 GPU
SABERTOOTH 990FX R2 M/B
16GB RAM
I get no lag stuttering or fps drops, drivers are most likely to blame.

[Syx]

Why is ffxiv still using DX9?

That is not something any user can answer. It could be time contraints, development parallelism with the PS3 team, or compatibility considerations. In any case, the ones who suffer most are PC players, as we are constrained by the DX9 rendering pipeline.

FX8350 CPU
XFX DD 7970 GPU
SABERTOOTH 990FX R2 M/B
16GB RAM
I get no lag stuttering or fps drops, drivers are most likely to blame.

Please read my post above. Drivers are not the issue here. While my FPS never drops below 30, its range does vary wildly; from 30FPS up to 120FPS. I believe it is like that for most PC players and DX9 is to blame, not bad drivers.