Game freezes and lags

[DarthDC]

85 for gpu and 87 for CPU when lag occurred. Memory at 58%. Seems to be taxing the CPU and GPU when the spikes hit. CPU got up to 85% under my performance meters on my Dragon Gaming Center during the spikes.

[Arrhin]

85 for gpu and 87 for CPU when lag occurred. Memory at 58%. Seems to be taxing the CPU and GPU when the spikes hit. CPU got up to 85% under my performance meters on my Dragon Gaming Center during the spikes.

Celsius, I assume (proper maths). Anyways CPU temps is getting up there, GPU temps is possibly in the throttling range. Usually that is set by each laptop manufacturer depending on the cooling capacity. You may need to download a GPU monitor such as GPU-Z or anything that'll let you see if, and why it's throttling. Also the 960m isn't super powerful, it should play the game on lower settings just fine though. I would definitely recommend using V-sync and lower settings until you can get a constant framerate matching your default refresh rate. This will lower GPU and CPU utilization, it also looks better and FFXIV isn't a twitch game so you don need high framerates. I'm not saying thermals ARE your issue, but it's best to rule it out as it's easily done over digging through various software settings and driver revisions. Also make sure you're not on battery power, Gaming laptops need to be on mains power for gaming.

[DarthDC]

Correct. Something to note, those are the temps of my CPU and GPU upon start up as well. The gages are also not filling when the temps are at that level (display is a sliding bar with far right being full and far left being empty, which at those temps, the bar is completely empty). My point is, it seems to be by design. The game is at the lowest setting currently. Turned Vsync on, game still lags right on que.