Quote Originally Posted by Sacred-Oblivion View Post
The claim being made in this thread is that the ps4 version of FFXIV running on ps5 performs better than the native ps5 version running on ps5. With the PS5 you have the choice of playing the PS4 version of FFXIV (via backwards compatibility) or the native PS5 version of FFXIV. According to this rando youtube comment, here is why the PS5 version of FFXIV performs not as well as the PS4 version:



Makes sense if true. The PS5 app trades some frame rates for enhanced visuals over the PS4 app.
I think we likely found the problem here.

Quote Originally Posted by CosmicCoqui View Post
Well it was tested before and 4k mode is around 40fps average with dips going lower, 1440p mode is 60 but can dip around 55. Honestly nothing changed from the beta to the official release and wonder if SE will ever address this. Cause 4k mode is really sluggish given the dips that it makes it pointless to even use over 1440p. Really don't know why SE did not bother to optimize it better because Ps5 has the hardware to do better and yet seems they didn't really bother to make it work well.
I think once we lose PS4 support and only PS5/PC they will have no choice but to fix/optimize it. Maybe with the upcoming graphics update they will, again, have no choice but to fix it.