Framerate Issues Since Dawntrail Launch

[gghostingg]

Hard to say for sure, but this sounds like a connection issue. Most likely a packet loss, but could also simply be latency. Sometimes even the servers can be weird and route you through a laggy "gate". Have you tried checking your ping to google and maybe even FFXIV sites?

oddly enough im the only person experiencing this on our connection - three others play ffxiv on our wifi just fine :[ and im only experiencing it in ffxiv

i pinged the aether ip, its 36ms with no packet loss

[Barwara]

I've had the exact same issue since launching DT, despite having a new computer from 2022 and a benchmark score of 'very high'. FPS spiking between 120 and 40 since installing the expansion, regardless if zone is crowded or not.

I've tried all the different hot fixes suggested here and on reddit, even cleaned out my fans cause I figured it could also be an overheating issue.

Only thing that helped so far is capping the FPS to 60.

[Johnny-Canuck]

Any of you noticing a correlation between ethernet throughput spikes and the micro stutters in game? Just wondering if there's some troubleshooting I can do on that end. I never had this issue prior to DT and I'm connected to my internet via a wire directly.

[Xeliot]

I am glad to find out that the problem is widespread. I tried several troubleshooting methods, but nothing worked. Mind you, I have a very good rig.

i9-13900k
RTX 4090
DDR5 32GB

[_muse]

I have the same issue. Before DT I always had 100+ fps with max settings, my fps since the expansion release has been sub 40. Nothing is bottle necked and I have tried so many "fixes". Nothing seems to do anything.

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 eight core processor
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070
32 GB RAM

[Nalfgardia]

Before the maintenance on July 6, everything was fine (no freezes, smooth graphics, constant 120 fps). After the maintenance, it’s been a disaster... even when the fps is stable, I experience micro-freezes and more significant freezes in the dungeons...

I’ve tried everything I could find on various forums to fix the issue, but without success...

What drives me even crazier is that my wife, who plays right next to me, doesn’t have this problem.

I sincerely hope SE will fix this in the maintenance on the 16th...

I9-13900kf
Rtx 4090
32 GB DDR5

[OokieSpookie]

In my case the stupidest thing about it is not only does it happen in big crowds and fights, but it also happens when I am along in my inn room or walking the bell outside of my house with not a soul in sight much less inside my house or even gathering at a node in the middle of nowhere with not a soul around.

[NightHour]

https://imgur.com/a/xTsp5ZX
is it normal i have 0% gpu usage??
but in task manager i have 30% gpu 3d tho???


edit: now it's 97% gpu 3d usage. lol.

I think that's a sensor bug with HWMonitor.

There's no way your GPU is 79c and at 0.6% usage.

[Namkeng]

Was checking out what is using the GPU 3D next to my two ff14 clients, seems like DWM, CSRSS, while gyazo was used for the record capture and the system itself gets on the GPU copy after every fps drop while youtube is running on my mozilla browser which caused my CPU usage to lag aswell since my browser doesn't have the hardware acceleration enabled, none of them were capping my GPU memories but utilzation is either at 70% or 100% then down to like 1 to 10%


https://gyazo.com/8cab9b5950046e0bfe22e4b91bdc3f76

[Belorin]

I've been having problems with frames micro-stuttering but staying at 59-60 FPS average. Playing on recommended settings and FFXIV will hover at 60-70% GPU usage then drop to 40% on a micro-stutter and go back to 60-70%. The hottest my GPU gets is 81°C so it isn't throttling.

This has been happening sporadically since 6.3 but became noticeably worse since Dawntrail, incredibly worse since the July 6th update, and it's only been deteriorating since then. I tried to play today and it's really bad. I had a 450ms frame lockup that happened during a ground AOE which made it hard to avoid. I've tried everything to fix it but the only intervention that alleviates it at all is playing in fullscreen instead of borderless and that only lessens it slightly.

Intel i7-10700k
RTX 3080 Ti
20GB Ram
Intel 1TB SSD