Stutters only in FF14, sometimes hours between stutters

[aqualenne]

We did! Hello! There has been a small suspicion on my end that this may be an AMD issue as well, as a good amount of people I've seen having issues most similar to mine are using X3D chips. However, I also have a friend that's running a 7800X3D who has been helping me troubleshoot this who has had no issues. Have you looked in Event Viewer to see if there are any errors that happen at the time of the stutters? My findings have been inconsistent, but there are sometimes a large amount (10+) of Event ID 131 metadata staging errors that occur at the time of the stutters. Sometimes there is no clear event or error, though.

It's relieving to know that you've tried multiple different kinds of hardware and the issue persists; hopefully that means it's not an issue with my hardware lol!

I'm glad you're able to post on the JP forums as well. This is obviously a pretty minor issue, at least for me, since I can go 7+ hours without any issues or hiccups at all, but it's still disappointing that people like you and I are not having a flawless experience on higher end rigs. I'm very interested to know anything new you find!

EDIT: I've found that those Event ID 131 errors happen any time I plug in any usb connection. Unplugging/plugging in usb devices doesn't cause any frame drops in other games, but always cause my fps AND gpu usage to dip in 14. Disabling automatic driver downloading in windows makes the errors stop happening, but unplugging/plugging in usb devices still causes 14 to stutter. My current theory is that something changed with 14 with the DT update that makes 14 have to wait and think while windows is processing usb-related changes in the background. It would make sense, since the GPU usage also dips, so it would check out if it was waiting for the cpu to stop processing the usb-related background processes before it can continue to render frames. This may all be coincidence and have absolutely nothing to do with it, but I figured I'd just add this in for the sake of thoroughness.

That's interesting! I don't have even a single 131 error in my event viewer Windows system logs, alas. I do see the same thing you do with plugging devices and it stuttering. Did disabling the driver downloading also stop the random stutter for you? And which method did you use to do it?

[Beavertales]

That's interesting! I don't have even a single 131 error in my event viewer Windows system logs, alas. I do see the same thing you do with plugging devices and it stuttering. Did disabling the driver downloading also stop the random stutter for you? And which method did you use to do it?

The errors don't show up in my System logs, I have to look under Custom Views -> Administrative Events. I only turned off the automatic download to see if there was any relationship between having that setting on/off and the production of the 131 errors/stuttering when plugging/unplugging usb connections, so I'm not sure. It really is a pain that this is an issue that can not appear for and entire play session for me, makes it difficult to continue to troubleshoot.
If you want to try disabling the auto updates, you can type in "Change Device Installation Settings" in windows, and select the "No" option. Microsoft states that this "may leave your device vulnerable," though, so do with that what you will.