Stutters only in FF14, sometimes hours between stutters

[gilmorej]

I have stuttering issues on my desktop that has a Ryzen 5 5600X, 16 GB of RAM, and Radeon RX 7900 XT. The stuttering did not exist before 7.0 patch. I do not have a gamepad attached to my computer. The game is installed on an SSD. It is not over/under-clocked, just stock settings. This same computer scored ~21,000 "Extremely High" on the benchmark on maximum graphic settings.

However, my much weaker laptop that has a Ryzen 9 4900HS, 16 GB of RAM, and GeForce RTX 2060 does not get any stuttering issues whatsoever.

It's very frustrating because my desktop's specs are so far above the recommended specs... It should have absolutely no issue running the game smoothly at a capped 60 FPS. Since the 7.0 patch this game is the only game that I play which has any issues on my computer, and it totally shouldn't.

[Beavertales]

I have stuttering issues on my desktop that has a Ryzen 5 5600X, 16 GB of RAM, and Radeon RX 7900 XT. The stuttering did not exist before 7.0 patch. I do not have a gamepad attached to my computer. The game is installed on an SSD. It is not over/under-clocked, just stock settings. This same computer scored ~21,000 "Extremely High" on the benchmark on maximum graphic settings.

However, my much weaker laptop that has a Ryzen 9 4900HS, 16 GB of RAM, and GeForce RTX 2060 does not get any stuttering issues whatsoever.

It's very frustrating because my desktop's specs are so far above the recommended specs... It should have absolutely no issue running the game smoothly at a capped 60 FPS. Since the 7.0 patch this game is the only game that I play which has any issues on my computer, and it totally shouldn't.

Are your stuttering issues unpredictable like the rest of us here? It seems like we can go hours without any issues, so it's not a consistent thing.

[gilmorej]

Yes, it happens randomly at any time.
I can go minutes or hours between the appearance of any stuttering.
There can be 100 people around, or zero people, or even a cutscene panning across a scene with no characters visible at all.

It will just randomly stutter like it dropped two or three frames, and then go back to being normal for a random period of time.

[Beavertales]

Yes, it happens randomly at any time.
I can go minutes or hours between the appearance of any stuttering.
There can be 100 people around, or zero people, or even a cutscene panning across a scene with no characters visible at all.

It will just randomly stutter like it dropped two or three frames, and then go back to being normal for a random period of time.

How long are your stutters in terms of time? My game freezes for about half a second or so, but it seems like the length can vary.

[DiasFlacOg]

Yes, it happens randomly at any time.
I can go minutes or hours between the appearance of any stuttering.
There can be 100 people around, or zero people, or even a cutscene panning across a scene with no characters visible at all.

It will just randomly stutter like it dropped two or three frames, and then go back to being normal for a random period of time.

This is exactly what my stuttering looks like. It doesn't matter if it's Limsa at peak times, or just soloing a dungeon, or just being in some randomly lonely place with zero players around. It's frustrating because as far as I can tell these lil stutters come completely randomly.

I tried playing the game on low settings (on a 4080) to see if this would fix the lil micro stutters that randomly pop up and it doesn't. I don't think it's a graphical settings issue.

During my time with EW using the same 4080 and driver version 537.58 (from October 2023) the game ran perfectly smooth with no issues or any micro stutters from 60fps to 58fps randomly. The game just played perfectly. Like I said in my previous post. I even went ahead and tested DT with these old drivers (537.58) and the game runs mostly fine, but now even with that old driver I still get those lil random stutters.

Funnily enough I feel like I get the "random" stutters a bit more with the newest Nvidia driver. However I don't want to keep using such an old driver on a new expansion.

[gilmorej]

Ryzen 5 5600x
16 GB DDR 4 3200
Radeon RX 7900 XT
Corsair Force MP600 PCI-e Gen 4 M.2 NVMe SSD

This computer is leagues above the recommended spec. My benchmark score was over 21,000 and "extremely high"