Heavy Stutter after patch

[origamikitsune]

There are a lot of causes for the stuttering. There as many fixes. If you have a "good system" it is usually the hard drive. The type of stuttering that is caused by bottlenecks in the hard drive can sometimes be fixed by nuking the preferences for the game. Easy process.

Create a temp folder on your desktop. Open Documents / My Games / Final Fantasy XIV/ and move the entire contents into the temp folder. Move ONLY your "users" folder back into the Final Fantasy XIV folder. Run the FFXIV config program and set all your settings back to your preferred set up. Do not forget to configure your controller if you have one. The game will take longer than normal to load after selecting your character. Give it a full minute to load even after you see the UI appear. Give the game a whirl.

If you are running the game fine and then suddenly drop to 3fps for an extended period of time, this is most commonly a different issue. It appears to have something to do with Firefox and/or IE. I have found that waiting out the problem can take anywhere from 5-30min to fix itself, however, closing the web browser in question and re-starting always fixes the issue.

FINALLY... Do you play in windowed mode? Because if you do, FFXIV sets the priority of 14's process to "low" while in windowed mode. Setting it normal is helpful. This is dun by running taskmgr.exe, clicking the tab for processes, then right clicking FFXIVgame.exe and selecting the priority there. However, for some reason, it seems to constantly reset itself back to low... let me know if you find a fix for this.

Hope that helps!

EDIT: Enabling UAC Virtualization on the process before setting its priority forces the priority change.