Foliage/Grass/Shadow issue. flickering/shimmering

[shuno]

Hi.

The problem: When the camera moves, everything starts to shimmer/flicker - above all the foliage- and grass-textures. It's really annoying. At first in Ul'dah it wasn't that bad, but after leaving the city into the - more or less - open areas, it started to feel very distracting.

Trees and grass in the distance are just a bunch of flickering and moving pixels. The closer I get, there more it turns into a constant texture shimmering. I tried to find a solution but there were several unresolved topics over the web with the same problem.

Some people even said it is kind of an engine thing and everyone is experiencing it. I can't believe that.

Another problem is that it only occurs when the camera is moving, so I can't take a screenshot.

The whole last night I reinstalled drivers, reset settings, let GeForce Experience optimize the game, tried the options in the control panel... everything. But nothing helps. I can't enjoy the game with this problem.

I'm using a GeForce GTX 670, everything maxed ingame @1080p Fullscreen (also tried lower settings).

Anyone knows what to do to get rid of this issue?

Thank you!

[MiniTofu]

It's normal for every games, unless you use SMAA/ TXAA.

FXAA is still okay for Antialiasing. It has been like this for 20 years.

[Raist]

yeah... I generally turn things like grass detail down as a default thing anymore because of it. Often one of the first settings I'll look for to toggle off. It gets really bad in some games with the trees--especially when the sun shines through them, or during the transitions between day and night. If you can cope with the pop-ins, sometimes you can negate a good bit of the shimmer/flicker if you ramp up the mip-mapping (low details on distant objects)...but you may just be trading one annoyance for another, so your mileage may vary.

[shuno]

Hmmm. Never experienced it this bad since there are 3D graphics. So it can't be nowhere near 'normal'. It's really annoying. My friends eyes hurts after a short session for example. FXAA is a really bad solution by iteself and it doesn't change anything here, on or off.

[Culfinrandir]

It's normal for FFXIV ARR, it's not normal for the industry. Unfortunately, a lot of implementations of things in FFXIV seem rushed but there's a chance things will improve with the new DX11 client that we will hopefully get a release date for today via PAX East.

[Judge_Xero]

Is it possible the Ram on your GPU is running hot/unstable overclocked?