So I came across a problem I've only managed to partially solve. Ever since updating to the newest drivers for my Nvidia GTX 680, FF14 has had horrible performance across the board. Framerate dropped overall, and on top of that many instances such as Wanderer's Palace cause further drops in framerate that are best described as stutters. Everything will stop, then skip frames. The result being severe problems with input response and a visual mess due to the game constantly stopping and going.

I originally was going to just do a reinstall of the 353.30 drivers, but then after uninstalling them my old drivers (347.25) reinstalled due to still being somewhere in my system.

The funny thing, 347.25 drivers make the game run flawlessly.

So yeah. There's something up with that driver set...Seen a few other people on Reddit complaining about crashes and the like with 353.30.