Thanks for the reply, I thought that might have been the issue but when looking at the process in task manager and selecting cpu affinity "use all processors" is checked. I even tried putting the process on a specific core to see if that might have any improvment, but when I put focus back onto ffxiv I can see the core I put it on drop to almost 0% used and core 0 spike up to 100%. It's very strange and I have no clue how to fix it. It had done something like this a few months ago that made the game unplayable on stream so I just didn't stream it, then a few months later when I got my new CPU I tested it out and it was working again. At the time I assumed it was just my old CPU and GPU couldn't handle the game, but I'm running on a pretty beefy system now and even putting the game on it's lowest supported resolution and settings and it still happens. I knoiw there are some programs that can interfere with system performance like Windows 10 Creator Update or Nvidia Experience/Raptr but I don't have any of those programs installed on my computer.