Have followed a lot of the advice given here, to some good results - thanks all who helped! I have turned down the settings and I'm now playing the game in DirectX 11, but even in open-world and dungeons I can't crack 60.

Is this just a GPU bottleneck, or is there some super secret-tech that I am not privy to that might help me out?

My system specs are :

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.6GHz Memory: 8192MB RAM Available OS Memory: 8106MB RAM

running Windows 10. Geforce 960M. FF14 on an SSD.