Quote Originally Posted by Einmimiria View Post
Good afternoon and thank you for posting on the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

To get a better understanding of the issue, I'd like to ask a few questions:

1) What Graphics Card are you using?
2) What is the resolution, graphical setting, and frame rate you are getting (both pre and post patch)?
3) Some of you have reported major dips in frame rate, does your GPU utilization reach 100% at this time?
4) Does this happen constantly or is it restricted to only a few areas?
5) Is this accompanied by any graphical glitches?
6) Please list everything you have tried to alleviate the issue

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1) GTX1080
2) 2560x1440, Custom settings, mostly everything max with Occlusion Culling enabled, FPS i don't know but feels like it's a big difference.
3) Yes, it goes all the way up to max usage.
4) I need more testing as i haven't been playing the game i logged in for patch but is mostly to keep my House, however i remember very well it was never this bad, i can't even stream at all because the performance gets another hit from streaming which is barely noticeable in any other games i play and also on this game, i've tried other games just in case and they perform fine, games that are also more demanding.
5) No graphical glitches that i've noticed.
6) Install an older driver after cleaning with DDU, change Power Plan to max, i play with FPS lock of 60 as always did since my Monitor is 60Hz only anyway, i've tried removing the FPS limiter and the FPS is worse than it used to be. I also Disabled FullScreen Optimizations in compatibility options for the executable, disabled GameDVR.

PS: I'm on Windows 10 version 1803 and this is a fresh install not an update through Windows update.

Here's a few screenshots as example:

It goes up to 30% usage just on main menu: https://i.imgur.com/RoBlXdq.jpg

Limsa 60FPS with lots of people 75% Usage: https://i.imgur.com/qkMuNUZ.jpg

Lavender Beds no one around 75% usage: https://i.imgur.com/zvPYE96.jpg