Help! The FPS is broken on FFXIV.

[crc0427]

Let me know if you want me to try to get you a copy of the working driver from last March. I’m curious if it solves your problems too.

[Ultra-Zed]

Let me know if you want me to try to get you a copy of the working driver from last March. I’m curious if it solves your problems too.

The plan now (I think) is to ask my local PC shop what make the motherboard is on the second PC, because maybe FFXIV might not like ASRock or something?

Then again it does bring me to the problem how FFXIV stops working properly after a certain Nvidia patch, which means 2 things.

It’s on Square Enix’s end

Since you’re having somewhat if the same problems as mine (and I’ve also tried FFXIV on another PC), I am guessing it’s on SE end. Proof of that might lie in this Forum Post about “GPU Utilization Issues” since patch 4.3 or it might be in between 28 March 2018 till it’s release in May 2018 when the problem was more common.

Nvidia is being Nvidia

Now I have heard the word on how Nvidia can be somewhat of a dodgy company (I’ve seen the memes about it lol). The later releases of their drivers will slow down the GPU, until we buy a nice and shiny RTX 2080.

But in the end, comparing your specs to mine, I assume that this is more of a problem on Square Enix’s side, if other games seem to run okay without needing a third party piece of software to keep the game running smoothly.

(I’m Also looking at Neir Automata also, needing Borderless Gaming to play it in Borderless Windowed mode because Full Screen on some PC’s for that game is messed up and it’s also a SE title from Japan lol)

[Ultra-Zed]

I’m also still waiting for a GM response, since I’ve got updates on my conundrum.

Topic: In-game FPS limiter not working properly.

Example: My monitor is at 144hz (I normally play FFXIV like this), I want to play it at 72fps but when setting the cap, it will not stabilise at 72fps and instead goes down to 48 or lower, at any Graphical setting.

I’m gonna put a quick list of what I did

What did not work

*Swapping GPU ports.
*Flashing the BIOS to the very latest version
*Uninstalling the GPU using DDU, then using Ccleaner
*re-Installing GPU driver (391.35) again.
*Having less RAM
*Having 1 stick of different RAM
*Trying FFXIV in another computer (and it still having the same problem)
*Useing a HDMI 2.0 cable and running FFXIV at (144hz)

What did seem to work

*Using a HDMI cable with Hrz running at 60, instead of a Display Port cable
-The game’s FPS cap worked properly as FPS was stabilised at 60fps.

*Using HDMI cable on different monitors.
-same, FPS was stabilised at 60fps

Then again, I still want to use my display port cables to have other things higher than 60fps lol

[Einmimiria]

Thank you for the update Ultra-Zed.

It seems you were able to get a consistently higher frame rate by using the HDMI cable, correct? I'm assuming this was locked at 60 FPS? If you were to remove any frame limits and v-sync, does the fps increase like it should? Or does it exhibit the same issues as the display port cable? Was this the same display port cable that you used for every scenario?

We hope we can be of assistance in helping you enjoy the exciting world of Final Fantasy XIV!

[Ultra-Zed]

Thank you for the update Ultra-Zed.

It seems you were able to get a consistently higher frame rate by using the HDMI cable, correct? I'm assuming this was locked at 60 FPS? If you were to remove any frame limits and v-sync, does the fps increase like it should? Or does it exhibit the same issues as the display port cable? Was this the same display port cable that you used for every scenario?

We hope we can be of assistance in helping you enjoy the exciting world of Final Fantasy XIV!

"It seems you were able to get a consistently higher frame rate by using the HDMI cable, correct? I'm assuming this was locked at 60 FPS?"
Yes I was able to get a consistently high 60FPS when on a normal HDMI cable (Limit 60hz) and yes this was locked at 60FPS also.

"If you were to remove any frame limits and v-sync, does the fps increase like it should? Or does it exhibit the same issues as the display port cable?"
The FPS was completely fine with no problems (except for normal screen tearing after taking the limit off), on the normal HDMI cable it displayed no issues.

"Was this the same display port cable that you used for every scenario?"
on HDMI 2.0 (where I can push the Hrtz to 144hrz so I can get the very smooth 72fps) the problems were still there the same as the Display Cable.

What I do not understand is that FFXIV used to work completely fine at 144hz and now on my PC, even the other PC that I installed FFXIV to. They both act the same. with HDMI 2.0 and Display Cable.
So it seems that FFXIV might not like higher Hz rates now?

I don't want to go back to having my display at 60fps, because I like being at 72fps since it is smooth.

Furthermore, this isn't just me having this problem where FFXIV FPS limiter fails to do it's job properly.