Up until a couple patches ago I don't think I'd experienced anything like this, but recently I've had some weird stuttering going on during instanced areas, normal gameplay runs smoothly for the most part. No factual frame drops or anything of the sort.

I'm currently playing at 1080p on a 144hz monitor with G-Sync and NVIDIA Vsync enabled, exclusive fullscreen, framerate limited to 120 FPS.

I have tried enabling and disabling Fullscreen Optimizations, turning Windows Game Mode on and off and have disabled Windows Update.

Moreover, when I limit my framerate to 60 fps the whole game stutters terribly. Plus, when I tab out everything else running gets a little laggy/stuttery (Browser, File Explorer, etc). It's only with FFXIV that this ever happens. It's really weird.

Again, up until some patches ago I don't recall the game ever acting like this.

I'd appreciate any help. Many thanks in advance.