Greetings fellow Eorzean!

Based on the information provided, the issue may be stemming from one of the background programs conflicting the game resulting in the stutter or a particular setting. As a clean boot may temporarily disable the program from running the background, this may still cause the issue. Due to this, we would you like to try testing further by uninstalling any potential problematic programs from your machine entirely then test the game after each instance. As this will be a process of elimination, it may take some time to narrow down what the problem is.

Additionally, you may want to try changing various settings in Windows and nVidia Geforce Experience/Control Panel to see if that has any affect pertaining to graphical enhancements and frame rate limiting.

Lastly, go into the nVidia Geforce Experience software, locate Final Fantasy XIV in the list and select "Details". From there, try changing various settings or use the "Optimize" option to see if this has any effect.

We hope this helps in resolving this issue.

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