Game has massive stuttering in Borderless Windowed

[QueenRoe]

This is a very recent issue for me, but doing research, it appears this issue has long existed since Endwalker and no clear fix has been found.

I recently went from a 2060 to a 7800 XT as of last month. All drivers were removed from the 2060 via DDU and I have installed, uninstalled, and reinstalled the AMD drivers repeatedly. I removed Adrenaline as that also could cause issues. I've messed with setting in my PC as well that could cause stuttering.

I thought I finally had found a fix but last night I noticed massive stuttering in Jueno. I swapped to Full Screen and it was all gone. Windowed also has 0 issues. It is just borderless windowed which I prefer much more over the other options as I am on a dual monitor setup.

As for what I did to do the fix, I set my FPS Limit to None as all other limits cause the stuttering, I set the Resolution to my native refresh of 144hz, and I turned off a few options that would render the game inactive. It began to run as if it did before but I noticed the issues coming up again.

My specs are:
Motherboard: B450M DS3H WIFI
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600X
GPU: AMD 7800 XT
RAM: 32 GB
Monitor 1: 144hz
Monitor 2 (Not used for gaming): 120hz

I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out what I could do to fix this and I'm at my wits end here.

[Honisixacodow]

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[DarkArvan]

Hello,

please check if "Don't use optimizations for windows games" is deativated. It should be turned off. Win11 just checked this point for me for FFXIV and it begun to stuttering / no VRR in borderless windows mode.
Please also turn off "Game mode" in Win11. Turn off all options in FFXIV Display Settings below Refresh Rate - select No Limit.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...e-f9389e535952