Since Endwalker release the game is rather unplayable for me(lag, sound stutter)

[Timeouwthy]

Apologies if I missed a specific thread for this.

I am a sprout, been playing for about two months. Before Endwalker I always did have a bit of visual lag in the cutscenes, especially in ARR and the first Patch and by the time I hit HW the issues were gone. Up to the point when Endwalker dropped. Now the lag starts about 15 minutes into the game, earlier if the servers are bursting at the seams. it is not only cutscenes, it is everything. I alternate between 50 fps and 10 fps every other minute and the sound keeps stuttering all the time (even with the light lag in ARR cutscenes I have never had sound issues)

Can You Run It says I can play the game on minimals just fine and I clearly cannot.

What I did:

1) I have lowered my graphics setting to the minimum and switched all special effects off.
2) I have updated my drivers.
3) I have de-installed Gshader
4) I have repaired the game and restored the files.
5) I have ran other MMO (Guild Wars 2 to be precise and tested it on a specific boss battle that I knew used to be laggy for me on the old drivers. it ran like a charm)
6) I used VPN to bypass possible faulty node connection.
7) Battery performance up, GPU performance up, Game mode and Discord hardware acceleration disabled(due to be known to cause issues)

Here are my computer's specs:
-=-=-=-=-=-=- System Information -=-=-=-=-=-=-

SYSTEM_OS Windows 10 Home 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406)
SYSTEM_CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
SYSTEM_CORE_NUM SYSTEM_CORE_LOGIC 8 SYSTEM_CORE_PHYSICS 4
SYSTEM_BIOS GL553VD.307
SYSTEM_LANGUAGE English (Regional Setting: English)
SYSTEM_MEMORY 8076.824MB
SYSTEM_VIRTUAL_MEMORY 134217727.875MB
SYSTEM_PAGE_FILE 11788.824MB
SYSTEM_STORAGE C:\ SYSTEM_HARDDISK_DRIVE SYSTEM_TOTALDISC_SPACE 118.130GB SYSTEM_FREEDISC_SPACE 28.095GB
SYSTEM_STORAGE D:\ SYSTEM_HARDDISK_DRIVE SYSTEM_TOTALDISC_SPACE 931.512GB SYSTEM_FREEDISC_SPACE 715.825GB
SYSTEM_DIRECTX_VERSION DirectX 12
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS Intel(R) HD Graphics 630
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DEVICE \\.\DISPLAY1
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_CHIP Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_MAKER Intel Corporation
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_VRAM 128.000 MB
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_SHARED_VRAM 4038.412 MB
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DAC Internal
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DISPLAY_MODE 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\igdlh64.inf_amd64_ceba516baea4bed9\igdumdim64.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\igdlh64.inf_amd64_ceba516baea4bed9\igd10iumd64.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\igdlh64.inf_amd64_ceba516baea4bed9\igd10iumd64.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\igdlh64.inf_amd64_ceba516baea4bed9\igd12umd64.dll
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_VERSION 26.20.0100.7325
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_DATE 10/7/2019 01:00:00
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_LANGUAGE English
3.0
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SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_VERTEX_TEXTURE SYSTEM_SUPPORT
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SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DEVICE Unknown
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SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_MAKER NVIDIA
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SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_SHARED_VRAM SYSTEM_UNKNOWN
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DAC Integrated RAMDAC
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DISPLAY_MODE Unknown
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SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_VERSION 30.00.0014.9709
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_DATE 11/26/2021 01:00:00
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_LANGUAGE English

SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_PIXEL_SHADER
SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_VERTEX_TEXTURE
SYSTEM_SOUND Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
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SYSTEM_SOUND_DEVICE_NAME RTKVHD64.sys
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SYSTEM_SOUND_DRIVER_LANGUAGE English
SYSTEM_SOUND_DRIVER_DATE 10/30/2018 01:00:00
SYSTEM_SOUND Speakers (Steam Streaming Microphone)
SYSTEM_SOUND_DEVICE_ID {D7CA05F3-37AD-4D1D-9249-62444CF11A2A}
SYSTEM_SOUND_DEVICE_NAME SteamStreamingMicrophone.sys
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SYSTEM_SOUND_DRIVER_LANGUAGE
SYSTEM_SOUND_DRIVER_DATE 7/28/2017 01:00:00
SYSTEM_SOUND Speakers (Steam Streaming Speakers)
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SYSTEM_SOUND_DRIVER_LANGUAGE
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Nothing of what I did worked for me so far, not even a smidge and at this point I am pretty sure the problem is not me or my laptop. It is really annoying and it is ruining my game experience so much

[TeemoTeemosson]

Try uninstalling any mods and uninstalling and then re-installing the game. Steam repair kind of sucks.

[Elliah-Seraheart]

Redirecting you to the audio stutter/popping/static thread. There are SOME remedies in there that may or may not help you. Feel free to chime in and post your specs. Can't hurt.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-popping-issue

[Ryu_Tempest]

Hey there.
On the first day I had the same issue with Direct X 9, because I couldnt start it up with DirectX 11 when Endwalker came out. As soon as I walked into new areas I had you above mentioned issues.
A GPU driver update fixed it for me.
You may have done this already if not I hope I could help. Anyhow hope you find a solution soon.

[Timeouwthy]

thanks for your replies :3 Today before playing I once again re-installed the drivers and this time made sure it was a clean re-install. Turned the GPU performance up and, as last, ran cmd.exe to diagnose and repair corrupted files on computer. Restarded the whole thing. I also put my game in borderless windowed mode and fps limit to 30

And it worked. I only got lag and stutter once, on Ifrith EX. Apart from that my game behaved very smoothly to the point I even got bit bold and upped some of the graphics settings like turn on the grass and smoother shadows and anti-aliasing. I am not sure which one of these things did it but for now it works. i shall see how it goes tomorrow.