Borderless Windowed poor performance (stuttering/seemingly low fps)

[Geirr]

Hello!
I've been racking my head around this issue for a long time now. I play in fullscreen mode but for ease of use (and possibly fixing my directx woes) I want to play in borderless windowed. However, when I use borderless windowed I get really stuttery performance.

What I mean by that is my fps reading says the game is running at 82 fps (my cap) but looking at it, it's clearly not. If I switch to fullscreen, buttery smooth, clearly running at 82fps.

I run two monitors. Main one is 1440p 165Hz with Gsync. The other 1080p 60hz no gsync. I've tried a lot of possible fixes but nothing has worked.
Can anyone help me?

I encountered this issue last night, I'll make a proper bug report topic on it shortly. In the meantime, if you were to check your GPU frequency I would bet it is half of what it should be while playing FinFan. Right?

There are two things that have to be enabled for this bug to exist.

1.) "Reduce frame rates while minimized" or whatever it is.
2.) Some kind of frame cap. Be it vsync. Fast vsync. Gsync.

What is occurring: For whatever reason, the driver or the game thinks that the game isn't in focus. The clock rate (speed, power) of the graphics card drops to next to nothing. What should be a smooth 144 or 120 fps experience on a 3080, 3090, becomes a 12-20 fps experience.

How to fix: Turn off the reduced framerate when minimized. Set the frame cap to off, or set it to the full refresh rate of your monitor. Even going down to 120hz from my own 144hz native rate will trigger this bug unless I set the refresh rate of my monitor to 120hz first in the driver suite, and then run "Full" refresh rate in final fantasy.

Let me know if this fixes it for you.

[M0narch]

I encountered this issue last night, I'll make a proper bug report topic on it shortly. In the meantime, if you were to check your GPU frequency I would bet it is half of what it should be while playing FinFan. Right?

There are two things that have to be enabled for this bug to exist.

1.) "Reduce frame rates while minimized" or whatever it is.
2.) Some kind of frame cap. Be it vsync. Fast vsync. Gsync.

What is occurring: For whatever reason, the driver or the game thinks that the game isn't in focus. The clock rate (speed, power) of the graphics card drops to next to nothing. What should be a smooth 144 or 120 fps experience on a 3080, 3090, becomes a 12-20 fps experience.

How to fix: Turn off the reduced framerate when minimized. Set the frame cap to off, or set it to the full refresh rate of your monitor. Even going down to 120hz from my own 144hz native rate will trigger this bug unless I set the refresh rate of my monitor to 120hz first in the driver suite, and then run "Full" refresh rate in final fantasy.

Let me know if this fixes it for you.

I have a 3060 with a 144hz monitor and before today's maintenance I had the fps locked at 72 and it worked, after I encountered an issue with the fps lock(for 144 i had like 90, for 72 i had around 49), but now even with no limit cap it is locked at 41-45