Quote Originally Posted by Kirika- View Post
Couple of things:
  1. SOUI_DUMMY_WND
  2. Rainmeter

The first is a sign of a Chinese adware/spyware program running, using system resources. It could be something that was installed along with some freeware program or such, or something picked up in a trojan. You have 13 instances of it running at once in your System Report.
Run MalwareBytes to clean your computer - https://www.malwarebytes.com/

The second program, while not malicious, does tend to interfere with other programs running in DirectX, of which FF14 does. DirectX runs the game and Rainmeter's display. Most video cards sometimes have a hard time dealing with more than one version of DirectX running the display at the same time, which can cause display issues (FPS drops/stuttering/crashes/etc..) in some cases. Disable Rainmeter completely when running FF14, or uninstall it completely.
rainmeter is def not the problem, this is simply used to display my system readouts (cpu/ram/gpu), i dont use it to display any fancy desktop themes. It has never been an issue before. If i was using a really old gpu that may be the case, but it's def not the case with the 3080.

Regarding soui dummy: only had the pc for just over a month and haven't DLd anything "sketchy" I already have malwarebytes on my pc and scan once a week, and it hasn't caught anything. I'll try running it again and report back if it finds anything.