Quote Originally Posted by Arrhin View Post
I've noticed no difference on either of my machines. I'm just wondering though, they said they are doing some tweaking with the rendering process (can't remember the exact words they used, I'm no developer either), is it possible there's some issues with some setups and software? Also, which CPU are you running, it's typically more of a limiting factor on XIV in regards to pacing and 1% lows. My desktop is an R5 5600X, RTX3060 on 32 gigs of ram, game is installed on a SATA SSD. I haven't noticed any difference on CPU and GPU utilization, temps, or anything, always hitting 70fps to 180fps in the various areas, 1440p Ultra (HBAO+ Standard, Quality looks worse imo and eats resources) both before and after the patch. My older GTX 1070 laptop sees no difference either, HOWEVER...I did get a CTD this morning on it while on Island Sanctuary, looking at the Event Logger looks like stupid Apple Bonjour service took a dump...but...it was a weird crash. No error code, game locked up with a constant tone from the last sound played, then went to coloured static flickering onscreen (early G-sync does this sometimes when going fullscreen to windowed) that lasted about 30 seconds, then ended up back on the WINDOWS login screen. After a reboot, uninstalling Bonjour, I played for a couple hours without incident. Long story short, check temps and utilization, look for anything weird or changes to the norm if you usually monitor these things.


I have a i7 8700k that's delided and OCed to 5ghz. My temps stay around 60c while playing FF14. No overheating issues here. 32gb of 3200mhz G.Skill Trident Z RAM. GTX 1080ti. Game is installed on a samsung 970 evo plus NVME drive.

I play at 1440p with all max settings and the game has always ran beautifully. Always at a locked 60fps.

However the issues started with this patch. Yesterday the game ran perfectly. Today i'm getting all these stutters. Keep this in mind too. I'm playing on the EU servers and everyone is asleep right now. There's hardly anyone on in the cities. Yet i'm still getting all these stutters.

My guess is that since they are tweaking the engine for 7.0 they screwed something up in the process. The game is not unplayable, but it is annoying for sure.