Poor performance?

[KenaiChoppa]

Hello! Me and my brother play FF XIV in PC with really similar machines, the main difference is that he has an Nvidia card (2060 super) and 32 gb of ram, while I have an AMD (6800XT) but with only 16 gb of ram.

The thing is, he have a really superior performance than me. While on duty there is not too much of problem, but when we go into cities my PC tank hard. On Old Sharlayan my FPS drops to 30-40, while my brother have 50-60 (we where at the same time, so there should be the same amount of players).

It has something to do with AMD and its drivers or are those 16 gb of ram extra making THAT much of a difference?

Thanks,

EDIT:

I will let this here in case anyone somewhere in the future has a similar issue. I try a lot of stuff with my brother, and one of them was to actually swap our rams to see if that was the issue, the performance was the same. NOW, what i did was re-download my AMD drivers and install it and I got really boost on my performance. It not only detects an 1080p border less window, but it also boost my performance in cities to 50-70 fps (in the crowded ofc). According to my AMD app, i was up to date, but that was not case. So always keep an eye on the drivers

[Dzian]

not an expert on the amd side but google suggests the 6800xt is better than a 2060super. both those frame counts look kinda low though getting 60 is doable even on 10 series gpus.

similar pcs is kinda vague though. are they running similar displays at similar resolutions? maybe hes on a 1080 panel while your on 1440? are you playing at similar settings? are you on max while hes only on high for example?

endless variables?

if they are similar builds swap the gpus over for a day or 3 and see what happens?

[KenaiChoppa]

not an expert on the amd side but google suggests the 6800xt is better than a 2060super. both those frame counts look kinda low though getting 60 is doable even on 10 series gpus.

similar pcs is kinda vague though. are they running similar displays at similar resolutions? maybe hes on a 1080 panel while your on 1440? are you playing at similar settings? are you on max while hes only on high for example?

endless variables?

if they are similar builds swap the gpus over for a day or 3 and see what happens?

Yeah, my bad. We have a Ryzen 5 2600X, the same motherboard and we are running the game on an SSD.

My game settings are full screen 1080p (other wise the game doesnt let me go above 720 for some weird reason) and all on maximum. If I lower the setting i can boost the performance to 40fps

FFXIV tends to be more CPU intensive than GPU intensive generally, but the issue is probably a driver as AMD drivers are pretty awful. The difference in memory wouldn't really have that much of an impact.

mmmm yeah, you are probably right. I was about to buy some new ram but it didnt make sense. 16 GB is a lot, but Ram usually doesnt have that much of an impact, and FF XIV is not "High tech" MMO either...

thanks to both!

[Ransu]

FFXIV tends to be more CPU intensive than GPU intensive generally, but the issue is probably a driver as AMD drivers are pretty awful. The difference in memory wouldn't really have that much of an impact.