Framerate Issues Since Dawntrail Launch

[Hime_1303]

Ikr! my sister's all play in the same house and im the only one who been experiencing it the whole time, it's not a net problem but idk what exactly,
it started happening after the Emergency Maintenance before it everything was smooth T^T
if anyone finds a solution please tell me, for now i'm just hoping that it will fix after the maintenance this Tuesday

[smallpotato]

Hunt trains with 100+ players are having insanely bad frametimes even with player culling turned up. Normally the game has a frametime of 12-17ms, on hunt trains it goes up to 50ms between frames! The game never got this bad this prior to Dawntrail with large trains. Im assuming it has something to do with the new shaders on armor to be honest.

Ryzen 7 7600
RX 6700XT
32gb 5600mhz DDR5 ram
SSD
1080p

Turning off the new ambient occlusion and forcing fsr dynamic resolution at 30fps doesnt seem to do anything.
I have amd driver settings Radeon Chill and Radeon Enhanced Sync on.

[Frozthax]

Begin was smooth, now stutters and -10/20 FPS every now and then.
During the new EX trial, it always dips and makes it hard for tankbusters.

[hikariinu124]

Just chiming in to say that I am experiencing this issue, game runs smooth locked at 118. But there is definitely stuttering at completely random moments, what's funny is the ingame fps shows it going to 116-117 only but it definitely feels like it's worse than that.

[pvvee]

I am having that same issue, it is not consistent or anything but at any random time, maybe once every hour or so my frames freeze for just a second.
It's not too bad but it gets annoying. especially since i have spent so much money for an mmo expansion.

[NightHour]

I've been having problems with frames micro-stuttering but staying at 59-60 FPS average. Playing on recommended settings and FFXIV will hover at 60-70% GPU usage then drop to 40% on a micro-stutter and go back to 60-70%. The hottest my GPU gets is 81°C so it isn't throttling.

This has been happening sporadically since 6.3 but became noticeably worse since Dawntrail, incredibly worse since the July 6th update, and it's only been deteriorating since then. I tried to play today and it's really bad. I had a 450ms frame lockup that happened during a ground AOE which made it hard to avoid. I've tried everything to fix it but the only intervention that alleviates it at all is playing in fullscreen instead of borderless and that only lessens it slightly.

Intel i7-10700k
RTX 3080 Ti
20GB Ram
Intel 1TB SSD

81c is close to throttling for an RTX 3000 Series GPU.

TJ max of Ampere is like 83-85c.

[Cat_Girl]

I found using Borderless Windowed mode set to 60Hz with the in-game frame rate setting set to 60 fixed my GPU usage issue and random stutters, I have a 144Hz monitor and also had to set it to 60Hz mode too, as for some reason, in the update they removed the 1/2 refresh rate option, so there isn't a way to select say 144Hz display mode, with 72 FPS, it has to be now, either 30, 60, Main display refresh rate (120/144/240) or None for unlocked.

If I use Full Screen mode, I noticed no matter what refresh rate I selected, the game is trying to force the refresh rate at 1 to 2 Hz lower than whatever I select.
For example, I set 144Hz, then open the System Configuration menu, it shows the FPS at 142-143, it won't stay on 144 for long, even not doing anything, or moving in a city, its 142-143 then 144.
This happens with it set to 60Hz, I get 57-58 then it jumps to 59 and 60.

This is the stutter issue I had, it didn't matter on low or max settings, in Inn room or city, something is broken with it.

Obviously, I would rather have my monitor set to 144Hz, use Borderless Windowed mode and lock the in-game FPS to 1/2 (72 FPS), but even using Nvidia CP locking the Max frame limit to 72, this game shows in the menu its running at 70-71 then jumps to 72 non-stop, creating stutters.

Something isn't working right.

[Hime_1303]

i just lag the whole time, and now today it can't even log in the game..
and hunt trains are impossible for me cuz of this lag just before the emergency maintenance everything was smooth
i did hunts dungeons EX and everything now i can't even craft peacefully or even log in T_T and the load screen takes sooo long
my siblings are in the same house even sitting on a PC beside me and the game is so normal with them :s

[SaranKahkol]

I really hope the update ends up fixing some of the issues at least. The game is getting unplayable for me at this point. At first the lag was minor, not even a second. Now it has gotten to the point where it is getting to the point that it is nearing 5 second freezes. I've tried all I can at this point, now I just have to wait.

[gilmorej]

Just adding a confirmation with my info to the pile...

I'm getting random frame-pacing issues with an AMD Ryzen 5 5600x and AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT. The game and windows are both installed on SSD. The micro stutters can happen anywhere but happen worse when there's more people in an area (like Tuliyollal). I had no frame-pacing issues at all prior to patch 7.0.

I wanted to circle back around to this and add that I'm getting frame pacing issues even in cutscenes where there are no characters visible and the screen is just panning across empty landscape. So, it doesn't even have to be a populated area. It's just constantly happening now and then.