Framerate Issues Since Dawntrail Launch

[NightHour]

Looks like they adressed the CPU and GPU utilization for NVIDIA and "fixed" it, have to try it out.

https://i.gyazo.com/ca37b2003b2743e7...b8b9d000a9.png

That's a bug with the Nvidia app.

Nvidia's drivers have more CPU overhead in general than AMD or Intel drivers.

[Ryu_Makkuro]

On my end, the game starts running a lot worse after a period of time, about 10-20FPS less. Before this latest update on August 8th, it would take about an hour before any performance degradation started, now it takes as little as 15 minutes. Entering many instances/areas seems to accelerate the issue, so farming any instanced content is an absolute nightmare. On top of lower FPS, there's a definite "sluggishness" to input and overall game response.
For example, same party composition during M4N, I can drop to 72FPS from a 74FPS lock only during opener and 2 minute burst phase. After I do few of said runs, it drops down to 54FPS during those moments.

Not a GPU issue, as 1080Ti usage only drops during it and due to using FPS cap, it never goes over 80%. RAM and VRAM usage doesn't increase, thus memory leak isn't the case. CPU usage is very hard to identify, as this game is not only extremely single thread dependent, but also bad at utilising CPUs in general, however during said performance degradation, one thread is constantly capped at 100%, which indicates that something is taking extra CPU resources.


People with much better CPUs than mine old trusty i7 3770k probably won't notice an FPS decrease as such, however the microstuttering correlates with the worse game response on my end.
Again, would like to point out, same fight and team comp, works perfectly fine for the first few runs, and then suddenly gets a lot worse. And this problem got worse with the August 8th update.

[IdleBlood]

You should limit to 60 fps. You dont need more.

[AvengerXZ]

I'm not too sure of the cause but also recently has been really bad. My max frames are set to 120, typically ends up dropping to 90 in a split second or so and I would feel lag. Some days are worse than others to the point it can be unplayable as every time fps drops, you just feel like everything stops for a split second.

using 3080ti, ryzen 5800x, latest nvidia drivers already. Play with mouse/keyboard, don't have any controllers plugged in either... really no idea what is causing it.

[AvengerXZ]

just curious for those having these issues.. do you by any chance have origin /epic games launcher installed?

[IdleBlood]

You shouldnt have any issue if you put limit to 60. Stuttering and other issues dissappear. But some people still aiming for play a MMO like they re playing to League of legends with 200 fps. It doesnt matter, put 60 and the drama of the 90% forum is done.

[Thom-Karnel]

You shouldnt have any issue if you put limit to 60. Stuttering and other issues dissappear. But some people still aiming for play a MMO like they re playing to League of legends with 200 fps. It doesnt matter, put 60 and the drama of the 90% forum is done.

The frame limit doesn't matter. The stuttering still happens both when I limit it to 30 fps, and when I ticked the 'Limit frame rate when client is inactive' tickbox, which puts the game at 15fps when you tab out. I tabbed out and ran around and it still happened.

[AvengerXZ]

just curious for those having these issues.. do you by any chance have origin /epic games launcher installed?

If anyone has origin/epicgames installed, try uninstalling it and see if it helps...

[NooberNerd]

After trying several things I found some solution in the meantime before dev try to figure out the issue is, for me at least.

The issue that is from
Screen Mode = Full Screen
with
Framerate = Main Display Refresh Rate

- This setting will cause Frametime stuttering "Spike", hard.

To fix this on my end
Screen Mode = Borderless Windowed
with
Framerate = Main Display Refresh Rate

With this setting, I may not get a smooth Frametime line (if you use MSI Afterburner to check that) like I use Full Screen mode but.....
The Frametime Spike is much less and almost unnoticeable during gameplay and some intense boss fights. and my FPS still reaches the native Monitor Frame Hz (mine is 75hz)

I don't know if my reply may help or not but I'll leave it here.

PS. My PC Spec is (If dev seen my post)
CPU: Intel 14700
RAM: 32Gb (16x2) 6000Mhz
GPU: GTX 1080
Monitor: Dell SE2717H (Native: 1920x1080 75hz)
Storage: SSD 1TB (Where my FF14 is installed)

[crc0427]

That didn't fix it for me or for my friends. Still getting a random stutter where the game seems to pause for a split second and then continue on. SE needs to fix this asap.