Framerate Issues Since Dawntrail Launch

[SaranKahkol]

I've tried every hot fix I could find and none of them have worked sadly. I really hope that they do know about the PC issues and we aren't just left hanging for the next who knows how long...

[Fraz_66]

I thought I'd chime in too to say I've got a similar issue with FPS. In Tuliyollal I'm getting 48FPS at certain locations (like at the Bayside Bevy Marketplace Aether looking north east, but many others exist). My CPU is capping around 70% and GPU is at 45%. Definitely not a hardware issue.

Specs:

intel i7 9700k @ ~4.6GHz
Asus Strix RTX 4090 OC
M.2 SSD
32GB DDR4 RAM (1200 MHz)

It's mostly fine and I'm getting around 165 FPS but in specific areas the FPS just TANKS and hardware monitors report no bottleneck.

SE plz fix

[keichirou]

after the most recent patch (07/06 Emergency-Maint) my game is getting HUGE graphical spikes , stutters for 2 seconds drops from 60FPS to 30FPS and NO SQUARE is NOT OUR HARDWARE , i can run BDO on ultra settings for crying out loud with nooooo problem but i have issues with this game?


so the question is , WTH did you guys do to this game?

[Larirawiel]

If the game drops from 60 to 30 fps then VSync is a very likely reason for it.




Cheers

[gold13821]

I thought I'd chime in too to say I've got a similar issue with FPS. In Tuliyollal I'm getting 48FPS at certain locations (like at the Bayside Bevy Marketplace Aether looking north east, but many others exist). My CPU is capping around 70% and GPU is at 45%. Definitely not a hardware issue.

Specs:

intel i7 9700k @ ~4.6GHz
Asus Strix RTX 4090 OC
M.2 SSD
32GB DDR4 RAM (1200 MHz)

It's mostly fine and I'm getting around 165 FPS but in specific areas the FPS just TANKS and hardware monitors report no bottleneck.

SE plz fix

I'm no IT expert and I might be talking nonsense, but I'd say your CPU with just 12MB of cache is a pretty big bottleneck for a MMORPG. Not to mention your RAM running at, I believe, the lowest DDR4 speeds. That's two bottlenecks right there.

[Larirawiel]

I'm no IT expert and I might be talking nonsense, but I'd say your CPU with just 12MB of cache is a pretty big bottleneck for a MMORPG. Not to mention your RAM running at, I believe, the lowest DDR4 speeds. That's two bottlenecks right there.

The game is VERY CPU bound because it runs basically only on one core. I have also frame drops to 60 fps in some very crowded areas like night clubs. And i have a Ryzen 7950X3D. And this is the fastest gaming CPU you can have from AMD. So it is normal, that there are bigger frame drops. And yes, it is the engine's fault. It uses still DirectX 11, which has a huge overhead etc.




Cheers

[Araxes]

I'm no IT expert and I might be talking nonsense, but I'd say your CPU with just 12MB of cache is a pretty big bottleneck for a MMORPG. Not to mention your RAM running at, I believe, the lowest DDR4 speeds. That's two bottlenecks right there.

I wondered what a 4090 is doing in such a system tbh.

BTT: After maintenance still the same issues as before. Frames drop to low 50's with CPU and GPU not nearly being capped.

[gold13821]

I wondered what a 4090 is doing in such a system tbh.

BTT: After maintenance still the same issues as before. Frames drop to low 50's with CPU and GPU not nearly being capped.

Just for funsies I would try running the windows repair commands. I think there are 4(?) total. Or even a repair installation. The former has fixed some strange almost rthytmic frame drops I've had some two years ago. Windows has a tendency to want to kill itself even if you do nothing to it yourself.

[snailfever]

Just chiming in to say I am also having issues. I ran the game in max graphics before the update with no issues, and scored high on the benchmark in max graphics as well (over 10k score), but now I am experiencing framerate issues and stuttering no matter what settings I change. It also doesn't seem to be a hardware issue, as my CPU usage is not even half capped and my laptop stays as cool as a cucumber.

Specs:
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
16GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

Not the most impressive specs, so I don't expect to run flawlessly in max graphics or anything, but this is way worse than I expected and way worse than the benchmark led me to believe it would be. I'm getting spikes of ~30fps every minute or so, even with graphics turned all the way down, including 3D resolution scaling at 50. It looks like I'm playing on a PS2 and I'm still stuttering constantly, regardless of where I am/how many players are around me, etc. I've tried every fix and recommendation in this thread to no avail.

[NightHour]

I'm having the same issues on my PC.

Specs:

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
32 GB DDR4 3200Mhz CL16 RAM
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
Resolution: 3840 x 2160

I thought I'd chime in too to say I've got a similar issue with FPS. In Tuliyollal I'm getting 48FPS at certain locations (like at the Bayside Bevy Marketplace Aether looking north east, but many others exist). My CPU is capping around 70% and GPU is at 45%. Definitely not a hardware issue.

Specs:

intel i7 9700k @ ~4.6GHz
Asus Strix RTX 4090 OC
M.2 SSD
32GB DDR4 RAM (1200 MHz)

It's mostly fine and I'm getting around 165 FPS but in specific areas the FPS just TANKS and hardware monitors report no bottleneck.

SE plz fix

"My CPU is capping around 70% and GPU is at 45%. Definitely not a hardware issue."

$2,000+ GPU with a 5 year old ~ $300 mid range CPU.


You're bottlenecking that 4090 big time. FFXIV uses both the CPU and GPU... Your GPU is basically a Ferrari with a Fiat Punto engine because of how weak the CPU is.



I bet if you had a CPU that could actually keep up with a 4090 (14700K, 14900K, 13900K, Ryzen 7800X3D/7900X3D/7950X3D) and faster RAM (DDR 4 3200+ or DDR5 6000) most of your performance issues would disappear.