FFXIV poor performance outlier on new Radeon 9070 XT cards!?

[Remolia]

That's peculiar, I've not had driver issues since I got my 7800XT, I did notice a slight issue in Windows when I ran certain frame rates with OBS running but I think that was due to OBS' being 60hz to FF's 144 causing desyncs on the polling which caused really bad stuttering, it always went away when I closed OBS. That was on 24.X drivers. I had an issue when I moved to Linux but that's because my 7800XT was just released when I got it so Ubuntu based distros didn't have drivers for it in their kernels, a little reading and user intervention fixed that.

23.11 was 1+ year ago.

[Remolia]

The AMD drivers are hot garbage. I have to reinstall the 23.11. driver frequently because the actual drivers are broken for FFXIV on my rig and causing framedrops, stutters and so on. They have to get their s*ht done right.

I had to reinstall windows once, to fix drivers forever.
But I still have stutters when Antilag is enabled, because looks like FFXIV old engine can't work it out.

[Vintersol]

I had to reinstall windows once, to fix drivers forever.
But I still have stutters when Antilag is enabled, because looks like FFXIV old engine can't work it out.

I don't use Antilag or any form of frame generation. The issues had started on Windows 10 from one day to another and i had tried to fix it on multiple ways without success. Even after shifting over to Windows 11, the issue was still present. I don't know what is wrong with the actual drivers. I play the game on 4k with 120+ fps on the older driver. On the current one, it's still 120fps but it feels like 15fps, inconsistent, depending on the area ingame.

[Velcio]

Someone I know made a point that the official AMD showcase video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhQecal2kE8 ) only referred to FFX(VI), not FFX(IV). Thus the "the outlier" with regards to XIV is probably accurate and something to do with the game itself instead of any specific testing setup or the benchmark itself. AMD never claimed any XIV performance from what I can see, both Gamers Nexus and der8auer probably made a mistake with roman numerals. I was also excited about the 9070 XT but my gaming hours being so majorly XIV will probably make me wait for a nvidia refresh instead since I'm not in a hurry to upgrade.

[empyreanfox]

Someone I know made a point that the official AMD showcase video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhQecal2kE8 ) only referred to FFX(VI), not FFX(IV). Thus the "the outlier" with regards to XIV is probably accurate and something to do with the game itself instead of any specific testing setup or the benchmark itself. AMD never claimed any XIV performance from what I can see, both Gamers Nexus and der8auer probably made a mistake with roman numerals. I was also excited about the 9070 XT but my gaming hours being so majorly XIV will probably make me wait for a nvidia refresh instead since I'm not in a hurry to upgrade.

You're right about AMD's showcase featuring FFXVI not FFXIV, however the problem being highlighted here isn't claiming AMD set this expectation in their presentation, but rather, that all the other games tested perform around RTX 5070 Ti levels, whereas FFXIV performs a whopping 25% - 30% worse than what would be considered the norm for this card.

Also, as much as I wish it was just a misunderstanding, Gamers Nexus uses FFXIV as one of their standard games in benchmarking, so it safe to say, they didn't make a mistake either, the card just sucks in FFXIV right now, hopefully only temporarily >.<

[Gurgeh]

There could be architectural resin, but the most likely explanation for that much of an anomaly...
Is experimental error.
It's below gamers nexuses usual thoroughness not to comment on it if they didn't?

[empyreanfox]

There could be architectural resin, but the most likely explanation for that much of an anomaly...
Is experimental error.
It's below gamers nexuses usual thoroughness not to comment on it if they didn't?

Yea they said they've tested a bunch of times and they're looking into it >.< Fingers crossed still.

[s32ialx]

Proud but sad owner of a XFX 9070 XT and FSR is not able to be turned on, unless I am just being a blonde and it's forced on but greyed out to me usually means not enabled and the lil pop up when launching said FSR is not enabled.

Also Average FPS of 56 sitting idle in limsa.

[Alice_Rivers]

Proud but sad owner of a XFX 9070 XT and FSR is not able to be turned on, unless I am just being a blonde and it's forced on but greyed out to me usually means not enabled and the lil pop up when launching said FSR is not enabled.

If I recall correctly, the upsaling option only lights up if you reduce the scaling form 100%. It's also only FSR 1.0 so probably not worth bothering with. I have a 7800XT and manage upwards of 80-120fps (my panel refresh rate cap) at 1440p and max settings, I remember on Windows I could see 200+ in some places when I uncapped the frame rate.

[s32ialx]

yeah I have mine set to my monitor refresh rate of 165Hz, I would get around 70-120 FPS depending where I was with my old 3070 Ti, it's really sad to see it preform worse than a card that weak and old. I hope a fix comes soon