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

[NeiyaX]

Hmm I haven't had any problems like that. I do have Radeon Chill on with the fps limited to 143 (idle and peak the same), just below my monitor's refresh rate. Without that, the game would hit ~180 fps in a lot of areas; turning on Radeon enhanced sync completely eliminated tearing effects and this was fine but with hot summer nights coming I found limiting the fps cut about 100W off the card's power consumption for no discernible loss.

I also had jittery fps in crowded areas at first, which wasn't there with my old 3080, but Radeon enhanced sync eliminated that as well. Granted I am capping max fps so I'm not using the full potential of the GPU in this game, but I can't say performs any worse than my 3080 did and I have not had any crashes or issues that weren't solved with Adrenalin settings.

Yeah I guess as long as you keep in-game fps within your monitor's refresh rate you'll be fine since enhanced sync is basically an alternative to vsync with no frame cap. The game falls apart as soon as you go beyond that tho.
I've found posts with the same problem dated back as far as 6 years ago, I'm just a little surprised that there isn't an official fix for this yet. I almost gave up on FF14 before I found that video on youtube.

A lot of the Japanese PC players are moving to AMD cards due to the price hike for the rtx 50 series, and I don't think it's a good idea to let everyone of them go through this mandatory troubleshooting process. I'm posting here in hope of letting others know about this also.

EDIT: Tested w/enhanced sync & Radeon Chill capping @120 fps (monitor set to 144hz), around 80-100 fps in limsa, buttery smooth. Seems to work better than vsync will keep testing and see what happens

EDIT2: I've heard it's mostly a 24H2 problem and apparently the workaround is to install the driver on a different hard drive than your system. (For example if your system is on C drive install the driver and adrenaline on D) There are reports by reinstalling the AMD driver on a different hard drive, it solves most of the screen freeze and crash problems. I'm doing just that and currently it's working fine.