like i said, it happens even when there's only just a few people on the screen and even happens frequently in alliance raids which has never once caused me performance issues prior to 7.3. that setting you mentioned isn't on max either, and that 'save resources when tabbed out' setting is also already enabled. regardless, my computer should be more than capable of handling the game at max settings without any issue, and as i said, lowering settings doesn't change anything i'm not getting any framerate issues either, it's a stable 60FPS and never dips under that

i've looked in task manager as well like you suggested and my computer is not using much resources at all. for my cpu, the highest thing is FFXIV at 4% usage, everything else is under 1% and my overall cpu usage is 5%. for my memory/RAM, the highest is FFXIV at 3471MB and overall memory/RAM usage is 47%

this just makes me think there's something wrong with the game itself and it's not on my end i've run file integrity checks and everything turned up fine. i don't know what to do. i don't think there's anything i can do

EDIT: meant to reply with quote but i must've just clicked 'reply' instead, my bad!