Poor FPS with high-end rig?

[Midnight]

It sounds more like the CPU or HD is what's getting bogged down. If GPU drops below 50% that's usually indication of a bottleneck elsewhere. It would not surprise me if it's CPU since FFXIV is DX9 only and doesn't fully utilize quad core or higher CPU's.

[Xiaolin]

It sounds more like the CPU or HD is what's getting bogged down. If GPU drops below 50% that's usually indication of a bottleneck elsewhere. It would not surprise me if it's CPU since FFXIV is DX9 only and doesn't fully utilize quad core or higher CPU's.

W. T. F.

Seriously?? Is this true?? UGH. LAME Square LAME. Quad cores are quite old now and not supporting them is just STUPID.
What morons do you have coding this game anyway?? NOT inspiring faith thats for damn sure.

At any rate I have my own thread on performance issues with a Radeon 6870 HD the game runs at acceptable frames with most settings at max but there is an unacceptable stutter that happens every 5-10secs that makes the game not fun to play.