Last night I went and upgraded my video card from an AMD 7850 to an NVIDIA GTX 770 (MSI OC Edition).
Anyway, after installing the new card along with the latest drivers I fire up FFXIV and immediately notice problems. As soon as I get to the startup menu I start noticing screen stuttering. The particles floating in the background would stutter/skip every couple seconds. This only becomes worse once I get into the character selection screen, where the same thing happens but only more pronounced. I log into the game, and everything seems fine for the most part. However, after a couple of minutes of playing I begin to notice FPS drops and stuttering within the game world.
(The performance on my old AMD 7850 was actually fine for FFXIV; the upgrade was mainly for a few other games I play.)
So far I've tried a number of things. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the latest drivers, as well as reverting back to older drivers. I don't think this is a common issue, as I couldn't find any reports of this online. I'm having no problems with other games/programs, only FFXIV.
System specs are the following:
-3.6 GHz Intel Core i7-3820 (64 bit Quad-Core)
-16GB DDR3 1333 RAM
-MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB 256-bit GDDR5
-800W Power Supply
-2TB SATA III 6.0Gb/s 7200RPM HD
-ASRock X79 Extreme 4 MOBO
Any help would be greatly appreciated. This has been extremely frustrating, especially since I spent $400+ on something that's supposed to be an upgrade.
UPDATE:
I got home and followed a very thorough guide on how to get rid of ALL traces of old AMD/NVIDIA drivers. Shut down my computer, looked into the case to make sure everything was ok. Rebooted my computer and installed a fresh set of the latest NVIDIA drivers. SAME PROBLEM!
I turned on MSI Afterburner to see if it was a GPU temp problem; GPU temperature reached a MAX of 36 degrees C! No idea what the hell the problem is, and not sure what else I could do. So frustrating!!
Anyway, after installing the new card along with the latest drivers I fire up FFXIV and immediately notice problems. As soon as I get to the startup menu I start noticing screen stuttering. The particles floating in the background would stutter/skip every couple seconds. This only becomes worse once I get into the character selection screen, where the same thing happens but only more pronounced. I log into the game, and everything seems fine for the most part. However, after a couple of minutes of playing I begin to notice FPS drops and stuttering within the game world.
(The performance on my old AMD 7850 was actually fine for FFXIV; the upgrade was mainly for a few other games I play.)
So far I've tried a number of things. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the latest drivers, as well as reverting back to older drivers. I don't think this is a common issue, as I couldn't find any reports of this online. I'm having no problems with other games/programs, only FFXIV.
System specs are the following:
-3.6 GHz Intel Core i7-3820 (64 bit Quad-Core)
-16GB DDR3 1333 RAM
-MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB 256-bit GDDR5
-800W Power Supply
-2TB SATA III 6.0Gb/s 7200RPM HD
-ASRock X79 Extreme 4 MOBO
Any help would be greatly appreciated. This has been extremely frustrating, especially since I spent $400+ on something that's supposed to be an upgrade.
UPDATE:
I got home and followed a very thorough guide on how to get rid of ALL traces of old AMD/NVIDIA drivers. Shut down my computer, looked into the case to make sure everything was ok. Rebooted my computer and installed a fresh set of the latest NVIDIA drivers. SAME PROBLEM!
I turned on MSI Afterburner to see if it was a GPU temp problem; GPU temperature reached a MAX of 36 degrees C! No idea what the hell the problem is, and not sure what else I could do. So frustrating!!
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