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Am I allowed to discuss a technical problem I have in beta?

superpatasuperpata Member UncommonPosts: 190
in Final Fantasy XIV
Hello everyone, well I am having an issue, tried to post it on the official forums but the feedback from other members is slow at the moment. Am i allowed to ask for advice here?: ) or would that break the limited NDA?

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  • darkrain21darkrain21 Member UncommonPosts: 383
    Yes as of Phase 3 you can discuss the game and show pictures but no videos.
  • superpatasuperpata Member UncommonPosts: 190

    Ok here is the problem, in certain places when I move the camera even if just a tiny bit, my fps plummet. This does not happen in other games or even in many zones in this game either. I also do not experience fps drop if I am walking or strafing.

    Here are two pictures that show the issue (I am inside Coral Tower, marauder's guild if anyone wants to try):

    notice the fps drop in the system window

     

     

  • zastenzasten Member Posts: 283
    Lots of games have this problem, even gw2 has it on occasion!
  • superpatasuperpata Member UncommonPosts: 190

    It seems to be a bug while rendering in certain places once I stop moving the camera fps goes back to normal. In a normal place doing this only lowers my fps by 2 or so, here it is a massive 14 fps. I was wondering if I could solve this, but I guess it is game related. Could try the new beta drivers but I am having no faith:P

    PS: Lowering the graphics to standard does not solve the issue at all either, my card vram is also far from reaching its limit and I have 8gb of ram.

  • SeariasSearias Member UncommonPosts: 743
    Originally posted by superpata

    It seems to be a bug while rendering in certain places once I stop moving the camera fps goes back to normal. In a normal place doing this only lowers my fps by 2 or so, here it is a massive 14 fps. I was wondering if I could solve this, but I guess it is game related. Could try the new beta drivers but I am having no faith:P

    PS: Lowering the graphics to standard does not solve the issue at all either, my card vram is also far from reaching its limit and I have 8gb of ram.

    whats your cpu specs? Most MMOs are CPU bound.

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  • BetaguyBetaguy Member UncommonPosts: 2,629
    SWTOR had this exact issue in a couple areas.  You have to wait for them to optimize that area, broken code/memory leaks/or something like that.  Report it and they will get to it.
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  • bigbudzbigbudz Member Posts: 52
    Adaptive PCI-E power management or Vsync being enabled/forced/adaptive may cause this issue in some games. It may not apply to you but change these settings for your video card to see if it resolves the issue.

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  • RaxeonRaxeon Member UncommonPosts: 2,288
    whats your normal fps? and are you runnign vsync and fullscreen mode
  • superpatasuperpata Member UncommonPosts: 190

    Hey again, thanks for all replies I will try to look at some of the things suggested here.

    Vsync was disabled, made sure of that

    Normal fps is around 30+ (not sure outside the city though, prolly higher). I scored 2,7k (fairly high) in the benchmark with maximum settings. In game I am not using the maximum settings.

    Cpu is not very fast, but has not been an issue in other mmos even filled with 20+players, i7 720QM.

    The issue seems to be present mostly in some areas in Limsa Lominsa, but I will play more and report back when I have more info. Again thank you all.

  • RynetRynet Member UncommonPosts: 114
    You do know the game is running debug programming during beta phases? This can cause more load.  
  • RaxeonRaxeon Member UncommonPosts: 2,288
    Originally posted by superpata

    Hey again, thanks for all replies I will try to look at some of the things suggested here.

    Vsync was disabled, made sure of that

    Normal fps is around 30+ (not sure outside the city though, prolly higher). I scored 2,7k (fairly high) in the benchmark with maximum settings. In game I am not using the maximum settings.

    Cpu is not very fast, but has not been an issue in other mmos even filled with 20+players, i7 720QM.

    The issue seems to be present mostly in some areas in Limsa Lominsa, but I will play more and report back when I have more info. Again thank you all.

    you could try disabling the hyper threading abit on that i7 

  • superpatasuperpata Member UncommonPosts: 190
    I will try to force the game to use 4 cores, maybe that will kill the 4 other vitual threads. There is no bios option to directly kill hyperthreading.
  • superpatasuperpata Member UncommonPosts: 190

    So far running with one or two cores reduces the framerate, running with 4 or "8" holds the same framerate. In any case I experience the same issue, that is, no matter how many cores are runnng the framerate still drops a lot when I just turn around slightly. 

    Here are two screens showing strafing, which does not compromise the framerate.

     

     

  • superpatasuperpata Member UncommonPosts: 190
    I will go outside now and report if those zones also have issues:)
  • AIMonsterAIMonster Member UncommonPosts: 2,059

    Why would you disable occlusion?  It's a nice performance increase for zero impact on graphical quality.  I don't even understand why they have the option to disable it.

  • RaxeonRaxeon Member UncommonPosts: 2,288
    Originally posted by superpata
    I will try to force the game to use 4 cores, maybe that will kill the 4 other vitual threads. There is no bios option to directly kill hyperthreading.

    was you able too?

  • superpatasuperpata Member UncommonPosts: 190
    Originally posted by AIMonster

    Why would you disable occlusion?  It's a nice performance increase for zero impact on graphical quality.  I don't even understand why they have the option to disable it.

    I read the tooltip and it says "disable rendering of objects when not visible"  So leaving  it on disable seems to enable the occlusion? That is how I interpret it becaus in max settings that option is not selected by default, while in high it is.

  • superpatasuperpata Member UncommonPosts: 190
    Originally posted by Raxeon
    Originally posted by superpata
    I will try to force the game to use 4 cores, maybe that will kill the 4 other vitual threads. There is no bios option to directly kill hyperthreading.

    was you able too?

    I think so, I mean only 2 threads were running when I set my affinity correctly, but other than that I can't access the bios hyperthreading.

     

    I am testing the game outside and the "bug" does not happen at all! it is always running 28 or more fps! 

  • AIMonsterAIMonster Member UncommonPosts: 2,059
    Originally posted by superpata
    Originally posted by AIMonster

    Why would you disable occlusion?  It's a nice performance increase for zero impact on graphical quality.  I don't even understand why they have the option to disable it.

    I read the tooltip and it says "disable rendering of objects when not visible"  So leaving  it on disable seems to enable the occlusion? That is how I interpret it becaus in max settings that option is not selected by default, while in high it is.

    Whoops, you're right.  I can't read.

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