Square have broken FFXV’s performance on PC?

[sammykneen]

Something is seriously screwed up with this game’s performance now.

I’m using a GTX 1080 and an i7-8750h @ 4.1ghz with 32GB RAM, on a clean install of Windows and Drivers in High Performance mode with no background programs running, and just casually running around with nothing going on the framerate will drop to 10fps and then shoot back up to 60 which freezes the screen for up to 2 seconds. Locking to 30fps doesn’t solve this, and it happens regardless of low, average, or high settings at any resolution.

Fighting Necromancers/Mindflayers or being inflicted with Toad by the enemies in Insomnia tanks the framerate down to single digits and I can’t even see what’s going on.

Tried Special K but any combination of it’s settings don’t improve anything for me at all sadly.

I have no idea what they’ve done but it’s really sad because this game was finally starting to feel like a complete game and now it’s virtually broken.


PS: I play the PC version via my partner’s account which is why I don’t have a mouse icon, I’m strongly against piracy and am a huge Final Fantasy fan as you can see from my library.

[Spectral]

Try switching from fullscreen to borderless in the display settings.

[CatPerson]

Are you using the in-game fps counter? If so, try turning it off.

[sammykneen]

Originally posted by spectral2k:

Try switching from fullscreen to borderless in the display settings.

I’ve tried that sadly, thankyou for the suggestion though.

[sammykneen]

Originally posted by CatPerson:

Are you using the in-game fps counter? If so, try turning it off.

Not using it. :(

[Spectral]

I was getting generally good performance except for the half second to a second freezes while running round the open world. I did a combination of the following and it seemed to clear up, at least I haven't noticed it since, although I haven't played much.

Changed the settings in special k from critical to the one down.
Disabled the in game Vsync option can capped it with special k instead
Changed from fullscreen to borderless
Deleted the games built in profile from the Nvidia drivers using Nvidia Inspector.

I don't know if its any one of those or a combination of them that helped.

[sammykneen]

Originally posted by spectral2k:

I was getting generally good performance except for the half second to a second freezes while running round the open world. I did a combination of the following and it seemed to clear up, at least I haven't noticed it since, although I haven't played much.

Changed the settings in special k from critical to the one down.
Disabled the in game Vsync option can capped it with special k instead
Changed from fullscreen to borderless
Deleted the games built in profile from the Nvidia drivers using Nvidia Inspector.

I don't know if its any one of those or a combination of them that helped.

Thanks for the reply.

What GPU and CPU do you use and do you have it installed on an SSD or HDD?

I tried every combination of thread priority in Special K but sadly it didn’t help. Spent about 4 hours testing it before just uninstalling it. :(

Have tried with Gsync On, Gsync Off, Vsync On and Vsync Off in both Fullscreen and Borderless Windowed and nothing seems to stop the game turning into a freeze frame slideshow in some situations. I’ve monitored my GPU, CPU and RAM usage as well and nothing is out of the ordinary so I’m at a loss.

I did try rolling back my driver to one before the Final Fantasy XV profile was added but I haven’t tried just deleting the profile from the newer drivers so I will try that like you suggested.

[Garudakings]

Update you driver?

[Spectral]

Originally posted by sammykneen:

Originally posted by spectral2k:

I was getting generally good performance except for the half second to a second freezes while running round the open world. I did a combination of the following and it seemed to clear up, at least I haven't noticed it since, although I haven't played much.

Changed the settings in special k from critical to the one down.
Disabled the in game Vsync option can capped it with special k instead
Changed from fullscreen to borderless
Deleted the games built in profile from the Nvidia drivers using Nvidia Inspector.

I don't know if its any one of those or a combination of them that helped.

Thanks for the reply.

What GPU and CPU do you use and do you have it installed on an SSD or HDD?

I tried every combination of thread priority in Special K but sadly it didn’t help. Spent about 4 hours testing it before just uninstalling it. :(

Have tried with Gsync On, Gsync Off, Vsync On and Vsync Off in both Fullscreen and Borderless Windowed and nothing seems to stop the game turning into a freeze frame slideshow in some situations. I’ve monitored my GPU, CPU and RAM usage as well and nothing is out of the ordinary so I’m at a loss.

I did try rolling back my driver to one before the Final Fantasy XV profile was added but I haven’t tried just deleting the profile from the newer drivers so I will try that like you suggested.

My specs are

GTX 1070 (lightly OC'd)
Intel 6700K (4.5Ghz)
16GB 3200Mhz RAM
Samsung Sata3 SSD
Nvidia Drivers 419.67

The two options I changed just before it seemed better were setting it to borderless and disabling V-Sync and setting a FPS limit of 60 in special k. However as I mentioned I haven't played much yet, it's possible nothing is fixed at all, or it'll still go bad in more demanding areas.

I can handle some performance dip though, its the random freezing for a second or so I find really jarring. If it starts up again I'll switch to the console version. I'd rather have 30fps than the weird freezing glitches.

[Ardenian]

If you overclock your processor, try disabling that, since the documentation states 4.00 GHz as base frequency and one should never overclock more than 10%. Try disabling overclocking entirely and see if it changes anything.

[sammykneen]

Originally posted by Garudakings:

Update you driver?

Thanks for the suggestion but like I mentioned in my post I’ve already even tried a fresh install of Windows and up to date Drivers :(

[sammykneen]

Originally posted by Ardenian:

If you overclock your processor, try disabling that, since the documentation states 4.00 GHz as base frequency and one should never overclock more than 10%. Try disabling overclocking entirely and see if it changes anything.

Thanks for the reply, I haven’t overclocked it though sadly, 4.1ghz is it’s stock Turbo Boost speed: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/134906/intel-core-i7-8750h-processor-9m-cache-up-to-4-10-ghz.html

I guess I could try and disable Turbo Boost though now that you mention it, although that would leave me with a 2.2ghz base frequency so not sure whether that would make it worse.

[Spectral]

It's not likely to be that, the CPU is designed to use the turbo boost when applicable. It's not an overclock, it's part of the spec. An overclock would only cause the issue if it was pushed to an unstable level.

Besides if it was your CPU it would have been happening previously too and you said the game used to run fine.

[sammykneen]

Originally posted by spectral2k:

Originally posted by sammykneen:

Thanks for the reply.

What GPU and CPU do you use and do you have it installed on an SSD or HDD?

I tried every combination of thread priority in Special K but sadly it didn’t help. Spent about 4 hours testing it before just uninstalling it. :(

Have tried with Gsync On, Gsync Off, Vsync On and Vsync Off in both Fullscreen and Borderless Windowed and nothing seems to stop the game turning into a freeze frame slideshow in some situations. I’ve monitored my GPU, CPU and RAM usage as well and nothing is out of the ordinary so I’m at a loss.

I did try rolling back my driver to one before the Final Fantasy XV profile was added but I haven’t tried just deleting the profile from the newer drivers so I will try that like you suggested.

My specs are

GTX 1070 (lightly OC'd)
Intel 6700K (4.5Ghz)
16GB 3200Mhz RAM
Samsung Sata3 SSD
Nvidia Drivers 419.67

The two options I changed just before it seemed better were setting it to borderless and disabling V-Sync and setting a FPS limit of 60 in special k. However as I mentioned I haven't played much yet, it's possible nothing is fixed at all, or it'll still go bad in more demanding areas.

I can handle some performance dip though, its the random freezing for a second or so I find really jarring. If it starts up again I'll switch to the console version. I'd rather have 30fps than the weird freezing glitches.

Yeah I’m the same, I really don’t mind a few performance dips, especially since I have G-Sync, but the freezing and unfreezing is unbearable. Doesn’t happen at all on my PS4 Pro version. I don’t remember it being like this at launch and I’ve tried older drivers, which is what makes me think it’s down to an update the PC version has recieved.

[Ardenian]

Originally posted by sammykneen:

Originally posted by Ardenian:

If you overclock your processor, try disabling that, since the documentation states 4.00 GHz as base frequency and one should never overclock more than 10%. Try disabling overclocking entirely and see if it changes anything.

Thanks for the reply, I haven’t overclocked it though sadly, 4.1ghz is it’s stock Turbo Boost speed: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/134906/intel-core-i7-8750h-processor-9m-cache-up-to-4-10-ghz.html

I guess I could try and disable Turbo Boost though now that you mention it, although that would leave me with a 2.2ghz base frequency so not sure whether that would make it worse.

Oh sorry, I confused your specifications with those of another user commenting here.

Generally, try to disable any third party tools that claim to enhance performance and see if that does anything. My processor, for instance, runs at 2.67 GHz and FF15 runs at constant 30FPS. I do have framerate locked, though, otherwise it wouldn't run over around 38 FPS anyways. Zhis also includes stuff like High Performance modes of your hardware. Setting everything to average sometimes helps to find the issue, as some modes require certain configurations resulting in strange performance behaviors.

[sammykneen]

Originally posted by Ardenian:

Originally posted by sammykneen:

Thanks for the reply, I haven’t overclocked it though sadly, 4.1ghz is it’s stock Turbo Boost speed: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/134906/intel-core-i7-8750h-processor-9m-cache-up-to-4-10-ghz.html

I guess I could try and disable Turbo Boost though now that you mention it, although that would leave me with a 2.2ghz base frequency so not sure whether that would make it worse.

Oh sorry, I confused your specifications with those of another user commenting here.

Generally, try to disable any third party tools that claim to enhance performance and see if that does anything. My processor, for instance, runs at 2.67 GHz and FF15 runs at constant 30FPS. I do have framerate locked, though, otherwise it wouldn't run over around 38 FPS anyways. Zhis also includes stuff like High Performance modes of your hardware. Setting everything to average sometimes helps to find the issue, as some modes require certain configurations resulting in strange performance behaviors.

That’s ok. I tried disabling Turbo Boost but it didn’t help at all sadly. Like I mentioned in the post I’ve even clean installed Windows and Drivers and tried the game with nothing else running on the PC whatsoever and I have the same results, whether on Low, Average, or High settings. I still get the mini-freezes if I lock the framerate to 30. The framerate counter just shows it dropping to 5-10fps when it happens instead of the 10-15fps it shows when the framerate is locked to 60.