Hi!
Wow, thats a long time I made the last post here. Anyway, I was an active FFXI player 2004-2007 and also played XIV 2010-2014. Now I want to play FFXI again and enjoy the story they added after I left. So I bought the Ultimate Collection, made a fresh install and reactivated my old characters. Everything was still there :)
Unfortunalety, I'm experiencing an annoying stutter effect in the game. I recorded a video of it: https://youtu.be/DOu6NmOZ9Gg
My system is an Alienware M17x R4, GeForce 680M, 12GB RAM, Win7 x64, nVidia Driver 359.00. Internet is 25Mbit down / 5 Mbit up VDSL and since the stutter is so constant, and the fact that' I'm running even GTAV fine on that machine, this can't be a performance issue.
After a bit of googling I found out that this problem is a common one. There are a lot of posts, and a lot of different solutions that worked for the people. I tried all of them, and nothing fixed it for me.
This is what I've tried so far:
- Testing with and without windower (and with and without "unlimited" plugin which removes the 30fps cap)
- Playing around in the SE config tool (Fullscreen / Borderless, Texture resolutions, Graphic stabilization etc.)
- Playing around in the nVidia settings, especially with vsync on and off
- Force it to use the nVidia GPU / Force it to use the Intel Integrated Graphics
- Exiting all unnecessary programs, especially antivirus
- Unplugging all USB devices except the ones I really need
- Disabling QOS in the network settings
- Disabling all network devices except the one where the internet is coming from :)
- Disabling all unnecessary HID devices in the device manager
- Set Process to only one CPU Core
- Run as Admin
The stuttering always stays constant exactly how it is in the video. Maybe someone has got another idea what I can try.
(Edit: Added stuff I tried)
Edited, Nov 29th 2015 6:03pm by Raveheart