Final Fantasy 15 Hitching / Poor Performance

sargentchimera

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I've been trying to play FF15 and have been having pretty mediocre results.

My frame rate is generally around 30, dipping below it sometimes, sometimes going as high as 40. Ill get severe hitches in battle every now and then, pausing up to 10 seconds occasionally. I feel these results are very bad considering my hardware and benchmarks I've seen

For reference, I have the game at 4k widescreen (21/9), everything maxed including the NVIDIA settings.
My system is made up of an i7 4790k @ 4.7ghz, 1080ti, 16gb ram, installed on a SSD using Windows 8.1

If I change the resolution to 1920/1080, I only gain 3-5fps, if I turn TRAM to high (instead of highest) I gain 3-5fps, if I turn all of the NVIDIA setting off I gain maybe 10fps, regardless of all these changes I still have hitching during battle and overall very low FPS.

I run the game with the games internal FPS counter and it tells me my RAM and VRAM usage, with RAM being around 98% used (of 16gb) and Vram being 90% (of 12gb).

I am not sure what the problem is, I have the latest drivers, vsync is off, I’ve tried full screen and borderless windowed, and no programs running in the background.

Any help is truly appreciated!