The frame limiter in ff8 is poor but not totally broken like ff7. That's part of it.,
- Second, if using the speed up option in Steam, that can have issues.
- Failing that - try forcing 1 CPU and not multiple cores, by going to task manager and selecting affinity option to use ONLY 'CPU 0'.
- You could always also try with Aero or whatever bells and whistles ff10 uses in the background.
- Look at task manager cpu usage and see what else is eating processor power.
- Try without any antivirus software running
- Try setting graphic card to use max performance instead of power saving
- Make sure CPU setting is set to performance and not a saving mode.
All of those suggestions made no difference.
Original Graphic Mode and low resolution (one or the other) gets rid of it but it makes the game look bad.
Taking off the graphical mods doesn't help either.
I wish to play at 1080p without Original Graphic Mode.
For testing, I tried my original disc copy of FF8 and the problem doesn't occur there. It only appears on the Steam version, even without using the speed up option.
It occurs in areas that have a kind of blur effect on screen like in the before mentioned areas.