Unable to detect directX and FFXIV close itself.

[corpsed]

I have exact same problem with 555M. None of the above solutions work, have tried them all. Hope they fix this soon so I can play more than 60 seconds at a time.

[Hayze]

I am useing the Nvidia 250, some days it will run for hours with no problem, some days within 10 mins of logging in I can dc 5 times, i've updated the drivers, overclocked the graphics card, played with the low setting all the way to the high settings.
Nothing is working!!!
We have the same thing as DinoC, my gf's laptop running and ATI graphic card has no issues with this crash,

If a dev is reading this please comment on this problem,
is it a SE software conflict with the Nvidia drivers, or is it my settings? what setting should I be using?
If its a known issue as Kitties mentioned is the concerned team working on this issue? are they close to finding a solution?
please help us Dev Team!!!

[Kiote]

If the problem you are having is that DirectX crashes while you are playing the game that was happening to me for a long time. All I had to do was change AA to x2 and it hasn't happened since.

[Exander]

1) Update Intel Chipset drivers
2) Update nVidia http://www.geforce.com/#/Drivers/Results/29659
3) google DirectX SDK Update

My laptop uses the 9700M GTS and I don't have a problem running XIV and it has a 2.0 Intel Core2Duo P7350

[Deli]

Another machine with lower specs running an ATI 4870 card with 512mb of memory, does not crash at all.

Which makes me believe this is only occuring with Nvidia Cards, anyone having the DirectX problem or similar with ATI cards?

I am using ASUS ATI 4870 1G ram on my desktop. It can run with standard mode with no problem. Only occasionally when it is too hot, I need to open up some fan...

I'm also having problem with this new Nvidia 550M on this game. Previously, I'm using a crappy HP dv6 i3-2310m laptop to play ff14 with no crash (detail = 3 background =1). But now with this i5-2410m Gt-550M laptop, I occasionally can play hours with no error. I already turn everything to Nvidia card only, but still...
I'm thinking since my crappy old i3-2410m can run my i5 should run better...

[Coldfire]

FFXIV is the only game which causes BSOD for me randomly... but SE won't fix such stuff since

When taking into consideration the performance of the PlayStation 3 version

fixing pc-specific issues would be pointless

[Vepien]

Hello, Im having the same problem in window mode only which is annoying since i cant surf the web at the same time to look up quest etc. i have a Dell XPS I7 and a 540m nivida card could someone tell me why this happens and how i can fix it

[Alise]

It seem that all people with Nvidia-Gforce 5XXM have problem with it. either 540M 550M and etc 500M series.

My laptop can turn off Nvidia card and still play with CPU alone, so I do that and now it work all okay. no longer any problem except that the graphic look suck without GPU help.

Is any of the SE technical team looking at this thread? so far with all the problem so many people report, you should realise that you have problem with 500M series Could you somehow work to fix it?

Please give some respond to our question, SE.

[Quietus]

oi - this issue is starting to piss me off. I've been playing the game fine for months and haven't had any changes on my pc in as much time. Today I've had this error happen 3 times. What gives.

[Monkey]

I know this is an old thread, but....

I had this problem for a long time. Could not run the game in window mode because I always received the directX error after playing for a little while. I tried everything suggested on this thread, but nothing helped or they would be temporary help.

Yesterday I read in a thread about disabling Windows 7 Aero or Desktop Composition when running this game in order to hog less resources. Decided to give that a try and decided to also give window mode a try again and voila it worked.

Find the "ffxivgame.exe" (not the ffxivboot.exe or ffxivconfig.exe) in your FFXIV directory folder
Right Click it and go to "properties".
Under the "Compatibility" tab check "Disable Desktop Composition".
Then Click apply or OK.
Config the game to run in windows mode via FFXIV Config. Then run and enjoy the game in windows mode. I know this wont fix everyones problem. But hopefully it fixes a few.