Minimazing FFXI (Newbie question)

[Dragoy]

I've narrowed it down to a driver issue, more than likely it's the nVidia sound driver, and my SB Recon 3D coming to blows, deactivating the nVidia driver keeps the system crashes to minimum. (I got a BSOD once, and deactivating the nVidia sound fixed it for the most part)

Which motherboard do you have, if you don't mind me asking?

Sounds a bit familiar to a time when I had one such board, where I would have some issues if using the integrated sound. :S

[Teraniku]

Which motherboard do you have, if you don't mind me asking?

Sounds a bit familiar to a time when I had one such board, where I would have some issues if using the integrated sound. :S

ASUS P6TD Deluxe

[Dragoy]

ASUS P6TD Deluxe

Ah, definitely not the same chip-set then.
Is it the HDMI or in other words, video card that is of nVidia make?

Either way, it definitely shouldn't be crashing if something else doesn't for example change the graphics settings and whatnot. You indeed seem to have some deeper issues there, and unless that Blue Screen mentioned a video/sound driver specifically, I would strongly recommend running memtest86+ a few, if you haven't yet.

Bad memory modules are possibly the most common reason for those nice screens to appear, though depending of the stop error, it could indeed indicate a driver issue just as well.