Game no longer loads with Dawntrail launch

I give up; since Dawntrail launch I've spent move of the time trying to get wife's PC working. She passed (still passes) the benchmark with a solid "average" score.
Short version: She can log in characters as long as they are in relatively private zones. She can not zone into, or log into cities or similarly crowded areas.

Identical (possibly) to: this thread.

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Date & Time: since Dawntrail launch (Worked with prior update)
Frequency: Whenever character loads into City/Populated areas
Area and coordinates: Cities/Population zones

Steps:
1. Load game
2. Select Character
3. If that character is in a major city/population center, crash with error:
An unexpected error has occured. Exiting Final Fantasy XIV. 2024-6-18_01:56
ffxiv.dx11.exe + 161B47
ffxiv.dx11.exe + 161D5C
ffxiv.dx11.exe + 16206D0
ffxiv.dx11.exe + 1F3730
ffxiv.dx11.exe + 1F16FC
ffxiv.dx11.exe + 219F20
ffxiv.dx11.exe + 1B87E56
KERNEL32.DLL + 17344

Steps I have taken:
1) Reinstalled FFXIV (several times, in a variety of ways including copying from another working PC)
2) Updated, Down-dated, tried various nVidia drivers. Currently back to up-to-date.
3) Disabled any/all overlay programs (There were none, but checked; Steam is installed, but not loaded on startup; Game is Windows version, not Steam)
4) Throttled the CPU with afterburner to try under-clocking
5) Limited the FPS to 60
6) Moved the character on alternate PC to "Safe spaces" (Private housing, residential district; anywhere with no people really). Crash resumed on problem-PC any time any character entered a city area.
7) Could run roulettes (raid and leveling)
8) The hard drive from the problem PC, when placed into my (working) PC, works/logs in fine.

■ PC Specs

To obtain the system information, open the FFXIV launcher and select Config → System Information → Display.



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You're not the only one with this problem. No solution found at the moment unfortunately.

Here is a list of threads and bug reports with the same issue, with the game crashing in cities area you can keep an eye on in case something happens in the next days.


https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...to-a-main-city

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-Old-Sharlayan

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...or-gold-Saucer

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...oad-from-login

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...me-after-queue

Thank you for the cross references;

I would add I've seen a lot more on Reddit; hopefully there are enough for the devs to consider a fix.


It seems everyone has the AMD Phenom CPU, but who knows. Am curious if it is in any way related to the Xbox/PS5 problems... They both have AMD cores...

Quote:

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Originally Posted by kaynide

It seems everyone has the AMD Phenom CPU, but who knows. Am curious if it is in any way related to the Xbox/PS5 problems... They both have AMD cores...

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Yes, mostly Phenom but also a Rysen 9, and if the Xbox and PS5 hardware is also at fault, there is definitely something wrong with AMD processors since 7.0 patch that never was an issue before.

Both PS5 and XBox (assuming google is right) use "AMD Zen 2"

I don't know enough about it to make any claims, but I know there is a major problem with PS5/Xbox that was announced for an incoming hotfix...so here's hoping we get in on that!

Definitely happening to more people than we'd like. It's every major city, same problem.

Test runs below - This was seriously time consuming since it meant logging in on another computer to move the character, logging out, logging in on this machine and crashing (or not) and repeating.

Character used for these tests is Kiiari who has finished Endwalker but not started (due to the bug) Dawntrail.

So far the locations I can confirm give the error:

Ul'Dah
Gridania
Limsa
Foundation
Crystarium
Old Sharlayan
Mor Dhona
Idyllshire
Eulmore
Rhalgr's Reach
Radz-at-Han
The Lochs (Not sure why this one?)
Kugane
khoulisia - everywhere

I will add I tested a few zones and dungeons. Mostly I wanted to see if it had to do with water, or a skybox.

It seems to only be an issue when X number of players are around. Perhaps related to culling models or the new "show only NPCs nearby if lots of PCs are around"?