Freeze/Crash & BSOD issues

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http://www.overclock.net/t/1267918/g...d-undervolting. Following those instructions, which was basically just that one command for me because I didn't care for the overclock, stopped the crashing and freezing completely.

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I have no experience with cmd, and i tried too make a .bat but i have no idea what the hell kind of text im supposed too put in it xD i tried the lines that were suggested but they didn't work, so i probably did something wrong. I mean theres gotta be more than nvidiaInspector.exe -forcepstate:0,8 in cmd or the .bat file right? Im sorry though but i am completely lost in this :P
All the .bat file did was make a small black window that disappeared shortly after it popped up.

I would LOVE too try this though but i cant seem too figure it out gah!

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I have fix my crash/BOSD problem with my Asus GTX 770 DirectCu OC by changing Alimentation Mod in Nvidia Control Panel from "Adaptive" to "Maximal Performance". I have tested more than three weeks with no crash.

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This seems wonderful too and all but i dont have nvidia control panel showing up, and after i finally found it.. It didn't have Alimentation Mod anywhere in there i looked everywhere :/

I did test coil on friday, saturday and monday no crashes at all or anything like lagg or BSOD's. But i still keep getting random crashes outside, i seem too be safe in main cities for some reason. But when i go for AK or WP nothing can happen all run or i can freeze/crash 6 times in one run :P I've never crashed on Titan or Garuda yet either but i did crash on Ifrit a while back but i think its more stable now.

ANY tips would be appreciated!

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Originally Posted by HexxVexx

I have no experience with cmd, and i tried too make a .bat but i have no idea what the hell kind of text im supposed too put in it xD i tried the lines that were suggested but they didn't work, so i probably did something wrong. I mean theres gotta be more than nvidiaInspector.exe -forcepstate:0,8 in cmd or the .bat file right? Im sorry though but i am completely lost in this :P
All the .bat file did was make a small black window that disappeared shortly after it popped up.

I would LOVE too try this though but i cant seem too figure it out gah!



This seems wonderful too and all but i dont have nvidia control panel showing up, and after i finally found it.. It didn't have Alimentation Mod anywhere in there i looked everywhere :/

I did test coil on friday, saturday and monday no crashes at all or anything like lagg or BSOD's. But i still keep getting random crashes outside, i seem too be safe in main cities for some reason. But when i go for AK or WP nothing can happen all run or i can freeze/crash 6 times in one run :P I've never crashed on Titan or Garuda yet either but i did crash on Ifrit a while back but i think its more stable now.

ANY tips would be appreciated!

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Weird. What you're describing sounds like over voltage/over clock or under voltage/under clock issue of your CPU/GPU. When under heavy load, does your computer seem to ratchet itself back? I've had BSOD issues, but they were self induced by under volting or over volting the cores to eek out more performance.

It sounds like when your computer wants to ramp up for really demanding stuff, it tries to protect itself by dropping your cores down to reduce heat and causing the BSOD.

I take it you have an Intel/Nvidia machine? I haven't done a ton of tweaking with it, but by locking your pstate (this tells your cores what to run at and when to drop down if needed) in the highest state possible should fix the problem. I would imagine programs like BAR-EDIT should be able to accomplish the same thing.

I overvolt using AMD Overdrive and Trixx GPU utility. The programs are designed for AMD/APUs so they wouldn't work for intel/Nvidia, but for users with AMD machines, overdrive/trixx my be a viable solution. I've provided the names of a couple programs I know of to modify voltage core settings:

PSCheck
AMD OverDrive
BAR-EDIT

To Jaysnn:

I checked that error out you're getting. Sounds like a drive conflict. You're not using beta drivers or see any duplicate drivers right? You may need to boot into safe and completely remove your graphics driver and scrub your computer to make sure no traces of the driver linger (they tend to and they tend to cause problems). Reload the drivers and see if that works.

You may need to overvolt your CPU as well as the error from what I'm reading sounds like a core dump due to the CPU being limited to it's voltage draw. RAM problems give a different kind of error (Kernel Panic). Depending on your machine, you may be able to up your voltage in the BIOS, or by a third party program (see above). Check to make sure you're running the most recent BIOS firmware as well. When in doubt, call your computer OEM (ESPECIALLY about BIOS updates and how to perform them. If the BIOS flash fails, you may be able to go back at them for repair/RMA)

Its not really strange cause i run Crysis on almost full with 75-79c on graphics card and cpu around 65c in Crysis 3 and it almost didn't lag and it never crashed or got a BSOD, the only game that gets it is FFXIV ARR, and as said earlier my temps in this game are around 50-55 maybe 60 at most on gpu. So that doesent make sense at all. I have turned off and on overclock before didn't help still got freezes and still got BSOD. If BSOD was caused by overheat it would happen in other games too, especially Crysis 3.

I just wonder why only this game? Im just frustrated :/ ive ran stress test too and it went fine, i ran the whole stress test too :P with over clock, no issues.

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Originally Posted by HexxVexx

Its not really strange cause i run Crysis on almost full with 75-79c on graphics card and cpu around 65c in Crysis 3 and it almost didn't lag and it never crashed or got a BSOD, the only game that gets it is FFXIV ARR, and as said earlier my temps in this game are around 50-55 maybe 60 at most on gpu. So that doesent make sense at all. I have turned off and on overclock before didn't help still got freezes and still got BSOD. If BSOD was caused by overheat it would happen in other games too, especially Crysis 3.

I just wonder why only this game? Im just frustrated :/ ive ran stress test too and it went fine, i ran the whole stress test too :P with over clock, no issues.

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It's not so much actual heat. It's more the computer thinking it's running to hard and to avoid a Kernel Panic, it's ratcheting back. It could also be (more rarely) your power supply going out. Your temps are good. Your computer thinks there is something wrong.

You can try to lock your Pstate and over volt to see if it stabilizes.

so this is still going... :(
for me it barely even start. 30s after i push "Play" on the client my screen just goes black, my monitor loses signal, turns on and off a couple of times until i get the BSOD even on the lowest setting i can put it.
its a shame cuz i would quit WoW for this any day. I can play it on the ps3 but its not the same thing

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Originally Posted by Marishi-Ten

It's not so much actual heat. It's more the computer thinking it's running to hard and to avoid a Kernel Panic, it's ratcheting back. It could also be (more rarely) your power supply going out. Your temps are good. Your computer thinks there is something wrong.

You can try to lock your Pstate and over volt to see if it stabilizes.

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Oh i see.. Im sorry about the quick judgement then. Then you are right that this IS very strange xD
I tried the .bat thing yesterday i think i got it right after all but then the game started lagging like hell, even the chat lagged so i turned it back by using the change back to default .bat and that fixed it. I sadly cant play with that lag, but it may stop crashing though :P But with that lag its unplayable in the first place hehe. I really wish i could find a way too get a Nvidia control panel with that setting cause i got 770 gtx 4 gig as well and ive installed the newest driver but i still didn't get any control panel icon down in the right side corner, i just had to find it manually in the file directory, and it didn't have that setting :/

Edit: Nvidia control panel is not showing up in windows control panel itself i found out, im gonna have to look more into this :P

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Originally Posted by HexxVexx

Oh i see.. Im sorry about the quick judgement then. Then you are right that this IS very strange xD
I tried the .bat thing yesterday i think i got it right after all but then the game started lagging like hell, even the chat lagged so i turned it back by using the change back to default .bat and that fixed it. I sadly cant play with that lag, but it may stop crashing though :P But with that lag its unplayable in the first place hehe. I really wish i could find a way too get a Nvidia control panel with that setting cause i got 770 gtx 4 gig as well and ive installed the newest driver but i still didn't get any control panel icon down in the right side corner, i just had to find it manually in the file directory, and it didn't have that setting :/

Edit: Nvidia control panel is not showing up in windows control panel itself i found out, im gonna have to look more into this :P

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Can you describe the lag? Is it network lag, frame rate lag, render lag? If you set the PState too high and you aren't driving your voltages up, you will see driver crashes or the GPU unable to render due to there not being enough voltage to drive the cores.

Can you install the control panel separately? I found a link to the stand alone control panel client:

http://nvidia-display-control-panel.updatestar.com/

Ill try link thanks, but the lag is fast and choppy and its not network lag it is when i run the bat file with the first command line nvidiaInspector.exe -forcepstate:0,8, when turned back to default lag stops. And i got an Intel processor by the way, Intel Core i74770K. Im trying to adjust in the control panel i found in the file directory, and trying to make the my graphic card work differently and testing settings that might help :P

Im scared to screw around with voltage though, im afraid i might break something :/

Edit: that link gave me malware, i had too stop download midway thank god i didn't download it all.. Both malwarebytes + adv cleaner found a lot of shit :/ That download place is NOT safe, atleast not anymore... Great now i probably have to format -_-* GAH!

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Originally Posted by HexxVexx

Ill try link thanks, but the lag is fast and choppy and its not network lag it is when i run the bat file with the first command line nvidiaInspector.exe -forcepstate:0,8, when turned back to default lag stops. And i got an Intel processor by the way, Intel Core i74770K. Im trying to adjust in the control panel i found in the file directory, and trying to make the my graphic card work differently and testing settings that might help :P

Im scared to screw around with voltage though, im afraid i might break something :/

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You're locking your pstate into a set parameter. I don't know Nvidia very well, but 0,8 might be max settings. The problem with locking your state is that your cores are on full throttle, but your running on empty. The cores sound like they are having a hard time maintaining their frequency due to the clock (locking your state isn't overclocking, but it's pretty close to it). Your PState is running max while your BIOS thinks it should be giving non performance voltage.

Odds are you're going to have to up your voltage. It's not too dangerous, just don't red line it out the gate. Up it incrementally until you start to artifact/core dump. Then you know how high you can take it. The biggest thing is to NOT max your voltage on the first go. Up it a few .xx volts at a time.

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My Max NB/CPU vid Voltage is about 1.3 volts. Depending on temp, I may run to 1.31 (cold) or to 1.28 (hot). I don't exceed 1.31 EVER as I have core dumped and there was so much draw on my power supply that my computer stopped charging. I was lucky. If I blew a DC fuse, I would be getting a new computer.

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Originally Posted by Marishi-Ten

To Jaysnn:

I checked that error out you're getting. Sounds like a drive conflict. You're not using beta drivers or see any duplicate drivers right? You may need to boot into safe and completely remove your graphics driver and scrub your computer to make sure no traces of the driver linger (they tend to and they tend to cause problems). Reload the drivers and see if that works.

You may need to overvolt your CPU as well as the error from what I'm reading sounds like a core dump due to the CPU being limited to it's voltage draw. RAM problems give a different kind of error (Kernel Panic). Depending on your machine, you may be able to up your voltage in the BIOS, or by a third party program (see above). Check to make sure you're running the most recent BIOS firmware as well. When in doubt, call your computer OEM (ESPECIALLY about BIOS updates and how to perform them. If the BIOS flash fails, you may be able to go back at them for repair/RMA)

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I have tried these suggestions, but unfortunately I am still crashing, laptop just shuts completely down. I am not sure what to do next. I have downloaded different programs trying to make adjustments, but very few adjustments can be made. I am unsure of my next move.

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Originally Posted by Marishi-Ten

You're locking your pstate into a set parameter. I don't know Nvidia very well, but 0,8 might be max settings. The problem with locking your state is that your cores are on full throttle, but your running on empty. The cores sound like they are having a hard time maintaining their frequency due to the clock (locking your state isn't overclocking, but it's pretty close to it). Your PState is running max while your BIOS thinks it should be giving non performance voltage.

Odds are you're going to have to up your voltage. It's not too dangerous, just don't red line it out the gate. Up it incrementally until you start to artifact/core dump. Then you know how high you can take it. The biggest thing is to NOT max your voltage on the first go. Up it a few .xx volts at a time.

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My Max NB/CPU vid Voltage is about 1.3 volts. Depending on temp, I may run to 1.31 (cold) or to 1.28 (hot). I don't exceed 1.31 EVER as I have core dumped and there was so much draw on my power supply that my computer stopped charging. I was lucky. If I blew a DC fuse, I would be getting a new computer.

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Okay, that explains a lot :P but what do you mean by up it incrementally until you start to artifact/core dump I would want to not damage my graphic card as it was expensive but, ill probably have to get into this voltage stuff, and read more about it. And increase/decrease it incrementally like you said.

On my other issue, i killed the malware/virus trash by the way. But ill probably format just in case later. Seriously the site is fine i think but the download link said it came from THAT site so i thought its okay but, that's not the case :/ i got pup's all over the place and other stuff installed without me agreeing to it before the download was even complete.

Flattening solved my problem.

I reinstalled Win 7. I had all current drivers and BIOS updates before. A few things come to mind after all this that could be the root cause.

1. Newer video driver (Nvidia 580M SLI)
2. Direct X
3. Game controller driver (Logitech F710)
4. Related to a game patch

This time I used all the most current drivers except Nvidia where I went with 314.22 that people on ffxiv forums were saying was stable.

For the controller I had trouble reinstalling it and had to use a Microsoft driver to get it to work. Then had same crashing problems again in game. So I wonder if it was the problem. This was caused by having the controller already plugged in when I installed the driver. Don't do this. The only way I could figure out to fix was wiping the machine a 2nd time. With this install game worked fine.

On Direct X I had used the most recent from the Web. This time I'm just using the one that came with the game.

So again for me wiping and a good clean install of everything seems to have worked. Right now the most likely source of issue was newer video driver, Direct X, or game controller driver and maybe related to a game patch. I've been able to play game well now for a few days on high laptop settings with no crashes and good fps. Hope this helps you.

Not sure if I was having the same issue as everyone else here (system freezes requiring a hard reset that only happened while playing ffxiv) - but after trying a gazillion and 1 things to try and remedy it I seem to have fixed it.

If you have an nvidia card, check the physx settings in the nvidia control panel and make it's not set to "auto detect" - change it to your gpu instead.

Sadly, no driver is stable for me so far they all crash about the same amount and in the same way, so i use the best preforming one which is the newest at the moment. But i only crashes ONCE yesterday in 2 WP runs, but ill need to do more testing.
But there's more drivers in november i haven't tried out. Anyways i love the last driver performance vise, increased my score on benchmark by a whooping 3k! :P
Besides im running windows 8.1 64 bit.

I'll try captain_crunch's method now and see if it works :) Atleast i found that in my nvidia control panel :P Thanks for all your help so far, im going to try all this.

Hopefully someone sees this post because im at a complete loss on it, for whatever reason it'll crash right after i hit "play" 99 times out of 100. only exception being i got in for an hour once and DC'ed with an error 90000 i believe. Error message comes up like this-

AppName: ffxiv.exe AppVer: 1.0.0.0 ModName: ffxiv.exe
ModVer: 1.0.0.0 Offset: 008e0fb6

If i click for more details theres a quite large list that lists out 61 modules and 1 thread along with something i have no idea what it is.
Anyone got a suggestion here?

Well i tested what i said, but still i crashed and now my worst fear came true i also crashed in coil.. So i dont know what im supposed to do now, but i am NOT updating BIOS though its way to risky. I formatted and reinstalled cause i did incase for virus and stuff so now im 100% clean, anyways it might help ill have to play some more, but yesterday i almost got a crash in dungeon but it, was a 5 sec game stop which is a significant improvement, instead of 30 sec freeze + stopped working then after i recover then crash 100% like 5 min later. This time i recovered after 5 secs and no crash later in dungeon. So i hope this is working now. And i never turned on overclock this time after reinstall.

@Time2Nuke that sounds weird :/ i havent got that but i have gotten client crash several times, crash exiting game, crash changing gear in drybone for some reason (happens frequently at that spesific place), and ive also gotten what your saying but not that often very rare actually. Have you tried reinstalling ffxiv arr? i know its not tempting but it might help , but i have no clue. It can be so many things xD graphic card, which widows you have.... well everything basically on this forum suggested i guess :P

EDIT: http://www.zam.com/forum.html?forum=...58665271268600

This is what i found not long ago, hope it helps. It might be that.

EDIT: Now its even worse than before .. for some reason i crash almost every time im going mining unspoiled stuff, i do not crash before i get near a node. Its weird.. These crashes are really annoying now, and the crashes in dungeons still presists. When im outside a dungeon or in a town i never crash. But as soon as i start getting near unspoiled nodes as miner i crash almost every time. I hope the next patch will fix some of this, but from my experience they just make it worse.

I was getting BSOD myself took me a awhile to figure it out but.... I went to device manager, I uninstalled my Processors the intel R core tm i3 all of them.

I then restarted and let them re-install themselves and restarted again and got rid of the bsod.

But now I have a new issue, I have a appcrash 1033 that's been happening to me on FFXIV never happened before and another thing, I never had 1 damn pc issue since I downloaded this game now I have tons. brand new pc and it can handle the game just fine so not sure what is the problem.

Registered just to participate in this thread. Same issues with freezes and crashes, and going through some of the trouble shooting suggested here. Thank you to those that have posted here :)

so no fix yet? i guess i have to wait to be out on ps4 and play with mouse/keyboard there

Well, same for me, randomly crashes and this game beeing still the only one having ever done so thus far .. and no comment on this issue either >_< not for liking this.

Have had 2 random crashes in 2 days. This after the 2.1 patch, never any problems before. Last night my launcher format was screwed up when trying to log back in and it took a restart to fix that. From my application log, probably just generic stuff but thought I would post it anyway:
Version=1
EventType=APPCRASH
EventTime=130321998590017997
ReportType=2
Sig[0].Name=Application Name
Sig[0].Value=ffxiv.exe
Sig[1].Name=Application Version
Sig[1].Value=1.0.0.0
Sig[2].Name=Application Timestamp
Sig[2].Value=52b158ac
Sig[3].Name=Fault Module Name
Sig[3].Value=ffxiv.exe
Sig[4].Name=Fault Module Version
Sig[4].Value=1.0.0.0
Sig[5].Name=Fault Module Timestamp
Sig[5].Value=52b158ac
Sig[6].Name=Exception Code
Sig[6].Value=c0000094
Sig[7].Name=Exception Offset
Sig[7].Value=004cffb2

It used to be that my game would crash/freeze often but now after 2.1 my whole computer freezes and I have to do a hard reset. I have a HD Radeon 6900 series on Win 7 64bit and have tried multiple drivers that have not fixed the problem. My computer is scanned and clean yet it still happens but ONLY with FFXIV, any other games I play I have no problems with. The error I saw had to do with directX and although that is updated as well I still get the same problems.

erm. i'm having a kernel power 41 issue for about a month and it happens randomly while i play ff14 arr. i notice i can play longer when i lower settings and play windowed.. when i play full screen anywhere from 5min to 3hours my pc instantly shuts off and im forced to have to unplug it from the pc then plug it back it before it works and i get no bsod... i've never been more upset with a computer.

I have problems with graphical driver crashing since beta phase 2. It's gotten worse since patch 2.1. While it used to be occasionally, it now happens multiple times daily. While playing the game, at a random moment, the grame freezes, the sounds gets distorted and cracks, the game crashes (window popup telling the game stopped working) and after that I get grahical artifacts in the launcher and can't start the game (crahes right away). When I open a browser, the sites are totally messed up and no other game will start. I have to restart my PC in order to be able to play the game again. My drivers are up to date, upgraded to new version every time a new one was available, I also upgraded my gfx card. Both cards are nVidia, so maybe there's a problem with that.

This is a very ('very!') annoying issue and only happens in FF XIV.

It wasn't so bad before 2.1, but after 2.1 I was starting to lose display once every 30 seconds to 5 min, it makes the game very unplayable. It's no wonder why the game feels baron lately. please fix this.

What's solved it for me:

Overclocking my graphics card. I have a GTX 760 and using the MSI Afterburner software, i'm now running my card using the below settings with the latest drivers (331.93).

http://images.bit-tech.net/content_i...i-760-oc-b.jpg

I've played many hours with the card overclocked and not had a crash since, whereas before it was constant (an error with nvd3dum.dll). From what i've read from people with similar problems in other games, it's the higher voltage in particular which the game requires.

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Originally Posted by Vuhad

What's solved it for me:

Overclocking my graphics card. I have a GTX 760 and using the MSI Afterburner software, i'm now running my card using the below settings with the latest drivers (331.93).

http://images.bit-tech.net/content_i...i-760-oc-b.jpg

I've played many hours with the card overclocked and not had a crash since, whereas before it was constant (an error with nvd3dum.dll). From what i've read from people with similar problems in other games, it's the higher voltage in particular which the game requires.

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This was stated in another thread too. This is definately a voltage issue, so using MSI Afterburner should fix the problem. Even without a OC a voltage adjustment should help.

However, on some card's the Voltage is adjusted automatically by MSI and a OC is the only way to increase the voltage.

I already have an OC version of my GTX 660Ti, don't know if i should start tinkering with voltages :s

Had the same issues (Game crash, pc freeze, pc crash, bluescreen) until I deactivated SLI (Geforce GTX 590).
I have played about 6 hours without a single crash since then, so maybe that will help some of you.

I have been having this problem for the last couple of months now (Radeon HD4850) where it would cause the game to freeze, turn black and reset my graphics card every few minutes. It's extremely annoying paying membership and not being able to play the game for any length of period or progress (can't raid to progress story due to this problem). It was working with no problems up until late October. Please SquareEnix or someone resolve these issues!

i'd like to note for the first post: Note BSOD is prob driiver or hardware not the game.

The latest Driver (amd graphics) started causing the crashing issue for me as well.

I uninstalled all the old drivers & reinstalled the new one & the probliem is now Gone. Except when using Grid Market Bell which is werid.
(As it says your supposed to do everytime with AMD Drivers..... never noticed it said that before but it does now)

Well, due extensive testing for quiet a Long period of time now, i found out that whenever i Change from anisotropic filtering to just bilinear one, the game no longer crashes. Whenever i Switch back, it is just a question of time for the game to Crash again. That said, the System runs everything i throw at him stable, stress-tests, 3DMark, whatever imaginable.

Maybe SE-Team might take a look into this or communicate it towards NVidia? They already Support this game, so one can hope this gets better :-)

Update: I have Chosen to overwrite anisotropic-settings to 16X via NVidia Settings - not a single Crash, but lovely filtering. If it keeps stable, i will update once again ^^

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Well, due extensive testing for quiet a Long period of time now, i found out that whenever i Change from anisotropic filtering to just bilinear one, the game no longer crashes. Whenever i Switch back, it is just a question of time for the game to Crash again. That said, the System runs everything i throw at him stable, stress-tests, 3DMark, whatever imaginable.

Maybe SE-Team might take a look into this or communicate it towards NVidia? They already Support this game, so one can hope this gets better :-)

Update: I have Chosen to overwrite anisotropic-settings to 16X via NVidia Settings - not a single Crash, but lovely filtering. If it keeps stable, i will update once again ^^

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Do u have Anisotropic setting x16 in Nvidia setting and the same in game settings too or just in the NCP only? Thanks , looking forward to hear your results.

16x anisotropic in nvidia Settings only, but it works in game though there it states that it ís just bilinear filtered - however, it really is 16x anisotropic, textures are crisp and no Crash the whole remaining evening - quiet some time now :) seems to work.

guys have you tried using msi afterburner lower clocks -20mhz then ramping up power to 120 percent that seemed to fix a lot of black screen lag and bsod problems

I've been running for a long time without any BSOD or crashes now.

Here's what I did (not sure which worked).

1, reinstall windows 7, followed by GPU drivers, followed by ARR.
2, let windows update 1 set of updates at a time and tested ARR after each update. If BSOD/crash still occurred I would run the next set of updates
3, Stopped using anything I thought might be causing the problems, namely Tune Up Utilities and Daemon Tools
4, Once I stopped getting BSOD/crashes in ARR I stopped windows from updating any further as I noticed I seemed to be getting the BSOD/crash after doing a windows update (office update comes to mind).
5, Add new programs one by one testing ARR for a day or so before moving on to the next program

After not having BSOD/crashes for a long time I wanted to clean inside my PC and GPU, after I had done this I booted up ARR and boom! BSOD within 10 seconds. This happened again and again every time I tried to load the game. I decided to reseat my GPU and run the game again and after doing this a couple of times the BSOD/crashes stopped.

Not saying any of this info will help you but it's what I did and something must have worked because I don't get them any more and I was getting them constantly for weeks on end.

Another point: After I got a BSOD/crash in ARR I started getting them when the game wasn't even running, I would be watching a movie, or browsing the web and my PC would lock up and I would get a buzzing sound coming from the speakers; then it would power down. But after doing countless reinstalls of windows I noticed the BSOD/crashes stopped again until I loaded up ARR, then my computer would do the same BSOD and crashing outside ARR until I did a reinstall.

I hope this helps someone as I was nearly in tears with this bullshit and was very close to buying a new GPU so I know your frustration.

I have the same problem.. my computer is fine.. I have done Memtest for more than 10 hours and Prime95 with no problems at all.. my temps never go above 60 C for both parts.

I have all my drivers up to date and 99% of the time my computer BSOD playing FF XIV. I've had a couple of BSOD in other games but 99% of the time is FF XIV and I just can't understand what is going on.

We need some help please.. anything

@Elysium have you tried lowering your gpu clocks if its factory oc, even if its not factory oc gpu try lowering it by -20mhz

I've had the same issues as everyone else, since ARR was released. Random crashes and occasional BSOD. Here's what I've tried that has done nothing at all:

• Updated graphics drivers
• Tried old nvidia drivers
• updated BIOS
• tried default BIOS settings
• Reformatted my hard drive
• Installed Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8 and Windows Vista (none made a difference)
• Did a memory check, a disk check and a stress test on my GPU
• Both my GPU and CPU temps never go above 45C
• I've tried disabling unneccesary Nvidia services
• Updated my OS completely with Windows Update
• I've tried fullscreen, windowed, windowed borderless, max settings, minimum settings (on graphics)
• I've tried using only onboard sound, I've tried using only Nvidia sound
• I can run any other current-gen game on max settings for hours and have no issues. I'm lucky if I get 30 mins in Final Fantasy: ARR

I've seen several people on here that are adamant that it's not the game causing it, and that a BSOD is hardware, blah blah blah. The blue screens are usually caused by memory errors. Memory errors can ABSOLUTELY be caused by a program, thus causing the BSOD. Somewhere in this game there's poor memory management. The number of people being effected by this is growing daily and there seems to be no fix in sight.

I also tried what Sceros suggested above and that did nothing either.