DX11 Crashing?

i have the 980 and have only experianced one crash since start of EA

I also have a GTX 970 and have been crashing in DX11. I was excited to try it out in DX11 as soon as early access was available, but within several hours of playing, my screen went totally black but the sound continued - nothing could recover my display, no matter what I tried - I couldn't alt/tab to another window, I couldn't ctrl/alt/del to bring up the task manager to close FFXIV, nothing was responsive. Ultimately I had to do a hard shutdown to fix it. After that I tried launching in DX11 again, but this time after a shorter window of time, the program errored out and closed on its own (at least it didn't lock my whole system this time).

I was running it on the most current drivers at the time - so I think that was 353.06 (a new driver has since come out which I just applied this morning but have not tried playing with yet - 353.30). I’m on Windows 8.1.

Dropping the client back down to DX9 has resulted in a stable experience again, so I'm pretty sure it's not my hardware (i.e., I'm pretty sure it's a driver issue).

Would sure be nice if there was a fix for this though :-( I want to enjoy the graphics at the highest level that my machine is capable of presenting - having just built my machine a few months ago, it should be no problem for the hardware to handle the requirements, but when the drivers won't play nice, well...

Using GTX 960 and I have experienced two crashes so far. The game would just suddenly freeze and only a hard reset will work.

I'm using Windows 10 and a beta driver so that might have been the cause.

I have an EVGA Nvidia 960 and when running DirectX 11 and closing the game, it never closes properly, stays in a black screen and I have to go to the task manager to force close the game. I get the "The program stopped working" notice.
Drivers are all updated, and I have no problems while I play, but I've been only able to close the game properly once. I'm on Windows 7 btw.

I wonder if it's really an Nvidia graphic cards thing, or something with the client itself.

Just to add, same here on both desktop ( 2x - GTX 760 FTW) and my laptop (GTX 980m). Since using DX11, I'll crash randomly and/or while in dungeons.......

I haven't had any crashes mid-game yet. That thing where the game "has stopped working" when I quit though, it's been doing that to me since well before the DX11 client hit.

I've only crashed a couple times when taking random screenshots.

It's not just Nvidia, i have an AMD 290x and just when i exit the game it goes to a black screen, but only in this time, not when i'm playing.

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Originally Posted by alibutterfly

but within several hours of playing, my screen went totally black but the sound continued - nothing could recover my display, no matter what I tried - I couldn't alt/tab to another window, I couldn't ctrl/alt/del to bring up the task manager to close FFXIV, nothing was responsive.

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This is similar to what I have had happen. This has happened twice that I can remember, but I was always able to get out of the game. I have the most up to date drivers as of last night, although somebody mentioned new ones came out today.

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Originally Posted by Sunako_Nakahara

driver version you are running. And do you have chrome running at the same time if so turn off hardware acceleration in chrome settings.

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I will give this a try as well. I do usually have Chrome Open

I just switched back to DX9 because I always get that black screen when exiting DX11 client. The updated graphics ain't worth that bs.