"Display driver stopped responding and has recovered"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2665946

I had the same problem once:
If it occurs only once, dont panic. Errors happen.

If it occurs many times, your graphics card may be damaged.
In my case, the memory inside was damaged and my retailer sent me a replacement, since then it never occured again (I had a GTX 470)

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

FFXIV 1.0 is not your average high stress game. It takes WAY more resources than it should for the graphics it puts out. Have you actually checked your graphics card temperature while playing? "stop responding and has recovered" should almost never happen unless your card is overheating.

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It actually happen a lot with GTX680 and XIV thanks to crappy drivers. This has nothing to do with overheating. There is a thread about it on Nvidia forums.

And I can confirm this as a GTX680 owner.

Even if it is true that XIV generates a lot of heat, the 680 is way more efficient than its predecessor (I used to have a 580 before), and the fan doesn't even need to go above 50% while XIV is running (which keeps you a lot of margin before having your card to overheat, as the fan speed will be automatically increased as the temperature rise.)

It's easy to tell if overheating is the cause of an issue, just listen to the fan, at max speed, when using the default cooler of 580/680, it sounds like an airplane... Impossible not to notice. As long as the fan isn't at 100% it means that the temperature is below an acceptable threshold.

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To the OP, does it happen most of the time when you are in Ul'dah? If yes don't even look further, there is no way to fix this issue. Just wait for ARR.

(I also tried tons of different drivers, it happened with all of them, no exception, however I cannot tell for sure if it would happen less often with certain drivers.)

i've had near zero display driver issues with the 304.79beta drivers, as always remember to do a custom install and check the Clean install option.

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Originally Posted by sharazisspecial

Black screen then "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" which will cause ffxiv to crash because of the loss of display driver.(like alt-tabbing out of fullscreen does or turning off my hdtv does)

It happens alot during ffxiv play time. I expect to get it 10+ times a day. I have tried clean install, reinstall graphic drivers, underclock nothing works.

I notice that i will very often get it during browsing my retainer . Though it does happen during other times. I dont think i have had during battle thank god.

Is it cos of ffxiv? is my new gtx 680 the problem? I didnt get it when i played gw2 . FFXIV is going to explode soon so it less of concern for me but i wanted to know is this a common problem with ffxiv?

I do dual box using sandboxie .Though it has happened very often when i havent dual boxed.

It is a new pc so im a bit disappointed by this.

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This happens alot with the nvidia 600 series cards and this game. Its not due to overheating though, its a driver issue. The card you are using is more than enough to handle this game but due to lack of support in the form of drivers some of the features will cause it to crash. Turn off ambient occlusion and have msaa to at least 4x. Crashing occurs when the card throttles down from high to low load.

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and the fan doesn't even need to go above 50% while XIV is running (which keeps you a lot of margin before having your card to overheat, as the fan speed will be automatically increased as the temperature rise.)

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Unless the noise REALLY bothers you, you should always have the fan maxed anyway. I've never had a video card whose fan died before the card did.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Unless the noise REALLY bothers you, you should always have the fan maxed anyway. I've never had a video card whose fan died before the card did.

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Well any high-end Nvidia reference card since Fermi has a loud as sh** fan. I play with headphones, usually my volume is really high, yet the fan at 100% on these card is unbearable. ~30% is barely audible (usually CPU/case fan are more loud). 40~50% you can start to hear it, but it's very small (impossible to notice with headphones). Around 60% it starts to get noisy. Anything above 80% is a jet during take off...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHCpNvSb5dU

(I know videos aren't the best to realize how noisy it is, but can give a rough idea, and it only goes to 85% here which is the max allowed by the eVGA tool.)

I play with a headset and can't really hear the fan while playing, even at full blast speed.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Most likely your video card is overheating. You need to stop playing the game before you damage it, and adjust your graphics settings in control panel- Turn up the fan speed to maximum.

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I had this issue once upon a time, and it defiantly is from overheating.
Buy yourself a can of air and blow your card out once a week and you will never see the error again.

it aint the driver it the game there something telling the window to do something, then that something does not exits so it crashes.