Game Crashing Intermittently with AMD HD 6700 Series

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Originally Posted by Athelias

If you guys with AMD cards are running the latest beta drivers, 13.8, they cause slowdowns, freezes, and BSODs. At least they did for me. The driver I use that has had no problems in P4 or Early Access so far are drivers 13.6. I have no info for those who aren't running AMD.

Here is a link to the drivers that work perfectly for me: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/AMD...13.6_Beta2.exe

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Exactly as posted I am useing a AMD 5870 and I have 0 issues with the game only time I crashed was when my dog managed to unplug the internet which made me lose connection which crashed the game for me.

Also useing one of the earlier drivers since they are alot more stable and the newest drivers can quite often mess with games for me since they are in beta.

I may of found a solution to this bug. I'll update and post once I've tested it, without a crash for at least an hour of playing in populated areas

EDIT: Didn't want to waste my precious daily posts >_<

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Originally Posted by Satyre

326.80 beta drivers from Nvidia

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I'm running those drivers and still crashing =/

EDIT 2: If you're experiencing this error, can you please post whether or not you've recently updated your Win7 via Windows Update/Automatic Updates?

EDIT 3: Nvm >_< It broke again ;_;

For those with Nvidia cards; I've been having all these issues listed above myself as I have a GTX 660 Ti, which is one of the cards that currently has issues running FFXIV:ARR. Black screens, major FPS dips and client crashes gallore... I've taken a bold step though and downloaded the recently released 326.80 beta drivers from Nvidia and even though the black screens still occur, it does not drop my FPS afterwards. I also haven't had any client crashes yet since I've installed these drivers. But I've only had it installed for a few hours, so I might've just been lucky. But either way, in case you want to risk running a beta driver, you could give driver version 326.80 a shot and see if that fixes some issues.
My guess is that Nvidia is working on a certified WHQL version that does support FFXIV:ARR, but I highly doubt we'll see it released within the early access period. And if not, I really hope SE fixes their client to properly work with the affected Nvidia and AMD cards soon.

I looked into Exception code: 0xc0000005 and apparently that can be from an application attempting to load from memory where it shouldn't be or something, or bad RAM. So I ran memtest and it passed everything for me, so I guess it isn't that.

Here are my specs:

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K @3.40GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6700 1024 MB
RAM: 8GB DDR3 @ 680MHz
Motherboard: ASUS P8z77-V LX
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

No problems at all during Phase 3, and no FPS issues with Phase 4. I just CTD constantly.

EDIT: I have tried so many different driver versions with the same results. Again, I also just today reformatted my computer and reinstalled Windows 7 AND FFXIV. Same issues.