GTX680 And Losing DirectX Device

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Originally Posted by Tofutofu

I turned off DoF, and it seems to help.
I can stay in Uldah longer, but still crashes.

The game becomes too stressful when using AO, how did you guys manage to use AO?

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Depends on your GPU Power. Used to run two GTX470's in SLI with it on, and then a GTX580. Now I have two GTX680's and I know it can handle it, but the drivers just aren't optimized for the game.
I haven't had a crash since turning off AO and DoF. I still get the random what the hell crash related to the server, but not my game losing communication with my GPU.

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Originally Posted by Vili

Depends on your GPU Power. Used to run two GTX470's in SLI with it on, and then a GTX580. Now I have two GTX680's and I know it can handle it, but the drivers just aren't optimized for the game.
I haven't had a crash since turning off AO and DoF. I still get the random what the hell crash related to the server, but not my game losing communication with my GPU.

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Yes. That. Video was with one gtx 680.

You people have tried setting the games frame rate to 30 right?

This is GTX 400-series trying to run FFXI all over again!

If anyone remembered there was a huge issue back in the day when the GTX 400-series cards (Fermi) came out and they ran FFXI like crap where only a few ppl on screen would drop the FPS down to 4~7.

I created a topic on Nvidias forum and it took them almost a whole year before working drivers was released. During the process I was even helping them out in testing some alpha drivers for them. The topic was one of the biggest at their forums. Sadly they deleted it and all the posts in it so you can't look back at how poorly (and slow) they handled the situation. But they did solve it at least...

I'm just having a bad case of déjà vu atm with these new GTX 600-series (kepler) cards trying to run FFXIV.

I hope this will be solved at the very least when 2.0 is out. Preferably sooner of course but I'm not going to hold my breath any more.

It's been said 2.0 will run in an entire new engine, and it's really not that far into the future 2.0 will be released. I do not see nvidia putting the time and effort into fixing FFXIV problems when in 6 months FFXIV as we know it won't exist.

Currently running with 300.83 (the drivers that came with the packaged disc). Seems a bit more stable, I don't get that directx error as often now.

I Had the same problem as well, Just confirming that the 300.83 Drivers work flawlessly without any problems from my end, the newer drivers aren't stable.

i have the sameproblem on Asus GTX 690

used drivers: 301.33 and 301.34
both gived me the directx error. after setting of the AM and DOF i dint crash for 3hours in uldah (had to log off)
when AM off and DOF on i crashed after 1hour in uldah.

for people who are using 301.34 you cant shutdown normaly your pc. it's a known bug and they are working on it. with 301.33 you can normaly shutdown your computer.

POSSIBLE FIX:

DISABLE HARDWARE ACCELERATION FOR MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT

This worked for me, apparently all the ingame menus are silverlight based. Added bonus: the menus seem snappier.

I was crashing every 5 minutes in uldah, every 10-20 minutes in other places. Now im not crashing at all, i even turned general draw quality up to 9 (dof+ao off, will test later with them on) and game not crashing. I just sat in the middle of a bunch of ppl in uldah and crafted stuff for 15 minutes and my card didnt even hit 60% usage, clocks seems much steadier. Im pretty sure silverlight and the game engine fight for control of the graphics device and eventually silverlight takes over and makes the game crash.

This would also explain why Nvidia cannot reproduce the issue. Either they are using older silverlight, have hw accel off, or dont have silverlight installed at all.

^ da fuq?

Since when do games utilize silverlight? That's the first time I've ever heard such things. and its weird.

Unfortunately, these issues are things you must anticipate to encounter when using a newer generation video card. For this reason, I always wait a while before migrating to the newest card/architecture so by the time I upgrade, all these bugs are ironed out and games and drivers can catch up to be optimized for the card.

You can have a 500-1000$ graphics card, but what good does it do to have it or spend money on it, if your game isnt optimized for it, or you cant play it with full fps? Or driver support sucks..