Occlusion culling causing bluescreens?

Ever since I started playing ffxiv I've had very random reoccurring bluescreens that could come right away or after hours of gameplay. I have systematically tested all the settings one by one disabling and re-enabling them to find the culprit because I know its not my PC. After weeks of testing I disabled occlusion culling last week and haven't had a single bluescreen since. The bluescreen was always Driver IRQ not less or equal.

Here's any information that may help:
GPU: Gigabyte 7970 GHZ edition (stock overclock)
Catalyst: 13.9
(I started playing with catalyst 13.4 and have had this problem ever since with every new catalyst)

I think its interesting to note that the bluescreens seem to happen a lot more frequently when I increase the overclock manually from the stock overclock on my video card and occlusion culling is enabled. There's nothing wrong with the video card. It has run for hours at 1200mhz core on furmark and the stock overclock is only 1100mhz. No other games have any problems even at 1200core. I don't get bluescreens on ffxiv unless culling is enabled, period.

Obviously though, this is only my input on this possible issue... I have a bit of performance loss by disabling culling but its better than bluescreens.

I don't know if ffxiv is using its own modified culling code or if its a problem concerning compatibility with something on my computer or even the catalyst. Just trying to draw attention to this as a possible issue. If anyone is having random reoccurring bluescreens you'd do well to post here with your specs and try disabling culling and see if it stops.

I had a problem with bluescreens. Switching from a DS3 controller to a logitech controller for some reason 'cured' the issue. :\

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I think its interesting to note that the bluescreens seem to happen a lot more frequently when I increase the overclock manually from the stock overclock on my video card and occlusion culling is enabled. There's nothing wrong with the video card.a

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Continuing to believe this will not fix the issue, It's a head in the sand mindset.
If the card was working properly this error would not be occuring.

Crashes of the nature of IRQ not Less or Equal that occur in a display driver are almost always hardware defect in nature.

The occlusion culling setting effectively reduces workload of the cpu by masking visual data that is not currently in the direct line of sight, this in effect allows the video card to obtain more relevant information to render and this increases GPU load and/as well as Frame rate., this as such, it could only possibly be A) a driver issue, or B) a hardware issue. And as there are no other reports of this nature it is most likely B)

Greetings,

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