An observation about my personal 90K issues

Hello there, not sure if anything useful will come from this post, but figure I'll give it a shot, since I don't know what else to do.

So of course, like anyone else, been dealing with the occasional 90K here and there, and it's been much worse lately, most likely due to DDoS and the likes. I get that, and not complaining about a relatively rare occurrence.

My issue is that I get 90'ked every other dungeon now, and most often multiple times per dungeon. I have also noticed that every single time I get 90'ked my network adapter card resets, my PC wifi connection resets, and my system clock is consistently changing itself when I have played FFXIV.

It's to the point where I don't know what to do, and with the new 30 min warnings and 24 hour bans on duty finder, I'm getting screwed over pretty hard by 90k. Spending a lot of time banned from duty finder because I got 90k'ed and it took too long to log back in =(

I have a pretty capable system, well maintained and consistently updated and I doubt that it is an end-user issue causing this problem, but if it is on my end, I lack the knowledge to figure out how to fix it.

No other games I play create this issue, or have any problems with my system time. But when I log into FFXIV, suddenly my Local Time shows anywhere from 3-5 hours variance from my local time, and the date is 2-5 days behind the actual current date.

Once I get the 90K, and my network adapter and wifi reset, then I have to adjust the system time and date back to normal, and I can reopen the FFXIV launcher.

And then this cycle repeats, over and over, until I get banned from duty finder, and then play something else.

Please help me figure this out, it's bad enough that I don't see myself being able to keep playing in this current state.

Thanks!

Oh also, an interesting note, every time I run FFXIV, and every time I get 90K, the system time and date is almost always the same. Nov 27, 2014, and after 5pm pacific. It always changes to that date, and around that time. FFXIV is the only file or game I've used lately that causes any issues with my system time / date.

sounds like faulty timekeeping hardware on the motherboard.

I have to agree with the above person in that I think it sounds like a timing problem with your PC, because a rapid change in date/time could cause the other issues you're experiencing:

For example you said about your network card and WiFi both reset* which could be because when the date/time changes it forces both network adapters to refresh their IP address (by default they'll be getting an IP from your router and they'll refresh that every X hours which would get triggered early if the time is drastically changed).

Normally I wouldn't expect you to actually get disconnected from the network when they refresh the IP as you'd generally get the same internal IP again, but if the game has a problem because your local PC time changed, it might very well also disconnect you as an anti-cheat measure.

Do you know of any sort of software on your computer that is attempting to keep your clock in sync? If so I'm guessing that's where your problem is because I've personally seen it before where sometimes the server they're getting the time from is wrong (just the wrong timezone would explain multiple hours out) and rather than question if the clock is actually meant to change by X hours, it just does it and perhaps that's happening here.

To the best of my knowledge FFXIV doesn't try and change the system clock, and if you're running on Vista or higher (probably?) and haven't disabled the User Account Control, by default the game wouldn't even run be running with administrative privileges so even if it did try to change the time, it would be unable to do so.

*Are you actually using both network card (wired?) and wireless simultaneously as that might be a problem unless they're both connecting to different networks and your computer is acting as a router for whatever reason.