Final Fantasy 14 Has Stopped Working after clicking login button

Hello everyone, been having an issue just recently after trying to install patch 1.19. FFXIV worked fine before this update.

After I installed the patch I kept getting "Error 20524". Then I read about changing the dates in the version files, which got me passed that error.

Then I'd login and get to the character select screen, but no characters would ever load. I heard music and could see the screen but no characters loaded.

To try to fix this, I did a fresh install of the game and allowed it to download all the updates.

NOW, whenever I first get to the game window after logging in and clicking Play, I get the "Final Fantasy XIV has stopped working. Windows is searching for a solution..." error.

I already updated my NVIDIA GTX 460 driver (including uninstall and reinstall) as well as removed my overclock and the issue remains. Not sure why this is happening all of a sudden?? Can anyone advise?

Here's an Event Viewer report:

Faulting application name: ffxivgame.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4e89e287
Faulting module name: ffxivgame.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4e89e287
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00045c34
Faulting process id: 0x1714
Faulting application start time: 0x01cc85ea12854141
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV\ffxivgame.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV\ffxivgame.exe
Report Id: 50e3a234-f1dd-11e0-b5be-00248cde0377

I have Windows 7...can provide other system specs but as I said the game worked just fine until recently and nothing changed except the game update...

Wow...did a second fresh install just for the heck of it and it works now...WTF??? lol.