Game stuck while starting - screen stuck at black

Initially, after the patch, I was able to log in and play with no problem. Occasionally, when I needed to relog or restart the game I was greeted while starting the game with a never-ending black screen and the game wouldn't even load the Square Enix logo. At first, I was able to fix this by restarting my pc, but that has stopped working. I've tried resetting my settings in the launcher, updating my video card, turning off the DirectX 11 setting, running the game as admin, and restarting my pc but the game fails to load beyond a black screen. I am running on two monitors.

Any information would be helpful.


System information below:

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FFXIVLauncher
Technical Support - Post New Thread - Google Chrome
RzStats : Razer Synapse Statistics Manager
NVIDIA GeForce Overlay
Discord


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DragonBonesPro
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Google Chrome
NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Driver
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Razer Chroma SDK Core Components
Razer Surround
Steam
Tablet Driver V8.0
Unity
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Tools for .Net 3.5
Minecraft
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FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn
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Bethesda.net Launcher
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vs_communitymsires
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Java Auto Updater
vs_communitymsi
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Google Update Helper
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Microsoft VC++ redistributables repacked.
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Realtek High Definition Audio Driver
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe 00004640
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA GeForce Experience\NVIDIA Share.exe 000038AC
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\NvContainer\nvcontainer.exe 0000190C
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\NvNode\NVIDIA Web Helper.exe 00002880
C:\Program Files (x86)\Razer\Razer_Kraken0510_Driver\Drivers\SysAudio\Kraken0510Helper.exe 0000387C
C:\Program Files (x86)\Razer\Synapse\RzSynapse.exe 00003A18
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe 00003260
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\bin\cef\cef.win7\steamwebhelper.exe 00003ABC
C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA\RtkNGUI64.exe 000030B8
C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCuiL.exe 00003004
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c:\windows\system32\sihost.exe 00001940
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c:\windows\system32\taskhostw.exe 00001A34

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I changed the BootVersionCheckMode in the FFVIX_BOOT.cfg from 0 to 1 and the game started effortlessly. I will update if anything reappears or changes.

Hello Chibishedevil, Thank you for your update!

I will be moving this this thread to "closed concerns" If you have any other issues please do not hesitate to create a new thread.

Thank you for playing Final Fantasy XIV! Hope to see you online.