Fatal Error, Directx 11 is greyed out since Tuesday

I've been running this game flawlessly since 2.0, switching to directx 11 when it was needed and staying there. HOWEVER since Tuesday directx 11 is greyed out and its set to directx 9 which crashes the game. I was able to activate it once last night and played until I logged off, which was a BIG MISTAKE (should have stayed logged in, like I normally do). Now Im back to 11 being greyed out and cant get it working. What is going on????

960 nvidea, other information below



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FFXIVLauncher
Directx 11 unavailable - Google Chrome
GeForce Experience
NVIDIA GeForce Overlay


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C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe 00001DE0
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA GeForce Experience\NVIDIA GeForce Experience.exe 00002270
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA GeForce Experience\NVIDIA Share.exe 00001734
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\NvContainer\nvcontainer.exe 0000123C
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\NvNode\NVIDIA Web Helper.exe 00000898
C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE 000009D8
C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe 00000984
C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe 00000D7C
C:\Windows\system32\taskhost.exe 000008D0
C:\Windows\system32\wuauclt.exe 0000234C
E:\Program Files (x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\boot\ffxivlauncher.exe 000020B4
E:\Program Files (x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\boot\ffxivsysinfo64.exe 000020AC
E:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe 00000CA0
E:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\bin\cef\cef.win7\steamwebhelper.exe 00001864

Apparently, this is an issue with the most recent Nvidia drivers. I, too, had a similar problem when I played Mass Effect 1 recently. Restarting my PC seemed to correct it. If this persists, I recommend rolling back your driver update until Nvidia fixes it

Hello Thaeros Thank you for posting on the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums

I agree with the poster above. Please do a clean boot on your PC. If this does not help I would recommend rolling back your driver update.

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

Hello everyone,

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