DirectX crashes at random

I've been having this issue for ages, but more or less have stubbornly powered through it since I could not find any valid fix for it so far. Needless to say now that the new expansion has come out, enough is enough. I'm sick of the game just closing on me at random when I'm in the middle of a dungeon, especially since I'm usually the tank and that results in a wipe.

-=-=-=-=-=-=- System Information -=-=-=-=-=-=-

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There's the system information from the FFXIV launcher.
It's the same errors that other people have been reporting, several DirectX errors at once and a CTD.
My drivers are up to date.
I've been experiencing this issue for a good while.
Yes, switching to DX9 technically fixes the issue, but ShB has dropped support of it and frankly that's an unacceptable 'fix' for me.

Good afternoon and thank you for posting on the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

Can you provide the exact error message you are experiencing? Do you notice any patterns to the crashes? Do they only happen in certain areas or while doing certain actions?

You mentioned you have been experiencing this for a while, when did it first start happening and what have you tried already to resolve the issue?

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I'll try to get a visual example later today.
There are no real patterns to the crashes as far as I can tell, they kind of just happen very suddenly for no reason.
When it first started happening I thought it was a driver issue, completely erased my drivers and installed a fresh one, no change. Maybe it was a corrupted FFXIV file, completely uninstalled, deleted everything, reinstall, no change. Maybe it was my DX11 itself that was bugging out, so I did a fresh reinstall on that as well, no change.

Thank you for posting in the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

Could you try running a cleanboot? Open the task manager and select the 'Start up' Tab. Disable everything here and restart the PC. Where in the game does the crash occur?


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