BSOL - black screen of load

lots of people having it lately (after 2.2 when it appeared) , it occurs when trying to enter a dungeon, from 2 games of braylfox hm today , three different friends got it :(

is this planned to be addressed ?

was also happening to me occasionally just porting from one place to another.. also had it happen going into a cutscene.

I tend to get it when it tries to load the cutscene after killing the Gobmachine

just now got my BSOL after finishing the last boss in brayfox :)

I never got it, but my loading times did go up though :(

First time I've heard of it. Is it random, or is there a set of circumstances that cause it?

Yep, this has been happening a lot since 2.2. Just randomly occurs upon zoning in to somewhere, or upon certain cutscenes (I've had it happen following a Brayflox HM and Garuda storymode win so far)

From what I have heard, it is a recognized issue.

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Originally Posted by Fynlar

From what I have heard, it is a recognized issue.

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I count myself lucky then; I haven't ran into the issue yet (nor even heard of it until now, for that matter).

this has happened a lot to me a lot on the ps3 but it was rarer on the ps4 but it is still a pain D: i hope it dose get fixed :D

I've seen it a couple times on PS3, and have had it happen to other FC buddies as well.

Got it twice yesterday.. thank the 12 not after a boss fight/during loot.

This has happened to me a few times, most recently while using Return to get back to Gridania last night. Just loads and loads and loads... I can still chat with FC and such, but I'm stuck and have to reset the game.

Thankfully, has not happened to me during an instance. Yet.

Aside Mor Dhona, my load times are normal (1-3 seconds) and Cutscene wise is still near instant.

I've had a LOT of situations where people just mysteriously AFK for no given reason in brayflox HM, usually after failing the boss 1-2 times. At first I was thinking it must be them just rage quitting. But they just AFK with no word at all. And you wait 5-8 minutes and boot them and move on. I'm wondering if its this situation you speak of. Because if it is, it must be very wide spread cause I see someone afk with no word every day. Probably cause I'm grinding for tomes and such. There's been times sometimes they d/c and come back. But I don't ask, and they don't always say what happened.

I haven't seen this on the PC yet, but I did have it happen to me once on the PS4 last weekend.

I've been kicked out of the game with 90k errors three times since the patch, which is a 300% increase in 90k errors compared to pre-2.2. I'd hate to see what it's like for people who were getting occasional 90k's before this patch...

it happens alot more frequently on ps3 than ps4 as far as i can tell, but maybe its just that the beta was too short to get as many as i did on ps3 :D

This happens to me a lot on the PS3 (never happened on the PS4). My solution is just to quit to XMB and rejoin after saying I've got the infinite load screen in chat and I'll brb in 2 mins.

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This has happened to me a few times, most recently while using Return to get back to Gridania last night. Just loads and loads and loads... I can still chat with FC and such, but I'm stuck and have to reset the game.

Thankfully, has not happened to me during an instance. Yet.

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This happens to me at least once a day. Either Return or Teleport, usually in or out of Mor Dhona. This is on PS3.

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This happens to me at least once a day. Either Return or Teleport, usually in or out of Mor Dhona. This is on PS3.

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This happens to me in Mor Dhona on the PC, so it's just the game itself, especially after the update (when more people started playing again.)

Yep, happening to me and many others in my FC. Porting, opening cut scenes in dungeons, things like that never load but the player can still chat with everyone. They have to log out and back in. It's random when it happens.

Ugh, happened to me three times last night porting around collecting botany mats. The little loading wheel is a lieeee.

Haven't had this issue yet but had a weird bug where no ability effects were displaying then a couple pulls later I first out crash to desktop. Only happened once though

PS3 limitations™

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it happened on ps4 beta as well lol , it wasnt before 2.2

Just kinda curious, if this could be linked to the AFK situation I'm seeing, that I mentioned earlier? Have any of you had it happen in dungeons, and you shutdown, and relog, and people say hey dude you just looked AFK and didnt say anything?

I have had it happen quite a bit since 2.2 . Really annoying when u have to reset everything. It has happened multiple times in brayflox HM, either at the beginning of dungeon or after the last boss. Happens to many others too. Also every time I tele to Mor Dhona it is a crapshoot as to if it will actually load or not. Once it happened right as a duty popped, then I was really pissed. Please fix!

It's happened to me and a friend of mine, seems to be centric to the console versions. I and couple others have already submitted bug reports and are listed in the Accepted Bugs forum, meaning they are investigating it and likely looking for a fix.

I have noticed that my load times have greatly increased recently. I'm half expecting the old bug from beta where you would get the black screen save that your UI was visible. (I'm on PC.)

Please if you have experience this problem in any of the Play Station versions, post it in the following Thread:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...43#post2017443

thank you.

Heh, loading screens seem to bring no end of grief. As a PS3 player, we now have two loading screen problems to worry about: the "Kick to XMB" glitch from Beta (thankfully it's less common now), and this, although it affects everyone. That said, I haven't noticed any significant change in loading times outside of when I first start up the game, which I just chalk up to being in a city or one of the housing districts.

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Just kinda curious, if this could be linked to the AFK situation I'm seeing, that I mentioned earlier? Have any of you had it happen in dungeons, and you shutdown, and relog, and people say hey dude you just looked AFK and didnt say anything?

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I believe you're experiencing something different. The BSOL only occurs when there is either; a transition into a cutscene, the cutscene doesn't even load for you to get a chance to skip it just stays black or when you come across a loading screen transition be it a teleport or entering an instance or even exiting a instance or simply zoning. Never had this happen to me on my lol 15 FPS PC but during the PS4 beta it finally started happening after seeing my PS3 friends get slapped with it pretty much at least once a day since patch 2.2.

Could it be the resolution?

So a zone event could be similar to say, returning? I wonder if people are materializing where they are suppose to but on their screen its just this loading screen. It seems people are generally still able to interact with chat. Has anyone experienced this + not been able to chat? I'm sure these are separate issues like you said. If so idk what is going on. When we were having all those lag issues, it was easy to dismiss it as people lagging out bad, or what not. But now that its more clear, i still see this frequently. Its just unusual, I can't believe I'm just unlucky enough to get a bunch of trolls that sit there, after getting to final boss. Maybe after clearing second boss, but not after getting to the end. Sorry to derail, I hope they fix you guys up soon.

yeah, I've gotten this several times myself, generally when porting places, but occasionally at the end or beginning of dungeons.

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Yeah, not a PS3 thing dude. Happens to PC and PS4.

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It happened to me a lot after launch of 2.2, and happened to friends too (PS3/PC). Especially after & before primal fights and end of dungeons. Now its mainly rubberband lags only in dungeons which I'm hoping it gets resolved with maintenance.

I got it leaving brayflox.

It actually happened to be a few times before 2.2, so I don't think it's a 2.2 issue.

It started with 2.2 for me (PS3). During the three days of PS4 beta, i had it only once, returning to PS3, I have it again numerous times per day. in 10 times porting, doesn't matter if it is porting to an open world zone or into a dungeon (very nice for DD's after the waiting time), I get the endless blackscreen at least once. There have been several maintainances since 2.2 but so far it wasn't fixed.

it's not an issue with 2.2. or at least any changes in 2.2 aren't the MAIN contributor to the issue.


it has randomly happened ever since launch. nothing new. also it may be more commonly known as a LSOD. Load Screen of Death.

i doubt it will be fixed anytime soon. if it was even remotely easily fixed... then it would have been fixed by now. or SE would have made it as a part of current known issues somewhere. the fact is though... this is one of those issues developers and/or publishers will never admit to.