GeForce 280.26 driver causing FFXIV to crash

Hopefully this info will save people some trouble.

Installed the recently released GeForce 280.26 WHQL driver then noticed it bumped my GPU avg temp while playing FFXIV 10 degrees (from 62-65C to 75C). It also causes very frequent crashes (even blue screens) about 15 to 30 mins of gameplay.

My fix:
Rolled back to driver 275.33 WHQL, GPU temp went down and it works fine now. This is obviously an nvidia issue but has anyone come across this issue ?

My setup:
OS: Win 7 x64
GPU: EVGA GTX 460
CPU: Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz
FFXIV settings: 1920x1200 windowed, 2xMSAA, Drawing quality all at highest.

Yeah, i had it often earlier, though this fix didnt work for me, i had to add more memory, after that it hasnt happened again :) (I got 24 giga ram atm, havent had lag in ages :P)

everything fine here with GTX460 SLI and 280.26 drivers.
temps are also fine aswell.

Same. Have had new drivers for an old a$$ 9600 GT with no issues in temp or crashes. I have 12 GBs of RAM if that really is the issue.

470 with 280.26 with no issues.

2x 460 driver wouldnt even let me open the launcher. system restored to before update works now

No issues I've noticed but i've not been on that much. Gtx 570 oc
But yeah prob just bad drivers for that card, I'd try a 2nd install and test a few games though if you want to see, or just wait on another update really though.

An 8Gig of ram cos everyone else wants to talk about it lol.
(though i think the 1st guy just wanted to try an show off :eek: )

On an ASUS GTX 460 here, and I saw a about a 5fps improvement all around with the new drivers, plus a temp drop. Gotta say, I love 'em.

Final Fantasy XIV has been crashing a lot for me ever since I installed the GeForce 280.26 driver update. Most of the time a message appears after the crash saying "unable to detect DirectX device" or something similar. Once, Final Fantasy XIV crashed for no apparent reason. I recently rolled back to the previous driver version and, so far, I have not experienced a crash, though I haven't played long enough to know if this fixed the problem for sure. If I experience another crash, I'll let you know.

In case if this is important, here are my system statistics:

Operating System: Windows Vista
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
Memory (RAM): 2.00 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
Gaming Graphics: 1791 MB Total available graphics memory

With the above statistics I can run Final Fantasy XIV quite (spelling?) well with everything set to standard. FPS is nearly perfect outside of cities, but I experience quite a few skips in cities. Nothing that renders the game unplayable for me though.

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Originally Posted by Baldur

Final Fantasy XIV has been crashing a lot for me ever since I installed the GeForce 280.26 driver update. Most of the time a message appears after the crash saying "unable to detect DirectX device" or something similar.
Operating System: Windows Vista
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
Memory (RAM): 2.00 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
Gaming Graphics: 1791 MB Total available graphics memory

With the above statistics I can run Final Fantasy XIV quite (spelling?) well with everything set to standard. FPS is nearly perfect outside of cities, but I experience quite a few skips in cities. Nothing that renders the game unplayable for me though.

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The issue you had with the Direct X 11 ...did you get the update for your GPU from Nvidia or Microsoft? I had the SAME issue when I did them, yes I knew better but did it anyway, with Microsoft. The new ones you guys are having issues with I got from Nvidia themselves and no issue at all. Could be a bad driver install as most have said or could be the provider of those drivers as well. Just my 2 cents since Baldur reminded me. And mine happened just playing on Civ V which is NO where NEAR FFXIV as far as GPU intensive. :)

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Originally Posted by Geesus

The issue you had with the Direct X 11 ...did you get the update for your GPU from Nvidia or Microsoft?

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I believe I got mine from NVIDIA. The NVIDIA Settings icon in the notifications toolbar displayed a message telling me that a new driver update is available. I opened the program, opened the Help tab, clicked on Updates and went from there. I can't tell you any further details because, after the rollback, the program won't open the Updates window anymore...

Ok. I wish I knew what to say but I got nothing. :( Now for my card they worked but I'm pretty sure not tooo much was really done as well, my cards getting old. :-/ As for yours, did you try to contact Nvid to say hey wth?

Glad either way you knew how to get back in game but I wonder if anything nice may have been updated for your card? ;)

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Originally Posted by Geesus

Ok. I wish I knew what to say but I got nothing. :( Now for my card they worked but I'm pretty sure not tooo much was really done as well, my cards getting old. :-/ As for yours, did you try to contact Nvid to say hey wth?

Glad either way you knew how to get back in game but I wonder if anything nice may have been updated for your card? ;)

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I didn't really notice a difference in performance after I installed the update, so I don't feel that I experienced any loss. Eventually I may download the update from the NVIDIA website and see if that makes a difference. I hope so, because I don't want to keep my card outdated forever, and I don't want to be forced to wait until the PS3 version releases for me to play Final Fantasy XIV without worry of crashes.

Edit: And no, I didn't contact NVIDIA. If I reinstall the update and I experience the same problems I had before the rollback, I might.

Oh man.... having "outdated" forever is almost funny. After we bought these cards they were outdated 3-6 months later LOL! No I know what you mean and honestly, My card hadn't been updated in well at least a year so I don't "think" it will really matter but definitely give them a shout if the second try fails. :cool:

Well, it seems official, driver update 280.26 is the problem.

I decided to reinstall the update and play Final Fantasy XIV to test it. I have noticed a small FPS increase, but the fan attached to my graphics card increased in speed just a few minutes after loggin (spelling?). I didn't play the game long enough to allow it to crash (because I didn't want to), and rollback again to the previous driver version. Afterwords my graphics card was able to breath a lot easier at the small cost of FPS. I played for a few hours with a party, doing levequests in multiple areas, and not a single crash was experienced. Final Fantasy XIV is back to being stable for me! :-D.

Thank you Maxwell! Without you I probably would have never thought of a rollback to a previous driver version, and I wouldn't be playing Final Fantasy XIV again (at most until the PS3 version is released).

Edit: Improved grammar.

gtx 590 with new driver....less work on VGA and minor temperature..no issue.