Game Crashes

The first time I start up the game on my computer, the game crashes. I can be running other games fine all day with no problems, then when I start up Final Fantasy XIV for the first time that day, it crashes after a few minutes.

What's going on? O.o

EDIT: Uninstalled Dell Datasafe from my computer, and it's currently not messing up. I hope it stays that way. >.>

You would probably need to be more specific and tell us the spec of the PC and the settings within FFXIV config.
It is well known that FFXIV is very resource heavy and is known to humble PCs that can otherwise handle everything that is thrown at them.

The more info we have the easier it will be to diagnose :)

AMD Phenom II X6 1045 processor running at 2.7 GHz
EVGA GeForce GTS 450 overclocked to 950 MHz
6 GB Dual Channel RAM
1680x1050 resolution

Everything but multisampling maxed out, Depth of Field and Ambient Occlusion off (After editing the post, I lowered the draw distance down a notch in an attempt to improve my framerate.)

that seems about ok, what is the exact error message you are getting? or is it just crashing to desktop?

It's just saying, "Unable to detect DirectX device." =/

I'm beginning to think it was the Dell Datasafe doing something. >.>

ok sounds obvious but have u tried updating directX?
Also i had something similar when the game 1st came out and setting up the GFs PC, I had to install the latest .net framework and all her troubles went away over night.

Would nVidia include the latest version in their patches?

Possibly for directX, but it cant hurt to go straight to the horses mouth.
As far as .net framework goes, afaik the drivers dont bundle that. (could be wrong)

What's the link to the DirectX site? (Sorry, just paranoid about my precious gaming computer. :D)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/179113

there you go, a nice friendly microsoft link :)

heres the .net framework link too if that dont work for you.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en...ng=en&id=17851

Thanks, AshToreth!

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EDIT: Uninstalled Dell Datasafe from my computer, and it's currently not messing up. I hope it stays that way. >.>

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gotta love dell lol :P

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Thanks, AshToreth!

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No probs, didnt really help, but its worth being up to date at any case :)

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Originally Posted by AshToreth

gotta love dell lol :P

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Yep.

And the latest version is from June 2010? I might have the latest release, then. I bought this computer in October 2010, and the video card a few months ago. :D

Having thought on it, does dell datasafe bring up any kind of pop-up and do u run fullscreen? because you could get that message from anything that pops you out of fullscreen mode. The same way Alt+Tab does.

Btw... Nvidia driver 285.62 came out on Oct 24th 2011 so u could check that if you feel inclined, i use it for FFXIV and i use the same GFX card and can vouch its ok :)

I updated everything last week, and have the latest beta driver from EVGA.

Also, no, I don't run Fullscreen mode, and I haven't seen any popups.

ok, sounds like you are good to go :) have fun not crashing lol :)

Believe me, I will. :D

Crashed... again. >.< Same exact way, too.