Strange crashes. Anyone else?

Played all day yesterday, and days before. No problem.

Today, crashed at 1:30 with a popup box. Then again after a few minutes with no box. Just Client gone. Standing around in Limsa.

Now played MSQ Roulette for an hour and did some gear upgrades. All no problems. Then at exactly 16:30 local time client disappeared. I was opening inventory. But I'd done that a bunch of times before in the past few minutes too. Logged back in no problem.

Times seem odd like they are on some exact time. Win10 with all updates. Just updated my graphics driver a few hours ago after the first two crashes. RTX 2060

Anybody else seen strange crashes?

Nope, no issues here.

My crashes happen when I have the LoL launcher running in the background. It's not even a crash - The game literally closes within 0.3 seconds smoothly, no error mesage, no Windows error sound, nothing written into logs, no harddisk access, RAM immediately available. The crash is so smooth it's actually better and more swift than shutting down the game via the menu.
I figured out later the LoL client has changed to be running on the GPU and since I close it and/or reboot, all is fine. Could imagine some other GPU-related task might cause problems (e.g. hardware-accelerated Flash/HTML5 players like Youtube's) or software aging that causes them.


On a freshly rebooted system, I never had any of these random crashes.

Yep. Nope. Don't play League of Legends. No other GPU related software has run since the system was rebooted. And like I said, I had just played in Praetorium for an hour or more before the crash. I'll keep watching. Thanks for the input.

If you mean Direct X crashes, they are ubiquitous... a lot of players, myself included, have been getting them. You can try these steps, as they may (or may not) help.

Yesterday in the morning, I was suffering from severe lag, whether I was hunting or doing instances. It was bad, so I quit for the day. Today everything was good to go.

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If you mean Direct X crashes, they are ubiquitous... a lot of players, myself included, have been getting them. You can try these steps, as they may (or may not) help.

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Wheew. Every time I see that kind of list I imagine a truck to fetch a large pile of rocks. Nope. Not going there. My system is very stable, not flakey. Latest Windows 10, Latest Nvidia drivers, yada yada.

But I did notice something else. Recently I purchased and installed Witcher III - Yeah. I know. Right? And it comes with a "Launcher" called the GoG or something. Anyway. I very carefully went to GoG's settings and unchecked "Start with Windows" or some such. However, it appears to have ignored that and GoG was running at the times that I had the crashes. And it's not running today, because it does not "ReStart" itself once you say "Exit GoG". At least that, right?

So. I'm wondering if these game launchers have it in for each other. I would not expect the game "Launchers" to actually use DirectX11, but maybe they do.
I would not normally expect that these launchers are "Jealous" in some way and are saying to themselves - "You are playing way to much of that other game, and not me, so I'll randomly clobber that nice game you've been playing...." anyway. That's the conspiratist [or is that Conspiratorialist?] in me I guess. But what with all the other "Real" conspiracies going around: Why not?

But after shutting that GoG thing down, I have played all day hard - gathering Moogle Tomes - and no FFXIV client crashes. So that's a data point. And it lines up with a previous comment that a LoL [League of Legends I presume] Launcher was causing problems for someone.

Say. Do these Launchers look for programs that are "adding features" [not using the Exp banned word here] games, and deciding that other games are baddies and clobbering them? Naw. That's second order conspiracy theory, certainly. But we do have two data points on that line.

It could be that they're interfering but even when I shut down GOG in the past it made little difference... part of the problem is that the game lumps a number of different issues under the Direct X heading, and so you need to go into your event log to get a better idea of what it was.

Event viewer is a good way to check what might be causing errors and or crashed if its not immediately obvious. Its easy to get to grips with if you have never used it before.

So for example, if its a 3rd party driver issue, there will be highlights about a critical error and give a code which you can use to identify a process that is crashing. This way you can at least (if a driver issue) remove the offending driver and revert to an older build or clean the bad driver ( display driver uninstaller if a GPU driver issue) and reinstall it.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/for...-event-viewer/

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So. I'm wondering if these game launchers have it in for each other. I would not expect the game "Launchers" to actually use DirectX11, but maybe they do.
I would not normally expect that these launchers are "Jealous" in some way and are saying to themselves - "You are playing way to much of that other game, and not me, so I'll randomly clobber that nice game you've been playing...." anyway. That's the conspiratist [or is that Conspiratorialist?] in me I guess. But what with all the other "Real" conspiracies going around: Why not?

But after shutting that GoG thing down, I have played all day hard - gathering Moogle Tomes - and no FFXIV client crashes. So that's a data point. And it lines up with a previous comment that a LoL [League of Legends I presume] Launcher was causing problems for someone.

Say. Do these Launchers look for programs that are "adding features" [not using the Exp banned word here] games, and deciding that other games are baddies and clobbering them? Naw. That's second order conspiracy theory, certainly. But we do have two data points on that line.

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It is more likely the other launchers use different versions of DirectX or ActiveX (yes, most launchers are Internet Explorer based) during their idle stages to load the banners, links, pre-launch, and media.
While your video card is happy to be running a DirectX11 game, it doesn't like to be interrupted to also run other DirectX versions or media-overlays at the same time, even those that are in another window in the background or minimized.

Less stuff running in the background = better for gaming

So exit/shut-off/do-not-run-on-Windows-startup all your launchers and only start the one up for the game you are going to play.

I've been getting crashes all weekend, 3 no-error crashes in the last hour alone.

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I've been getting crashes all weekend, 3 no-error crashes in the last hour alone.

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I honestly wonder if you have hardware issues or a corrupt windows install then. Cuz in the 6 years i've been playing this game, i've never had a hard crash to desktop. I had a few directx crashes once a month in heavensward, but I was running SLI at the time so I blame that.

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I've been getting crashes all weekend, 3 no-error crashes in the last hour alone.

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Ouch. And no other launchers going? I've played all day with no crashes. Spamming Praetorium for moogle tomes. Not running GoG launcher has fixed my problem, apparently.

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Ouch. And no other launchers going? I've played all day with no crashes. Spamming Praetorium for moogle tomes. Not running GoG launcher has fixed my problem, apparently.

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I honestly wonder if you have hardware issues or a corrupt windows install then. Cuz in the 6 years i've been playing this game, i've never had a hard crash to desktop. I had a few directx crashes once a month in heavensward, but I was running SLI at the time so I blame that.

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No, I dont have any launchers going and I am fairly sure I do not have a corrupt install.

Lemme restart this piece of schmidt comp and see if that fixes it.

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Ouch. And no other launchers going? I've played all day with no crashes. Spamming Praetorium for moogle tomes. Not running GoG launcher has fixed my problem, apparently.

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For me it was fully wiping the drivers and doing a clean reinstall which seems to have drastically cut down the incidents, but I used to close GoG and Steam to improve latency since they often download stuff in the background, so I might go back to doing that as well... I've also removed GeForce Experience as some people have reported the error goes away once they stopped using it and its setting optimisation tool.

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No, I dont have any launchers going and I am fairly sure I do not have a corrupt install.

Lemme restart this piece of schmidt comp and see if that fixes it.

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Are u doing runs when the crash happened? or in a populated area. it sound like hardware failure. have u check the temperature in the computer after the crash

Also what kind rig are u using in terms of ram, card and operating system 32 or 64

Honestly, the freezing and crashing issues are why I still use the 32-bit client.

I don't mind having faster technology when it works, but...

I was having really bad DirectX crashes for a few months. Even a clean reinstall only temporarily fixed it, but I followed the advice in this post followed by a fresh install of the game and haven't had a problem in the past month. Can't say for sure that it's fixed permanently, but it seems to have worked for me.

No crash here but a very huge latency sometimes (and during 10-20 minutes). Since patch 5.18.

This happened to me last night about 5 times after I updated AMD drivers, I rolled back but the issue was still there.

I then restarted my pc and I could play normally for an hour then I logged out so can't confirm if the the issue is gone or not.

Crashes and lagging like a mofo on Excalibur right now.

Glad to know Im not the only one. I thought maybe my wifi was going nuts, but everything works elsewhere.
lagging like mad on Goblin atm

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Glad to know Im not the only one. I thought maybe my wifi was going nuts, but everything works elsewhere.
lagging like mad on Goblin atm

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Same. There's a nigh unplayable amount of lag right now. (also on Goblin)

Crazy lag and 90k crashes on Sargatanas right now. Tried doing Hidden Gorge and it was terrible I feel bad for my team because I was completely useless the entire match. Crashed twice and the rest of the time everything would stand still for 10 to 45 seconds and then rush real suddenly and I'd be dead. I give up for now I won't bother playing like this. Going back to my Witcher 2 play through instead for the time being.

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Crazy lag and 90k crashes on Sargatanas right now. Tried doing Hidden Gorge and it was terrible I feel bad for my team because I was completely useless the entire match. Crashed twice and the rest of the time everything would stand still for 10 to 45 seconds and then rush real suddenly and I'd be dead. I give up for now I won't bother playing like this. Going back to my Witcher 2 play through instead for the time being.

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90k isn't a crash, and not what the OP is talking about here.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

90k isn't a crash, and not what the OP is talking about here.

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It was 90k then when I tried connecting to data center again it would CTD. So yeah it was crashing.

EDIT: Actually, this forum is really slow too loading each page. Takes a good 30 seconds when before it was near instant.

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It was 90k then when I tried connecting to data center again it would CTD. So yeah it was crashing.

EDIT: Actually, this forum is really slow too loading each page. Takes a good 30 seconds when before it was near instant.

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The forums are hosted in japan. Its probably your internet connection. Lots of people on reddit have said comcast is having issues.

And teh game always kicks you to desktop if you fail to load back into a datacenter. He's talking about the game just hardcrashing to desktop without an error. Very different from network issues causing DC's which then the client closes.

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Lots of people on reddit have said comcast is having issues.

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