Game crashes randomly with no error message

Hi all, I hope someone can help me with this.

Starting yesterday the game client would randomly crash to the desktop with no error message, sound or (seeming) reason. Game one momment and then desktop the next. The time this takes from starting the game can take anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours.

After the first time this happned I checked for any updates that my computer or it's drivers might need and installed a couple of Windows updates that I had somehow missed. Unfortuently this didn't help and I am still having the same issue more than 24 hours later.

Strangely enouph one crash resulted in this error message:

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...79398a0306.jpg

I have not had this error message since.

As you can probably tell from my rambling report I am not super technicly proficiant! So please if you can tell me what I need to do to resolve this issue I would be very grateful.

Thank you :)

You are not the only one. Check the technical support forum around your post, and you'll see this is a common issue since the latest patch. It could not have come at a worse time, with everyone stuck at home during lockdown.

Yeah I have the same error. That's really sad. It happens to a lot of people.

Is it possible that it is onlly happenign to people with certain hardware? I can see a few other people on this forum are having this issue as well but I can't see any sort of general outcry on Twitter or Reddit that you would think would accompany such a major fault. :/

So, I just reinstalled my Operating System & the Game too. It seems to be working now. I have played for about 3 hours now with no crashes whatsoever.

Reinstalled your operating system!? You mean uninstalling Windows and reinstallign? Surely there must be a better way than that!

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Originally Posted by ontels

Reinstalled your operating system!? You mean uninstalling Windows and reinstallign? Surely there must be a better way than that!

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As of Windows 10 it's relatively straightforward, you just go to Settings > Update & Security > Recovery. It should only take a couple of hours to do that and install your apps again. It's not like the old days where you'd have to wipe your drive and install fresh off a CD.

Good morning and thank you for visiting the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

Are you able to provide a system report? Simply go to the 'Config' option on the Final Fantasy XIV launcher and to the right of 'System Information' click on 'Display.'

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I can confirm that reinstalling the entire OS was the only thing that fixed this for me.

I don't see how we need to reinstall an OS to fix an issue the game cause from an update.

I've been having this issue as well since the 5.25 update, but mustly the error-less CTD.

No, I get what you're saying, Stitch. But this problem is not going to get fixed in a reasonable time, because that time has passed. This is likely to be fixed on a Square Enix schedule. They already sent out an email announcing they will delay their next patch, citing coronavirus, so I would guess this obscure issue won't get fixed until then.

You're right, we don't "need" to reinstall our operating systems, because technically this is not our problem. However, if you want to play FFXIV without fear of game crashing (right now, and in the foreseeable future), this seems to be the only solution. A lighter version of this solution could be to create a new, standard Windows user, and see how that works, running FFXIV alone, without any other processes running in the background.

Before reinstalling, I tried that, but didn't stick with it because I still had other stuff to do. Then yesterday I went ahead and reinstalled everything for the big win. No crashing since.

i see what you are saying. i under stand the state we are in at the moment with everyone at home, but this happens to multiple people, what they need to do with everyone that complains about the issue is to extend their subscription or fix it. if this was a free to play then yes i would not care. but since we all pay to have access to the game server with little bugs because no game is perfect. we should not have to worry about their update that makes our PC crash it should have been tested before hand because the list of people having issue is a large amount. you seem a few comments about you not the only one. i would do the whole PC OS install but since this PC is a multi user for my wife work and mine. i dont want to take that chance in messing something up and being screwed. yes i can rebuild the PC if something wrong happens but i feel i should not need to do this. so i guess im going to wait until they fix it and once they do im going to ask for a refund or extended time.

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Good morning and thank you for visiting the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

Are you able to provide a system report? Simply go to the 'Config' option on the Final Fantasy XIV launcher and to the right of 'System Information' click on 'Display.'

Thank you for visiting the Final Fantasy XI V Technical Support Forums.

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Thank you for the reply ontels.

If you haven't tried is already, I'd recommend trying both of the following:

1) Perform a clean boot. Simply open the task manager and select the 'Start up' tab. Disable everything here and restart the PC. This will make sure that no background processes are interfering with the game.

2) Reinstall the game. When you do, make sure to remove the locally-saved data folder (located My Documents > My Games > Final Fantasy XIV). Be sure to make a backup of this just in case it doesn't resolve the issue.

We hope we can be of assistance in helping you enjoy the exciting world of Final Fantasy XIV!

I tried the first solution today and it seems to be working!

Thank you very much :)

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

Thank you for keeping us updated. We will be moving this thread to "Closed Concerns".

Good luck with your adventures through Eorzea!