Game crashing whenever I try to play in borderless window mode or press alt + tab

Good afternoon everyone, I've returned to playing FFXIV after a month offline but whenever I press alt + tab or try to play in borderless window the games ends up crashing, which is something that has happened before but I'm not able to solve the same way I did it before.
I've tried both updating and downgrading the driver but it didn't help

Is anyone else experiencing something similar?

the error code that appears is:

"A fatal DirectX error has ocurred.1100000f)

this is my system information:





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

Have any changes happened to the device before the issue began? We would also like to recommend several other troubleshooting steps:

1) Make sure that your hardware is not overheating and remove any overclocks you may have on your graphics card or processor. Please check that any fans or vents are clear of blocks.
2) Disable any additional programs that could cause interference with the game itself including chat programs. Also, remove any custom configurations made using graphics driver-level programs.
3) Turn off Fullscreen Optimizations. Find the executable file for the game (normally found in the install folder), right-click it and select 'Properties'. Under the 'Compatibility' tab, check the box labeled 'Disable Fullscreen Optimizations', then click 'Apply'.
4) Remove any unnecessary USB or audio devices (controllers, headphones, flash drives etc.)
5) Update and reinstall the drivers for your graphics card
6) Perform a clean boot by opening the task manager and select the 'Start up' Tab. Disable everything

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Good evening

The fans and vents are clean, It's not a question of overheating as I can play other games without any problem

I've disable every startup program I could and the problem still happens

No USB or Audio devices are plugged when I play the game

I've updated all my drivers and the problem still happens

I've performed the clean boot the error is persisting

I've tried turning off fullscreen optimizations but the error still happens

Good morning and thank you for the reply.

Does the game crash when it is only run in borderless full screen? If you were to alt + tab in full screen mode would it crash? Additionally could you try reinstalling the graphics drivers?

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Good afternoon!

The crash happens whener I try to change the game to borderless full screen. It also happens when I press alt + tab while in fullscreen mode. If I try to start the game in borderless window it crashes right after opening. Just tried reinstalling the drivers but the error still happens

Good afternoon and thank you for the reply.

Does the crash occur when the game is run in windowed mode?

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Long shot here, but are you using Nvidia's DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution), or any of the other similar options to improve resolution and such? I'm guessing not, but I know that if I use DSR to set my resolution to something higher-resolution for screenshots, FFXIV dies hard with a DirectX error when I swap out of it unless I've set the entire system's resolution at desktop to match.

Greetings,

I also get the fatal direct x error and some random crashes. I never had issues before until last week after I updated my Nvidia driver to the latest version 451.67.
I am not sure yet if I am going to remove the driver and install the previous version or wait for an update. :)

After having a clean boot crash my PC to the point of having to hard reset my main HD with the windows OS on it. Try this for I kept getting Dx11 errors from just 1 quest. Uninstall ff14 fully and do a clean reinstall. Mine worked and Im still salty at support for even suggesting the clean boot (and even my cousin that works for Microsoft is wondering why they said for it can cause a lot of issues like I just had)

Good afternoon!

Yes, the crash also happens when I try switching to windowed mode

As for DSR, my GPU doesn't support it (Well I wasn't able to find any options about it on the nvidia control panel)

I've tried the clean reinstall once but it didn't help, actually :( but I'll try again I guess

I wonder if the driver 451.67 is the problem, but when I tried using another driver the error still kept happening :(

Thank you everyone for your answers though!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Whoger

As for DSR, my GPU doesn't support it (Well I wasn't able to find any options about it on the nvidia control panel)

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FWIW, your GPU does support it, but it's not labeled as such on the control panel. It's just a matter of going to the Screen Resolution part of the control panel and adding custom resolutions larger than your monitor. They'll show up as valid resolutions, but if you set a game to use one, Nvidia's DSR functionality will take the larger renders and scale them down cleanly to match the monitor resolution.

However, it has to be set up manually. So it sounds pretty definitive you're not using it, and thus it can't be the culprit for you. (Unlike for me, where it happens when I swap to an absurd resolution via DSR in order to take screenshots, and then tab out without thinking.)

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Packetdancer

FWIW, your GPU does support it, but it's not labeled as such on the control panel. It's just a matter of going to the Screen Resolution part of the control panel and adding custom resolutions larger than your monitor. They'll show up as valid resolutions, but if you set a game to use one, Nvidia's DSR functionality will take the larger renders and scale them down cleanly to match the monitor resolution.

However, it has to be set up manually. So it sounds pretty definitive you're not using it, and thus it can't be the culprit for you. (Unlike for me, where it happens when I swap to an absurd resolution via DSR in order to take screenshots, and then tab out without thinking.)

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Oh, I did not know that! Yes, as you already deduced I never did anything of the sort, I've been usin the same screen resolution ever since I bought my notebook lol
But thank you for telling me that, it's nice to know :)

So, I reinstalled the game after deleting everything in its folder but the problem still happens.

I've also tried doing a driver rollback but the error still happens

Good afternoon and thank you for the reply.

Remove any injectors from the game or system (Reshade, Nvidia Freestyle, etc.). Also, remove any custom configurations made using driver-level programs (Nvidia Control Panel, Radeon Crimson). If you have not done so already, are you able to do a clean reinstall of the game?

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Good evening.

Just did a clean reinstall of the game and still getting the error.

I don't have any injectors installed and no custom configurations.

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

Unfortunately, the device information in the provided System Report does indicate that the laptop being used does not meet the minimum specifications required to play FINAL FANTASY XIV most notably the Intel(R) HD Graphics Family chipset. We do not support Intel graphics cards for FINAL FANTASY XIV. However, I did notice there is an NVIDIA device that is not listed as the primary graphics card. This suggests that you may be running NVIDIA Optimus which controls whether your system utilizes the base Intel card or the NVIDIA card to conserve battery power. Please try disabling NVIDIA Optimus and see if the error persists. For instructions on how to force the NVIDIA card to be enabled or to disable Optimus, please contact NVIDIA Support.

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That's weird, specially considering I configured FFXIV on my nvidia control panel to use the Nvidia GPU.
So I tried discovering how to disable optimus on my pc and it turns out I can't. But the weird thing is: earlier this year I was able to play FFXIV without any problems! And I didn't change anything on my pc (save updating the drivers)
I then decided to try using the nvidia gpu as my global configuration, but when doing that the FFXIV Launcher won't load correctly, not allowing me to do my login, staying always in the screen with the game logo.

Hi!! Posting here just to inform that I solved the problem!!

Turns out my intel driver was outdated, despite telling me it was up to date when I tried to update it using the device manager.

So I had to download the new one from the intel website, uninstall the old one, delete it from my pc,turn off the internet, restart the pc and install the new driver. Doing that made the game stop crashing and now I can play without any troubles!!

Thank you everyone who helped me in this thread!

Good morning and thank you for the reply

I am glad that are you are no longer experiencing this issue. If you have any more questions or concerns, please post again in the technical support forums.

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