Constant DirectX Errors and Crashing, Game is Unplayable

I've been having this issue for about three months or so now, not sure what's causing it. Sometimes it happens after 5 minutes, sometimes after 2 hours, sometimes not at all. But when it does, my game randomly freezes up and crashes and I get the 11000002 error and I basically have to restart my computer.

So far, I have tried:
- Updating Windows 10
- Updating my drivers
- Reinstalling the game
- Changing resolutions
- Reinstalling graphics drivers
- Factory resetting my PC
- Disabling Discord Overlays
- Playing on DX9 instead of 11 (the game won't even launch for me if I try that, I get a separate error)

And probably a couple things I've forgotten. I feel like there's nothing left I can try. ):

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

Does the crash occur in a specific location in game? Additionally since the crash started happening, were any changes made to the PC?

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I've had the issues occur pretty much everywhere, from the summoning bell outside my house, to busy cities, to Bozja, etc. It doesn't seem to be affected by the amount of people nearby from what I've seen.

Can you elaborate what you mean by "changes"? The only things I have deliberately done that I can think of are to install Windows Updates as they have been rolled out, tried to keep my drivers up to date, etc. I have not installed any new hardware or anything of that nature.

Good afternoon and thank you for the reply.

By "changes" I mean such as any updates made to the PC itself (optional and mandatory)

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Ah, then yeah, the only things I can think of are the things I previously mentioned, the Windows Updates and my drivers. I don't believe I've done anything more than that.

Good afternoon and thank you for the reply.

Does the crash occur if the game is run on windowed mode or borderless full screen? Additionally when the crash occurs, is anything over heating and do you have a way of monitoring these temperatures ?

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It's happened in both windowed mode and borderless full screen. I don't believe anything is overheating, especially in the instances when I reboot my computer, start up the game, and it crashes immediately. I do have a program on my computer that manages my GPU and CPU temperatures.

I've tried running the game with very few programs open (especially Google Chrome) to try to prevent these issues as well but its usefulness has seemed hit or miss.

It is not just you.

Assuming you can even get the launcher to work, and get in game. Something is wrong on The game end.

Just trying to save you some time going through all the copy/paste responses. There are LOTS of complaints about the game right now not working.

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Originally Posted by KatieConnr

It is not just you.

Assuming you can even get the launcher to work, and get in game. Something is wrong on The game end.

Just trying to save you some time going through all the copy/paste responses. There are LOTS of complaints about the game right now not working.

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Yeah, I browsed through a lot of those threads before posting mine and trying any solutions I saw suggested to no avail. ):
Thought maybe there was something else causing my issues that others weren't experiencing.

Good morning 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 computer 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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I thought I had my NVIDIA card set as default; I had it that way in the System Configuration in game and manually set it to be the default card for the game in the NVIDIA control panel. I was unable to find a way to disable Optimus, but I'll see if changing the primary graphics card makes a difference.

Setting my default GPU to my NVIDIA card did not solve my issue. It took longer for it to happen but I am still experiencing the same errors.

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This thread will be moved to 'Closed Concerns.' If anyone is still having this particular problem, please create a new thread and we will assist you in any way we can.

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