Random BSOD crashes in FF14

Been getting Random BSOD crashes

Just reinstalled windows and FF14, still happening

Event ID: 161
Source: volgmr

Its just in the last week its been happening been playing ff14 for years never had this.

My temps are fine, custom water-cooling (never gets above 50c).

Seems to be since the last update?

Sounds like it’s probably hardware failure, maybe your RAM or HHD or SSD is starting to fail.

A little update to anyone experiencing crashes, 3rd windows reinstall, 3rd FF14 re-download and install, don't install Windows Pro N (i thought maybe this would work), as ff14 wont work, its missing files.

Edit, seemed to crash most often when fast travelling.

Specs Ryzen 7 5800x, X570 Asus Dark latest bios beta
32gb Mem 3200mhz
Nvidia Founders 3080 all on custom water (no temp issues) no overclock.

Seems to be working so far, i havent installed the latest Nvidia drivers, or MSI Afterburner, i like the overlay for potential issues, but maybe this was the issue, who knows.

Ill keep you posted, it seems to be from the last ff14 update that my issues started happening.

Basically still happening, totally had enough of this, game is unplayable, so will be cancelling my sub until they update the crappy game engine, so prob never.

On a note all other games work fine

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Originally Posted by Squizzer

Been getting Random BSOD crashes

Just reinstalled windows and FF14, still happening

Event ID: 161
Source: volgmr

Its just in the last week its been happening been playing ff14 for years never had this.

My temps are fine, custom water-cooling (never gets above 50c).

Seems to be since the last update?

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PLEASE READ THESE! I've seen this for the past few weeks, a Windows update causing BSODS and poor frame rate for gaming.


https://www.windowscentral.com/lates...ghtmare-gamers
https://www.pcgamesn.com/microsoft/w...erformance-fix

You can also manually uninstall KB5001330 as well as the optional KB5000842 .

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Originally Posted by Squizzer

Basically still happening, totally had enough of this, game is unplayable, so will be cancelling my sub until they update the crappy game engine, so prob never.

On a note all other games work fine

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We understand your frustration, but can't really fault the game while the rest of us are working flawless. There are updates push by Microsoft as stated above causes issue - 99% is system malconfig. 1% hardware goes on fire.

Thanks for your responses, 4th time lucky, reinstall of windows, but halted all windows updates, seems to be working.

Dare I run any overlay software though, or change it from full window?

I may try tmr.

Fingers crossed:)

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Originally Posted by Squizzer

Thanks for your responses, 4th time lucky, reinstall of windows, but halted all windows updates, seems to be working.

Dare I run any overlay software though, or change it from full window?

I may try tmr.

Fingers crossed:)

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i had that same error and it was my main M2 SSD that was failing, tried multpile windows reinstalls, replaced my ram as well, finally replaced my M2 SSD and everything worked fine no isses since.

Exactly the same problem. It is impossible to play. I noticed that crashes occur only when playing under DX11. With dx9, everything is fine. I will try to remove the win 10 updates.

Had same problem and at the end it was the M2 SSD who died. The BSOD were just the first sign, they became more and more frequent and one day it just didn't start at all. Bought a new one and everything was good again.

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Originally Posted by Darkmoonrise

Had same problem and at the end it was the M2 SSD who died. The BSOD were just the first sign, they became more and more frequent and one day it just didn't start at all. Bought a new one and everything was good again.

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yeah, BSOD crashes occuring frequently typically point to either a hardware or system error.

Might need to get your hardware checked out.

Well, as i reinstalled on my SSD which seemed to be working fine, i thought ok it must be the Windows update that's causing the issue, so i reinstalled on my NVME drive with no windows updates (WD black) an lo and behold it crashes again.

So back to my trusty old crucial SSD which seems to be working although i haven't tried to do much in FF14 as im supposed to be working, i do think though that the windows updates break it, but i also think that my NVME drive may be a bit broke, or maybe its a combination of both, ive run hdd tests on the drive they say its fine, ill keep you posted.

Let me know how you guys get on:), good luck

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Originally Posted by Squizzer

Well, as i reinstalled on my SSD which seemed to be working fine, i thought ok it must be the Windows update that's causing the issue, so i reinstalled on my NVME drive with no windows updates (WD black) an lo and behold it crashes again.

So back to my trusty old crucial SSD which seems to be working although i haven't tried to do much in FF14 as im supposed to be working, i do think though that the windows updates break it, but i also think that my NVME drive may be a bit broke, or maybe its a combination of both, ive run hdd tests on the drive they say its fine, ill keep you posted.

Let me know how you guys get on:), good luck

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when my M2 was failing all the tests were passing as well which is why it took so long for me to replace it, but after replacing ram and 2 reinstalls of windows it was either my SSD or motherboard at that point so i chose M2 and never had any issues since.

Yeah - a while back I was experiencing some massive lag issues, graphics issues, internet issues (slow loading times, etc etc) and it all culminated in one day experiencing BSOD OVER and OVER again to the point where even when I was trying to reinstall windows, BSOD.

The BSODs began occuring when I was playing XIV so I'd assumed it had something to do with XIV - defragged my HDD, ran test after test, everything seemed fine.

Ended up buying a new HDD (I didn't have enough for an SSD and didn't want to skimp on space because I do a lot of gaming and video editing and art, and I only had $100 to spare)

All my problems went away the moment I switched out drives.

Hi all,

For anyone having the same sort of issues, seems to be fine now, updated BIOS re-installed Windows and FF14 on a different SSD not my NVME drive, which i've sent for RMA, still haven't done any Windows updates, so still not 100 percent sure if it was those Windows updates or my drive, i'm thinking more the drive now.

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