Freeze/Crash & BSOD issues

[Wataza]

I can't say that I'm having the exact same problems, seeing as how I don't know how in depth my problem may or may not be, but I am randomly freezing/crashing. I thought maybe it was my graphics card or something but I've played Beta 3 and 4 with zero problems. When early access began is when the problems began. During early access I managed to get a few hours of gameplay in before I was kicked and ever since I haven't been able to stay in the game for more than a few minutes before it kicks me and gives me error 2002 or 90000. I am using an AMD Radeon graphics that's above the minimum requirements but below the recommended and when I'm in game it runs nicely until stuff freezes.

[Whoosah]

I'm having this same issue w/a AMD Radeon HD 6850.

Gameplay can last up to an hour, and then crash with a game freeze where I can't do anything, and have to manually hard reboot. Very annoying.

[Raace]

I remember reading in the past that FF14 was to use PhysX for their character physics. I have no clue whether this is true or not but you could try setting your PhysX settings to CPU only and give that a whirl. Quick little window with location: http://imgur.com/kJZMaBq

[Isenwan_AngelSoul]

Hi, i have recently installed Dev Driver 326.84, that you can found on Guru 3D Website (forum->nvidia driver), with the latest Physx Driver (9.13.0725), and it fix all problem for me with my GTX 770, since i don't have driver crash (Timeout Detection and Recovery ) or BSOD, my game works fine.
This driver have best performance in FF14ARR Benchmark since 314.22. (equal)

I experiment this issue with all driver from 310.90 to last 326.80, 314.22 was the most stable but with TDR error sometimes.

Try and feedback, on a french community forum, i share this tip and it fix the game for other players.

[dstyle]

i get bsod all the time...never happened in beta but since EA, happens all the time.

the thing i noticed, its pretty random..someone with the same build or graphics card will be perfectly fine..

for example, when i play this game at home, BSOD...
when i play this at a pc cafe with computers that are pretty much identical with mine, it works perfectly fine.

[KMarsara]

i had similar problems, but after rolling back to the 320.49 drivers. I havent had a single crash.

[dstyle]

mine crashed with both 320.49 and 326.80

[Blazza]

mine crashed with both 320.49 and 326.80

Same. I'll try the physX on CPU thing after work, but from what I've experienced and read, it has absolutely no relation to drivers.

[dstyle]

yea, i agree...dont think its a driver/hardware issue...
i think the client randomly picks players and forces our computers to crash to help with the server congestion...

as i said before, a pc cafe with almost identical build with mine runs perfectly fine.

[Raace]

yea, i agree...dont think its a driver/hardware issue...
i think the client randomly picks players and forces our computers to crash to help with the server congestion...

as i said before, a pc cafe with almost identical build with mine runs perfectly fine.

Honestly with all these issues that people are experiencing (including the MSVC++ Pure Virtual Calls) I am suspecting that people are getting corrupted game assets. I detect some sarcasm but unless they specifically coded in a fault to crash your client when they wanted to I don't think that is the case.

So far I haven't had any issues with my GTX 680 and I am using the 320.49 Drivers; I have PhysX set to CPU and Vsync turned off.

When the game crashes does it just ctd? or does it hang up? Also does it happen more frequently in loaded areas or is it just completely random?