Freeze/Crash & BSOD issues

[Vodomir]

In the majority of cases, it seems people experiencing this specific issue, exclusive to FFXIV, have high end CPUs and GPUs.

I can’t be sure that everyone posting is running 64 bit systems, but as far as I have seen, everyone who has posted their specs are running 64 bit systems with more than 4 gigs RAM (RAM + Video Memory).

This may be a combination of the 64 architecture, and RAM in excess of 4 gigs (RAM + Video RAM).

I guess I can safely discard both theories as a myth, as my gf suffers from the same gfx driver reset, bacl screen and BSOD issues and is actually running a mediocre system (an old Athlon II X4 with an ATI Radeon HD4650 gfx card) with no more than 4 GB of RAM. She does however run Win 7 64-though, but that's what I run, too, without any of those issues.

[Blaez19]

Frustrating. I definitely don't have the technical know-how to solve this mystery...but I'm sure as heck hoping those at Square-Enix can tackle it eventually. :-/

I've had the best luck running Nvidia's 326.80 drivers. With those, I just get a crash to desktop. With the latest Nvidia drivers that changes to a BSOD. The change in behaviour suggests that it could be driver related but I really know zilch about this stuff. At this point I'm with most others here in thinking that it's an issue that will take some adjustment on SE's end to fix.

[Adament]

I guess I can safely discard both theories as a myth, as my gf suffers from the same gfx driver reset, bacl screen and BSOD issues and is actually running a mediocre system (an old Athlon II X4 with an ATI Radeon HD4650 gfx card) with no more than 4 GB of RAM. She does however run Win 7 64-though, but that's what I run, too, without any of those issues.

Windows calculates RAM @ RAM + Video RAM, so, you GF maybe running more than 4 Gigs (depending upon the MB/Graphics Card {dedicated or no}, some laptops share and some don't ).

I did talk to some people in my free company, and 1 person out of 6 (I think) that ran 64 bit did not have a problem. I would have questioned further on the specifics of his system, but I'd rather be playing. You can check your total RAM by doing a dxdaig, just type dxdiag in the search bar of your OS, then ad your system memory to your display memory= total RAM; as far as windows is concerned.

That would be interesting though if the RAM was 4Gb or less on a 64 bit system, that's something I'm unable to do. I guess I'm just looking something in common with this particular problem. The wild card seems to be, who doesn't have this problem, that also uses similar equipment/software as everyone else.

Sometimes its crunchy sometimes its slimy, but its always Fresh!~

[Adament]

Oh, another thought I had almost missed. DDR3.

The FC people I talked to were all using DDR3, but it maybe nothing. Anyone using DDR2 for RAM on your MB's with issues?

This is just a fart in the wind, but it was brought up.