"FFXIV Has Stopped Working"

[LydallMomoda]

I had the same "Stopped working" error after the patch. Similar to the posters, I pretty much tried everything to debug, including going so far as upgrading from Win7 to Win81, but none of that fixed the issue.

I did stumble upon a fix the worked for me to let FFXIV to get past the error-- having Diablo3 running when starting FFXIV. If I start D3 then alt-tab and launch FFXIV it seems to load fine. If D3 is not running it will crash. I suspect you can close D3 once you make it past the login screen to save resources. Another application that initializes the 3D video card before launching FFXIV might work too. I am using a ATI Radeon HD 6950.

I also temporary fixed this problem by using the method as similar as yours. For my case, I need to make sure my laptop is offline when I turn on my laptop, need windows media players/youtube running (and must have sounds come out from you laptop/headphone LOL!) while starting FFXIV. If I don't do these before starting FFXIV, the game client sure will crash and need to restart my laptop to do these processes all over again!

This sounds very weird right? VERY weird!