Quote Originally Posted by alibutterfly View Post
I also have a GTX 970 and have been crashing in DX11. I was excited to try it out in DX11 as soon as early access was available, but within several hours of playing, my screen went totally black but the sound continued
This particular issue looks more like the GFX card itself crashing, or the video driver crashing. I wonder what kind of heat its putting out, do you have a temp monitor on that thing. It would be nice to know what its sitting at while in the game. I know sometimes if a game crashed my video driver, esp at full screen, sometimes I have to do a CTRL+ALT+DEL which depending on your situation, sometimes lets you get out of the mess. If the driver is completely crashed though that wont do anything. But sometimes when you hit that, it comes up with the windows options, and you hit ESC, and then have the option to shutdown the game, or at least SEE something. Anyways that is a totally separate issue to the random crashes in the game. When we say crash's we are referring to the FFXIV has encountered a error type messages, spontaneously.