Black screen after launching the game

[CaffeinePanda]

I edited my post to make it more clear which file I changed.

Perfect! Thank you - perhaps it was clear already and I misunderstood. The new solution is far better, as some other games failed to work with the file being renamed (those that required to connect online).

It seems to launch fine, but /sometimes/ will require task manager to close. Our best band aid fix so far...

[Chudah]

Thank you for this! I've been quietly following this thread for 3 months hoping that Square=Enix might finally acknowledge the issue. As always, it comes down to the community to find fixes and work-arounds.

[Sodipops]

I keep going back to tech support chat and on the last one today I requested that someone come look at this thread. I do hope that it goes to someone and that this is revisited so you don't have to keep up the good fight and bumping it every day.

[AlienTech]

Found another temp fix

I did some more experimenting, no need to rename/remove steamclient64.dll in the Steam Folder.

Instead, I renamed "steam_api64.dll" inside <Steam Folder>\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY XIV Online\boot to "steam_api64-bak.dll"

That seems to consistently work for me, and it persists through Steam restarting. I'm assuming it will work until FFXIV pushes an update for that file. Again, not sure what the consequences are, but it allows me to play the game without quitting Steam.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/39210...2110406105307/
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...he-game/page17

100% works

[CaffeinePanda]

Found another temp fix

I did some more experimenting, no need to rename/remove steamclient64.dll in the Steam Folder.

Instead, I renamed "steam_api64.dll" inside <Steam Folder>\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY XIV Online\boot to "steam_api64-bak.dll"

That seems to consistently work for me, and it persists through Steam restarting. I'm assuming it will work until FFXIV pushes an update for that file. Again, not sure what the consequences are, but it allows me to play the game without quitting Steam.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/39210...2110406105307/
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...he-game/page17

100% works

What's the other temp fix? It looks like you quoted Yate and removed the name. That Steam thread you linked, links back to Yate in this thread

[AlienTech]

What's the other temp fix? It looks like you quoted Yate and removed the name. That Steam thread you linked, links back to Yate in this thread

renamed "steam_api64.dll" inside <Steam Folder>\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY XIV Online\boot to "steam_api64-bak.dll"

[CaffeinePanda]

renamed "steam_api64.dll" inside <Steam Folder>\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY XIV Online\boot to "steam_api64-bak.dll"

Ya, but that's what the guy in this thread said lol, I'm saying the Steam link you gave, was linking to this thread, all g, nvm.

[Sodipops]

Possible fix on my end.
I have been tinkering and reinstalling the game a bit now and something worked. I haven't tested it out to see if it will do this 100% of the time but this is the first time in over a week that I am in the game and actually able to do things.

Simple fix was to download in a different driver. The game was originally in my e: drive and now I have changed it to my D: drive. It seems that something (regardless of changes ) was still corrupted and retrying on a new drive fixed it. I know it may not be possible for every one but this was my solution.

[CaffeinePanda]

Daily post - still not fixed

[CaffeinePanda]

6.25 - no acknowledgement, no fix.

But thank Eorzea that a fix was rolled out for "An issue when using the glamour dresser wherein the icon for gear placed in the dresser did not display correctly under certain conditions."

See here => https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...337ea9b2c12277

It's not in resolved issues, nor the known issues.