Game Freeze

[Anida]

This doesn't occur with any specific frequency. The game is simply running fine, then it just stops. Frozen. No warning symptoms. The only solution is closing it out and relaunching it, unless it also froze my PC, then a forced system shutdown is required. There has been an error message only once and it was a list of FFXIV drivers. I didn't write them down. The rest of the times it's froze, there were no error messages.

Today, however, was an entirely different issue. Latency! In 24 man raid (specifically, Puppets Bunker - I don't know about others) the time it took for skills to visually go off after hitting the macro was ungodly. Most all party members were experiencing this. Character movement would freeze until the skills visuals went off. Talking to NPC's, the NPC would just freeze during the conversation. All I could do, barring closing the game, was wait until it started responding again as my character was locked in.

I want to emphasize, the game ran fine when Dawntrail early access first released. The only issue, and it was expected, was loading times. Performance has just gone downhill since the first couple of days.

Update:

Regarding my reply to the moderator, after having crippling latency in all 24 man raids, continued stuttering, and freeze, I decided to do a restore on my game last night via the cog icon on the launcher. After the game redownloaded the patch(es), 93+ gigs worth, with only one disconnect error about halfway though, I logged back in.

The game ran much better. Not perfectly, as I did the Lost City of Rabanastre and there was still some minimal latency in skill animations going off, but nothing crippling (just annoying). There was no stuttering or freeze during the time I was on (it was late). I also did the first dungeon of DT (taking my alt through the story, as I have completed it on my main). The dungeon went smooth.

Since the game ran fine for the first couple of days or so after DT, then had performance degradation over the next several, we'll see if it happens again. I'll stay in touch here and I hope this helps someone else with like issues. I know others have tried restoration, and even reinstallation, to no avail.

Note, I made minor changes to my graphics settings as well. Specifically, I turned off all skill animations for all players except myself (it was already set to limited) and I toggled "hide players around quest npc's" to on. That's all I did. Character models were set from maximum to normal before I did the restore and it made no difference at that point.