GTX680 And Losing DirectX Device

[Flasher]

just got a crash so the new video card drivers dint fix it yet

[Daku_Naito]

The new drivers messed up my chrome.

[Sajittarius]

Guys alot of people with 600 series cards are having success with the 302.59 developer driver. Its available at guru3d.com or laptopvideo2go.com..

They are the drivers im using and im not crashing anymore. Although i crashed right after installing them, and i disabled hw acceleration from silverlight and then they started working. So i recommend trying them, or wait for the next beta drivers which will probably be from the 302.xx branch.

[Tsukki]

301.42 Drivers here 2x GTX680's in SLI, Silverlight HW acceleration is off, DoF and AO are off, no crashes so far, I will try the 302.59 Dev Drivers. I saw them a while now but was hesitant to use them.

[Emulord]

I got the crashes too, dammit I thought I was alone on earth having those troubles on a MSI GTX670 OC, which was running OCCT and VMEMTEST damned perfectly!

I'll also try the tip and tell you how it is going for me. I'm so glad a solution for the problem - which has been preventing me from sleeping for a week now, I thought my card was faulty - has been found!

[Vili]

Just started back up after a break from the game. Have 301.42 Installed with Silver Lights HW Acceleration off with DoF and AO on. I am getting a strange studdering though, it is still smooth in a way, hard to explain, and I have tried both 60FPS and 30FPS. I never drop below 30 FPS. Also have prefer Maximum Performance set for the game in the Nvidia Control Panel.

GTX680 SLI @ 2560x1440

Edit-Not a fan of Dev Drivers, but I think I'm going to give them a shot, if the game would smooth out I would be happy.

[Emulord]

Thanks a lot! Now the game is running like a charm w/ AO off, DoF off, Silverlight HWA off !

While it was crashing after around 5 minutes in Ul'Dah area, now I've been playing for more than an hour without any trouble.

[Flasher]

Just started back up after a break from the game. Have 301.42 Installed with Silver Lights HW Acceleration off with DoF and AO on. I am getting a strange studdering though, it is still smooth in a way, hard to explain, and I have tried both 60FPS and 30FPS. I never drop below 30 FPS. Also have prefer Maximum Performance set for the game in the Nvidia Control Panel.

GTX680 SLI @ 2560x1440

Edit-Not a fan of Dev Drivers, but I think I'm going to give them a shot, if the game would smooth out I would be happy.

Vili i have the GTX690 and when i run the game on one single GPU i get more FPS then the dual GPU turned on.
maybe best you try it also with only 1 card(GPU) active.

[Vili]

Vili i have the GTX690 and when i run the game on one single GPU i get more FPS then the dual GPU turned on.
maybe best you try it also with only 1 card(GPU) active.

Just tried that, Disabled SLI, SLI with Single GPU and both Alternate Frame Renderings in the FFXIV Profile with the Nvidia Control Panel. I get less than 30FPS whenever I get near a group of mobs, NPC's, or players. Even tree's will cause my FPS to go lower, I'm talking like low 20's. I also removed my GPU Overclock although I know it to be stable in other demanding games like BF3 and Metro 2033.
What is your Screen Resolution? With mine being bigger than 1920x1080 I need more than one GPU if I am going to max everything out minus General Drawing Quality. That I have to leave set to 8. However, if I Disable AO and set that to 9 I am fine with smooth game play never going below 30FPS.
I do have DoF Enabled, and I have yet to crash, would love to test AO, see if they fixed the issue and didn't say so in the release notes for the latest WHQL, but the game does not run that smooth.
Think the drivers just need some more maturing, this after all only the second WHQL for the 600 Series.

[tyw214]

how do you turn off HW acceleration on Silverlight?