"Display driver stopped responding and has recovered"

[Alhanelem]

I was told by EA staff that using 3rd party programs to dual box was against the tos, yet people are talking about it in here like it is not.. wth already, is it allowed or not allowed.. my head is about to explode

What does EA have to do with Square Enix and FFXIV?

Dualboxing is allowed. Using a bot program to autonomously control the other character is not.

[Suraj]

I've bought myself a MSI GTX670 OC'd a couple of months ago and just recently started having this issue... it's not overheating and downgrading my drivers had no effect either.

It happened occasionaly before, but today it did many, many times in a row in Ul'dah during JP prime time (mass of people fighting the new mobs).

Any more ideas? Or is it just a random common issue with the 1.0 client I shouldn't worry about?

Thank you.

[Valmonte]

there is a known flaw in the dynamic clocking aspect of all the 600 Series. like i said the 304.79 Beta Drivers seem to be the most stable for all of the 600 Series save for the 660Ti and for that id recommend any of the 305.XX Beta Drivers. i think these driver break the dynamic clocking and thats why they work so well.

the reason the current client is crashing XiV is because of the dynamic clocking related to the 600 Series cards. Ive been able to reproduce this issue on a gtx270 and a gtx460 by alt tabing out of the game" Windowed Mode" and changing the Core/Clock frequency in EVGA the result is FFXIV crashes with one of two error messages.

first is a "directX error"

the second is a "Display Driver error"

[Suraj]

there is a known flaw in the dynamic clocking aspect of all the 600 Series. like i said the 304.79 Beta Drivers seem to be the most stable for all of the 600 Series save for the 660Ti and for that id recommend any of the 305.XX Beta Drivers. i think these driver break the dynamic clocking and thats why they work so well.

the reason the current client is crashing XiV is because of the dynamic clocking related to the 600 Series cards. Ive been able to reproduce this issue on a gtx270 and a gtx460 by alt tabing out of the game" Windowed Mode" and changing the Core/Clock frequency in EVGA the result is FFXIV crashes with one of two error messages.

first is a "directX error"

the second is a "Display Driver error"

Done this. Let's see how it goes! Thank you for your time.

Edit: Already crashed.

[Valmonte]

Done this. Let's see how it goes! Thank you for your time.

Edit: Already crashed.

Did you do a Custom Install & check Clean Install box? if you don't do this it wont revert all the drivers to there older counterparts.

[Suraj]

Did you do a Custom Install & check Clean Install box? if you don't do this it wont revert all the drivers to there older counterparts.

Ehhh no, I'll do it though. Crashing occurs less often now too, not sure if it's coincidence or it worked for the most part.

Thanks.

[Valmonte]

Ehhh no, I'll do it though. Crashing occurs less often now too, not sure if it's coincidence or it worked for the most part.

Thanks.

that means its working :P ...its unfortunate but the real fix will come with 2.0

[Falcus]

I started getting this error earlier. It was completely unrelated to FFXIV though as I hadn't even played it today when it happened.
Kept doing what TC said but in my case, it progressively got worse and by this point I can't even startup my PC unless it's in safe mode which limits me to 800x600.

It got worse after I updated my drivers. I'm guessing I need a new GPU /sigh

[Suraj]

that means its working :P ...its unfortunate but the real fix will come with 2.0

I hope so! Bought this GPU mostly for it.