Unable to detect directX and FFXIV close itself.

[Train88]

I'm using a nvidia gt 200 serie and i used to get this all the time.
-Alt tabing in full screen would cause this.
-Not setting AnitAliasing to 2x in FF settings would cause this

Now it's been a while since i got it.

[Xplatinum]

thx for that monkey its working for me so far b4 i did like you say i was not even abel to get back in the game

[Frein]

I believe Monkey is on the right track and that this is actually a Windows 7 issue. Something with the whole Aero thing W7 has causes the game to temporarily lose the DirectX device (the GPU) and this would normally not be a problem but of course FFXIV is "special", so it loses the GPU for good. This is also why alt+tabbing in fullscreen mode will always instantly crash the game. I still run XP, so I can't personally confirm this.

Also, a couple nitpicks: The i7, while a good CPU, cannot run FFXIV on its own (CPUs are really horrible at graphics calculation and don't cut it in modern games). When the 540M (which is actually a low end card, btw) is not in use, the laptop uses it's integrated graphics chip which of course sucks because its only there for saving power.

[Fear]

So basically can we conclude that 540M has the problem? either the card or driver.

I can play this game in low resolution without any crash at all if I run by just core-i7 intel. (Turn Nvidia off)

I had this issue on my old laptop it turned out to be the newer drivers that caused it, uninstall your drivers and install 2-3 OLDER versions of them. My laptop has a Radeon driver but I had to install a 7 month old driver and then it worked without any problems

[Fear]

Also, a couple nitpicks: The i7, while a good CPU, cannot run FFXIV on its own (CPUs are really horrible at graphics calculation and don't cut it in modern games).

Got to stop you there as this is rubish, before I got my graphics card I was playing FFXIV on my Intel i5 2500k's intergrated graphics, I had to turn some settings down such as res. to 6 but it ran fairly stable at 25-30FPS, you can easily overclock the graphics in a K series, I upped my intergrated from 1100Mhz to 1400Mhz and it ran very well, scored 1000 in the benchmark to.

[Frein]

Got to stop you there as this is rubish, before I got my graphics card I was playing FFXIV on my Intel i5 2500k's intergrated graphics, I had to turn some settings down such as res. to 6 but it ran fairly stable at 25-30FPS, you can easily overclock the graphics in a K series, I upped my intergrated from 1100Mhz to 1400Mhz and it ran very well, scored 1000 in the benchmark to.

That's a fair point but it's not really the CPU running it, it's the integrated GPU that's baked into the latest generation of Intel CPUs. Before the i-series you had to have either a separate video card or an integrated chip on the motherboard to run graphics from this decade. It's because the CPU is specialized on running a few very complicated calculations simultaneously, while graphics require hundreds of simultaneous yet very simple calculations, which is what a GPUs is good at.

[Alise]

Monkey is on the right track, I think that help me too.