Freeze Screen Issues

[Marishi-Ten]

Thanks for the reply. Im 110 % sure its not a heat issue. My rig is water-cooled,I can run this game for 8 hours straight and both my cpu and gpu will never go above 55 deg. I have try all NVidia driver for the last 6 months with no results. I have stress this my pc inside and out, from intel burn test to memtest. U name it I have try it.Its all happen at random times.Im more feeling its FFXIV that's causing the issue. When this happens and screen freeze. I would be still on team speak and my party/FC member can see the red bar next to my name as if im lagging out. I don't know if b/c of my freezing it can act as if im lagging out which in term can put the red DCing bar next to my name. Its annoying as heck since it happens so random.

Can you ALT-TAB out? Are you playing full screen or windowed? Have you tried both to see if the issue goes away?

I don't want to sound like a broken record, but check your drivers. FULLY uninstall the old ones (GPU drivers don't just go away even when you tell them to. You have to scrub your machine to get rid of them) and update to the latest driver package.

Check your GPU/CPU/HDD loads too when you have XIV up. Something is running full tilt and causing issues. That or you have packet loss, but from the sounds of it I don't think it's a latency issue. The problem seems local to your machine. Just gotta narrow down what.

[Kestreel]

When this happens, I can ALT TAB out np. get on my desktop and do w/e I want. I can go back to FFXIV too (screen will be still froze tho until it decides to unlock itself. When I do a driver install I usually just check the "Clean install" under advance install settings. My pc specs are as follow. I7 860, pny gtx 670, 8gigs of ddr3 and SSD drive. I have monitos running to show my cpu load and gpu load while im gaming. My cpu load is about 33 to 45 % while my gpu load is about 60~ %, which I cap my fps at 60. If I remove my fps cap then gpu will hit 99%. Thanks for taking your time to try and help me with this.