Game crashes since patch

[Sub-Xero]

Yesterday I ran The Tam-Tara Deepcroft and Copperbell Mines on an alt and everything was perfectly fine in both instances until the moment we engaged the final boss. Both times right at the last boss I began crashing to desktop and every time I would get back in the game I would crash again until after the boss was defeated. I crashed immediately upon engagement with approximately five to six crashes on each boss and, again, it did not stop until the boss was defeated. I had absolutely no issues the previous day running anything but I did not run The Tam-Tara Deepcroft or Copperbell Mines so I don't know if it's just those dungeons.

[ArcticFang]

Have to hard system reset after the game randomly locks up and locks my entire PC. Audio continues playing in background (including twitch streams or even skype calls, I can even talk to people in skype while it's locked up). Nothing whatsoever in event logs other than the event 41 kernel that's caused by me hard resetting. Complete mystery. All I can tell is that it seems to happen more often on a fresh boot. I'm following some advice from folks over here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...sh-BSOD-issues which includes removing display drivers from old graphics cards and going back to older, stable nvidia drivers. Not sure what the results are yet but hope it can help someone. (Note: I have a new issue now though...in-game audio cutting out when I try to hand in quests. :/)

I've had it happen everywhere from central shroud running around doing hunting log to doing fates to HM titan to dungeon instances. Just recently I crashed on Stone Vigil twice in a row (two different instances) just before the last boss. I'm pretty sure it's just awful luck, but I've crashed just before or during the final boss all week...Yet I've done Odin fates on max settings with hundreds of people particle spamming and I have YET to crash during that. I am completely boggled, I have no way to reliably replicate it.

[Jmeat]

Having the same issue. Except in my case (and my wife's case) our display driver stops responding (nVidia GeForce GTX 470). We both have identical systems. I've tried everything from drivers prior to 2.2 to the latest greatest beta. Ever since 2.2 I can tell when it is about to happen, because the framerate gets pretty choppy then the screen goes black and after a moment comes back with an error that the display driver crashed but has recovered. The game will keep running thankfully. Temps are normal, nothing in the logs. FFXIV is the only game that does it and it was flawless prior to 2.2. I chalk it up to some junk that made it into the code with the PS4 release.

Windows 8.1 Pro.

[EdenLost]

Let me add +1 to at least most of the posts.
I played at launch on pc with graphics all the way up, and never had any issues.
I didn't play for a few months in which 2.2 was implemented. Since I came back after that:
Playing in Full Screen causes almost instant pc crash. Borderless window is ok until...

Now, almost anytime I have a cutscene, or change areas, or sometimes at a final boss, game crashes the whole pc. Sometimes I get the blue screen of death, sometimes just restarts pc.

Took me two days to complete one copperbell hm run because I would crash at start of last boss and get kicked from party.

Today, I'm trying to do a simple Sahagin quest that I've done a few times already, but every time the short cutscene kicks in, crash.

Again, I never had any issues before 2.2, so I don't believe anything is wrong with my rig, graphics card or graphics being all the way up.

[EdenLost]

I wanted to add a few details in case it helps anyone who is hopefully working to fix this:

I don't crash in the same places all the time, it seems to change from session to session. I've run Copperbell Hard many, many times without issue until the other couple of days, when I began to lag or crash near the end, and would flat out crash before the last fight if I got that far. I was able to run other things and generally had no problems aside from the CM HM run.

Today, I'm trying to do the Sahagin Tribe quest where you have to ride the Elbst, and I can't get past the cutscene without a crash. I've done the same thing the last few days without any issue, but now it's impossible to complete the quest.

The only common element I can see is either a cutscene, or changing areas such as teleporting or moving to a new floor in a dungeon. I hope that helps, because I love this game, but it's becoming Unplayable.

[Kota_Foxfrey]

I have a problem where my game crashes almost every single time I run between mor dhona's gate to the zone line for coerthas. Sometimes I crash when teleporting somewhere. Windows 7 64bit

[PixelPirate]

Chiming in with frequent crashes and chronic lag as well. Dungeon dropped 3 dps players consecutively. Each said they were lagging, and then 2 minutes later they d/c'd. This happened in similar fashion three times in a row which cannot be coincidental.

[Twillin]

Seems this might fall under the same catagory as this post: (mine is n umber 39)

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...topped-Working

I too have the same problem with random crashing all of a sudden and its never even remotely been a problem before.

[Oniji]

Ok, so this issue has been happening to some extent since launch. It has only been since patch 2.2-2.3+ that it has become noticeably worse. To the point where it started as a minor annoyance, to now, severely hindering my gameplay experience (crashes every 30-60min). I almost expect when I teleport that there is a high likelihood that my client will crash. I am not exaggerating.

Replication:

Teleport to many different zones. Visiting higher population areas/zones will cause the crashes to occur sooner/faster.

It seems to be linked with memory usage. At approximately 1.4-1.45GB of RAM used by the ffxiv.exe the game will start freezing/locking up and eventually crashes.

Setup:

CPU: Intel i7-4770K @ 3.5GHz
Video Card: Sapphire R9 290
RAM: Gskill 16GB DDR3

Tests:

- Reinstalled FFXIV client from scratch - Same issue
- Updated AMD graphics drivers from 13.9 to 14.4 - Same issue
- Tested second spare R9 290 card - Same issue

Speculation:

The reason that I believe it is memory leak as others have discussed, is that as you teleport from zone to zone, the memory slowly increases until eventually it hits the 1.45GB mark and the game crashes.

I have friends running NVIDIA graphics cards and do not appear to have this issue. It might be limited to AMD graphics cards.

This evening, doing 9 treasure maps and 20 hunting log entries worth of teleporting caused 8 crashes. If I visited either Revenant's Toll or Limsa Lominsa during one of the sessions, the client would crash after visiting 3 zones.

[TigretInferno]

I've been having this problem alot lately. Seems everytime I change zones I crash, or even when I'm riding a chocobo of finishing a FATE I will get a random crash. It seems to happen also when I click out of the windowed screen to another program, which I've never had a problem with until now.

My Setup
CPU: AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core 3.70 GHz
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon 7970 HD with drivers fully updated.
Ram: 8GB DDR 3