Drivers constantly crashing.

[C-croft]

There are good 700 Watt PSU's and there are bad 700 Watt PSUs. Bad 700 Watt PSU's can only hold 550ish Watts. Good 700 Watt ( Good long lasting parts that won't break easily) can easily handle 1 GTX 650.

I know this because of multiple failure PSU products that are cheap.. Cheap doesn't always mean good XD.

Using a calculator for wattage, I put some crazy stuff into the equation and even with 30% capacitor aging, as well as maxed out cpu and a gtx 670, it still caluclates to 722w. A 1200w should be plenty. Plus no one has specified exactly what kind of crash they are having. I found a program online that tells me what program has focus and was finding things like Apple cloud and citrix receiver were pulling me from the game to the desktop. The first place I would check is to see what the error states in computer management, in the event logs assuming it doesn't tell you why it crashed. Also too aggressive of an overclock can do this as well.

[Starlord]

Using a calculator for wattage, I put some crazy stuff into the equation and even with 30% capacitor aging, as well as maxed out cpu and a gtx 670, it still caluclates to 722w. A 1200w should be plenty. Plus no one has specified exactly what kind of crash they are having. I found a program online that tells me what program has focus and was finding things like Apple cloud and citrix receiver were pulling me from the game to the desktop. The first place I would check is to see what the error states in computer management, in the event logs assuming it doesn't tell you why it crashed. Also too aggressive of an overclock can do this as well.

Well, naturally you want to have a 100-200 watt cushion to what your whole computer can handle.

1200 watts is plenty and you can never go wrong with more watts :P, good for when you want to upgrade. However, a Good 900 Watt (Gold) will be decent enough for the card + computer .

[C-croft]

Well, naturally you want to have a 100-200 watt cushion to what your whole computer can handle.

1200 watts is plenty and you can never go wrong with more watts :P, good for when you want to upgrade. However, a Good 900 Watt (Gold) will be decent enough for the card + computer .

Even though a 1200w should be plenty, it also depends on the design of the PSU. Is it a single rail, multi-rail... model# would be helpful. But with that said, I highly doubt the PSU is the main issue. Although the only way to tell is to have it tested.

[Starlord]

Even though a 1200w should be plenty, it also depends on the design of the PSU. Is it a single rail, multi-rail... model# would be helpful. But with that said, I highly doubt the PSU is the main issue. Although the only way to tell is to have it tested.

True, I agree when there is a hardware problem, it's sometimes hard to tell what the problem is exactly without a deeper analysis.

[Jmeat]

My wife and I have been having the exact same issues since 2.2, day one. We both have identical rigs (nVidia GTX 470). Display driver will stop responding a couple times a day while playing. Also if we both have the client up for a long time (8hrs or so) we'll randomly get frame drops. I've tried so many drivers. Annoying.

[Ranulf]

Just did WP with my friends and crashed 7 times, lol. @_@;

My friend who has the same computer as I do say it's something with the patch more likely. :S

[Vuhad]

If your drivers are crashing, DON'T use the very latest ones released by Nvidia. Go direct to the manufacturer of your particular graphics card and use the latest drivers they provide for your model.

For example, i have a pair of MSI Twin Frozr OC GTX 760s. The only drivers which dont crash are those released by MSI on their website. Using any version of the generic drivers released by Nvidia causes constant crashing in FFXIV and other games, to the point that they're unplayable.

The manufacturer drivers are tested with your specific card, so they're almost guaranteed to be fine. I believe they're actually tweaked for your specific card too, with regards to voltage settings etc. That's particularly the case if your card came overclocked out of the box like mine. Which would be why MSI's latest driver version is only 331.65.

[Kewitt]

Had issues of it locking up with my 780, then for that one place I turn graphic down to min for laptop runs great. Exit turn back up..

[Hulft]

There was a bunch of people in the past with problems regarding drives to play XIV (Other games usually works just fine) I've been stuck on the Nvidia Beta driver they did for BF4 because it was the only only which worked for me. I did tryed to update many many times in the past but only the one I'm using it right now does not crash or gives me problems. I think they should take a closer look on this driver stuff.

[Ranulf]

I've done that, and even on lowest settings, it crashes. I went to Gigabyte's site and downloaded the last driver they provided. We'll see what happens.