Consistent complete game freezing

[Pixieish]

For some inexplicable reason, my computer's been getting killed by FF14 as I try to wander around Aleport. After 5-15 minutes the game will suddenly freeze, the sound stutters, the only option available is to hard restart. It won't even give me a BSOD so that I can have some hint as to what happened.

I have tried both Skyrim and Shogun 2 to see if I could somehow replicate this issue, though nothing yet, so far. The computer itself seems rather stable, with temperatures running at acceptable limits.

I've also tried lowering graphics settings, running around with even all shadows disabled, and still the game seems to run quite nicely until it dies.

I have even tried the full reinstall, and still, no luck.

Even more perplexing is that I haven't been having these issues until I reached Gridania (occassional driver issues, it seemed, though nothing too bad), and then even worse at Aleport. I figure on heading back to Uldah to see if, in fact, that region is somehow better off.

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[Pixieish]

It seems that having the game just running in the background doesn't crash it. (Will need to test out the theory more.)

Running around in Western Thanalan, however, does result in complete system issues. There is the possibility that a windows update from a couple of days ago may have changed matters, but not quite sure how.