"FFXIV Has Stopped Working"

[wiregrind]

I had the same "Stopped working" error after the patch. Similar to the posters, I pretty much tried everything to debug, including going so far as upgrading from Win7 to Win81, but none of that fixed the issue.

I did stumble upon a fix the worked for me to let FFXIV to get past the error-- having Diablo3 running when starting FFXIV. If I start D3 then alt-tab and launch FFXIV it seems to load fine. If D3 is not running it will crash. I suspect you can close D3 once you make it past the login screen to save resources. Another application that initializes the 3D video card before launching FFXIV might work too. I am using a ATI Radeon HD 6950.

I also temporary fixed this problem by using the method as similar as yours. For my case, I need to make sure my laptop is offline when I turn on my laptop, need windows media players/youtube running (and must have sounds come out from you laptop/headphone LOL!) while starting FFXIV. If I don't do these before starting FFXIV, the game client sure will crash.

This sounds very weird right? VERY weird!

When leaving open a 3D game in the background (I used gunman clive since I was hoping it didn't stress my computer too much) FFXIV still crashed. The same when I left a movie open in the background to see if it worked, it also crashed.
I'm not sure how you're making this work but I've not been able to play for some time already and my subscription is running out

[Vhex]

Sadly that won't work either.

I don't get it.. Only happens on FFXIV..

Maybe gettting SSD will fix it?