Memory Leak/Preformance Issue

[Mascis]

Had this problem since launch, after a few hours the game will start to freeze up and monsters will appear invisible (once it happened in the start of Turn 8 and the floor was invisible, and then in Turn 9 and the blue markings were gone), then it crashes. Since the patch it has been worse though, it used to take a long amount of playing the game at once to make it crash, now it's completely random had it happen in 30 mins and then not for 5 hours...

I had these problems too, here is what i did. Go to Documents> My Games> FFXIV ARR. Delete both FFXIV and FFXIV_BOOT, both CFG files, uninstall the client and reinstall. Worked for me.

[Takanashi_Rika]

I've been having odd graphical artifacts since the patch, most noticeably in Mor Dhona. It's like if you move your camera just right your UI flickers in and out and it's extremely annoying.

[Soda]

I've been having odd graphical artifacts since the patch, most noticeably in Mor Dhona. It's like if you move your camera just right your UI flickers in and out and it's extremely annoying.

This has been the main issue for me as well. Weird UI flickering in Mor Dhona and other high pop areas. Super annoying.

[RaniKsar]

I've had this issue since launch, and I've found a few ways to delay the crashes but not prevent them. It seems to happen after I've loaded/seen a lot of PCs and Mobs.

Ex: I've been playing over hour and port into the East Shroud for an Odin fate and crash. I re-launch and continue to complete the fate. As I'm leaving and I see more people rushing in late on the fate, I then begin to stutter and then crash again.

Once I begin to have my fps drops, a model occasionally loads in as invisible and I'm guaranteed a crash soon™ (usually changing zones/loading new models). This has gotten to the point that if I play during peak times, I crash at least once an hour.

So the only way to avoid crashing is to not change zones and load in new PCs and Mobs. I can easily AFK in my house and craft for hours without crashing.

Relevant pic of it happening in a dungeon:


edit:
i7 4770k
HD 7970 Ghz
Only happens in this game.

[JustaBard]

Exact thing is happening to me. After awhile, like 2 hours or so, in packed places like in Mor Dhona, Mines and Central Shroud my FPS drops to like 1-5 and then my client crashes. So frustrating when I'm hunting.

[EriksBlue]

I'm having the same issue also when teleporting my game will crash anywhere from 5-7 times a day. AN many times when arriving in a area my frames will drop to we're i'm looking at a still image of everything going on around me.

[Washuu]

I've been aggressively hunting since the patch, and I get this issue. It seems to be directly correlated to the amount of people I have seen.

I have an AMD Radeon HD 7970
Intel i5-2500k
16GB RAM
Catalyst 14.6 RC

[Dano]

i have a r9 290x and i've had the crashing experience on both 13.2 and 14.4 drivers.

the crash almost always happen in mor dhona where there's a lot of people, im pretty sure my GPU can handle the game fine even with crowded people but sometimes the crash just happens without any reason.

[Draythe]

I've been having this problem pretty much since launch. I mainly experience extreme frame rate slowdown when attempting to teleport from crowded areas like Revenant's Toll and Limsa Lominsa. Very rarely I'll make it to the zone I was teleporting to, but most of the time I either get stuck on a loading screen until I close the game manually or my client crashes.

Other times my frame rate drops when leaving Revenant's Toll for the other parts of Mor Dhona. If I go back the way I came I've noticed my frame rate returns to normal, but I usually have to restart my client in order to fix things. I also occasionally have weird problems in CT and CT2 where the game freezes almost to a halt as the boss dies, then returns to normal all at once after a few seconds. This usually results in a few (but not all) of the mobs in the areas up ahead becoming invisible as if the game can't load their models.

I'm using a Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 2GB video card and I've got 16GB of RAM. The game runs at anywhere from 40-80 FPS in most conditions on max settings. Because these problems only seem to occur after an hour or so of playing it does seem to me that it might be memory leak related, but it could also be something to do with my video card. I've heard a lot of users with Radeon cards report similar issues.

[Lyn]

I've been having this problem pretty much since launch. I mainly experience extreme frame rate slowdown when attempting to teleport from crowded areas like Revenant's Toll and Limsa Lominsa. Very rarely I'll make it to the zone I was teleporting to, but most of the time I either get stuck on a loading screen until I close the game manually or my client crashes.

Same thing here. Happened with a Radeon HD 5970 and it's still happening after upgrading to a Radeon R9 290X at the beginning of the year but less frequently.

Seems Radeon related.