"Timed out while waiting for FFXIV to shut down."

[Utsukushii]

OK as it hasn't been posted yet, a detailed explanation of what happens

Double click the FFXIV launch icon, ffxivboot.exe starts up, The small black FFXIV box pops up to show it's loading for about 5 seconds, it then goes into blue and displays the boot version in top left and says "checking version...", this dialog lasts for about 8 seconds with the music playing as it should, then suddenly the music will stop for about 3 seconds the box returns to black then a new box pops up in front of it.

In the title bar of this box it says ffxivlogin

then underneath shows the text Timed out while waiting for FFXIV to shut down.

with only the windows "OK" button to click, when the button is clicked both the 2 boxes stay on screen and the processes (both ffxivlogin.exe and ffxivboot.exe) has to be ended by right clicking it on the windows task bar and clicking close or shutting it down through the task manager.

Unfortunately the event viewer isn't recording this as any kind of error. The ffxiv process is most definitely not running whilst trying this too.


Also the error occurs for example if i turn the system on leave it idle (not touching/loading anything) for say 30 minutes then return and try load FFXIV. Or in the case that i load a different say say WoW talk to friends for 5 minutes or so, close as normal then try load FFXIV.

I'm kinda thinking it's some sort of programing issue as others are having the same problem
Sorry for the wall of text lol, any more suggestions you may think of are more thank welcomed and thanks so much for your time and brain power so far

EDIT: If it helps at all logging off my windows user name then signing back in doesn't work, it has to be a full system restart. Also the boot details shows "Boot Version: 2010.09.18.0000" Maybe that's an issue? Or the same for everyone? again thanks x