Randomly crashing game.. GTX 970

[Shinsei]

Isn't Windows Firewall on by default on a fresh install? It blocks all kinds of stuff at first. Just saying... might be right under your nose and don't even know it.

You can get a handy utility called TinyWall that makes it pretty easy to tweak/maintain Windows Firewall. (link is to cnet page about it). Note it isn't a firewall itself, just a utility to manage the Windows Firewall rules. Could try turning of Defender too I guess... or create exceptions for XIV executables via the Tools menu maybe.

Your Windows/directx logs may help shed more light on what could be going on under the hood otherwise. You can run eventvwr.msc to get to the Windows logs. Think the dxerror.log is only generated when problems are found, so not seeing anything that looks like it on my system. May be in the root of your system drive, the Windows folder, or even under a sub-folder there labeled simply "log" or "logs".

Thanks, I looked nothing out of the ordinary. Windows Firewall has FFXIV allowed.

[Shinsei]

In case anyone was interested..



On the latest drivers, still same issue. I'm going to try to do some RAM configuration, and see if that works, if not I have one other solution..wish me luck

[Shinsei]

So... i just wanted to let everyone know after hours of investigation, I think I finally figured it out.

I don't think I've ever mentioned I'm using Windows 8.1 Embedded. Which is more then likely what is causing my issues. I've changed the compatibility mode of ffxivboot.exe to Windows 8, and I haven't crashed in hours.. will post back if it's not fixed. Either way .. I don't have any other issues with anything else, other then FFXIV. So in conclusion I believe the way FFXIV is coded, it causes this crash.

Edit: nvm crashed again after hours.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

open
Control Panel\System and Security\Action Center\Problem Reporting Settings

and set it to 'Ask me before checking for solutions'

this will add additional info to the crash window.