Black Shroud DX Error (Possible Fix)

[Saphiria]

I have seen quite a few posts about this but mostly with people saying to lower the settings in their config or disabling DWM. I have tried each of these options with no fix in sight.

Tonight I made a few changes with my settings and tested a few things and found one simple setting that solved my issue. Now I'm not guaranteeing this will work for everyone but it is certainly another option to add the the pile.

I have 2 Sapphire Radeon HD 6870's in X-fire. Plenty of power to handle the graphics I can assure you. The one setting that I changed that by default CCC had set was the Tessellation setting. I had it set to use the AMD optimized tessellation setting due to FFXIV's lack of graphic options. Upon changing this to "Application Controlled" I was able to get play throughout the Shroud for approximately 2 hours without a single line across my screen. I even tested this with my settings back maxed out again and not a single issue. Make sure if you are using a Radeon card that you have everything under the "Gaming > 3D Application Settings" set to 'Use application settings.' I also have my Catalyst AI set to Performance over quality.
I would say it never hurts to give anything a try at least once.

System Build:
CPU: i7 950 3.06Ghz OC to 4.0Ghz Corsair H70 Liquid Cooled
Memory: 12GB G Skill Ripjaw DDR3 1600Mhz
HD: 2x Velociraptor 10k RPM on Raid0
Video: 2x Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 on Crossfire OC 1000/1250
PSU: 1000w Zalman

Config Settings:
Display Mode: Windowed and Full Screen
Window Size: 1680x1050
Multisampling: 8xQ MSAA
General Drawing Quality: 8 (Standard)
General Background Drawing Quality: 5 (High)
Shadow Quality: Lowest
Ambient Occlusion: No
Depth of Field: No
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: Highest

[origamikitsune]

Interesting find! Its good to know there may be a work around. I don't use ATI cards, so I don't have any way to test and fiddle, but I'll certainly add this to my personal knowledge base. I really wonder if the mods read these posts to monitor trends and pass the info to the dev team. Finding a specific setting that fixes an issue as common as the frequent black shroud crashes is the sort of thing that could seriously help them nail down errors in the coding.

[Coldfire]

There's no tesselation in this game. SE fixed the crashes in shroud today (not having them anymore either).

[origamikitsune]

Aroo? They ninja fix it? I don't remember seeing any notes about it.

[Coldfire]

Did they ever tell us about stability fixes or issues? :P

[origamikitsune]

My theory that if is someone says, "Oh, shit, you mean this was caused by having an extra ( in one line?!?" then they don't tell us about it. XD

Good to know though!

[Saphiria]

I guess you would be right that Tessellation would not be the fix considering tessellation is a DX11 feature and FFXIV is a DX9 game. Oh well it was nice to dream that I found the magic button haha.

Thanks for the heads up