DX11 Crashing?

[Akira]

i have the 980 and have only experianced one crash since start of EA

[alibutterfly]

I also have a GTX 970 and have been crashing in DX11. I was excited to try it out in DX11 as soon as early access was available, but within several hours of playing, my screen went totally black but the sound continued - nothing could recover my display, no matter what I tried - I couldn't alt/tab to another window, I couldn't ctrl/alt/del to bring up the task manager to close FFXIV, nothing was responsive. Ultimately I had to do a hard shutdown to fix it. After that I tried launching in DX11 again, but this time after a shorter window of time, the program errored out and closed on its own (at least it didn't lock my whole system this time).

I was running it on the most current drivers at the time - so I think that was 353.06 (a new driver has since come out which I just applied this morning but have not tried playing with yet - 353.30). I’m on Windows 8.1.

Dropping the client back down to DX9 has resulted in a stable experience again, so I'm pretty sure it's not my hardware (i.e., I'm pretty sure it's a driver issue).

Would sure be nice if there was a fix for this though :-( I want to enjoy the graphics at the highest level that my machine is capable of presenting - having just built my machine a few months ago, it should be no problem for the hardware to handle the requirements, but when the drivers won't play nice, well...

[Keefer]

Using GTX 960 and I have experienced two crashes so far. The game would just suddenly freeze and only a hard reset will work.

I'm using Windows 10 and a beta driver so that might have been the cause.

[RinaInverse]

I have an EVGA Nvidia 960 and when running DirectX 11 and closing the game, it never closes properly, stays in a black screen and I have to go to the task manager to force close the game. I get the "The program stopped working" notice.
Drivers are all updated, and I have no problems while I play, but I've been only able to close the game properly once. I'm on Windows 7 btw.

I wonder if it's really an Nvidia graphic cards thing, or something with the client itself.

[iced00d]

Just to add, same here on both desktop ( 2x - GTX 760 FTW) and my laptop (GTX 980m). Since using DX11, I'll crash randomly and/or while in dungeons.......

[Seig345]

I haven't had any crashes mid-game yet. That thing where the game "has stopped working" when I quit though, it's been doing that to me since well before the DX11 client hit.

[Chambers]

I've only crashed a couple times when taking random screenshots.

[Yeul]

It's not just Nvidia, i have an AMD 290x and just when i exit the game it goes to a black screen, but only in this time, not when i'm playing.

[Frost_Trunks]

but within several hours of playing, my screen went totally black but the sound continued - nothing could recover my display, no matter what I tried - I couldn't alt/tab to another window, I couldn't ctrl/alt/del to bring up the task manager to close FFXIV, nothing was responsive.

This is similar to what I have had happen. This has happened twice that I can remember, but I was always able to get out of the game. I have the most up to date drivers as of last night, although somebody mentioned new ones came out today.

driver version you are running. And do you have chrome running at the same time if so turn off hardware acceleration in chrome settings.

I will give this a try as well. I do usually have Chrome Open

[Endeleon]

I just switched back to DX9 because I always get that black screen when exiting DX11 client. The updated graphics ain't worth that bs.