Quote Originally Posted by Illya View Post
My search for a fix to the crashing of the DX11 client on my GTX 970 and then 980 Ti after I upgraded led me first to this Reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ur_game_keeps/

Unfortunately at first, trying the steps did not appear to fix the crashing. This Reddit post is not very clear on what it means by disabling applications which create an overlay, so I will be absolutely clear on this point.

You cannot just disable the overlay by making it not appear over the game. You must completely exit the offending application, it cannot be running in the background at all.
I'll add, It's NOT just MSI Afterburner, it's also programs like Raptr, nVidia Experience, OBS and various video recording software.

The reason there-in is because they hook into the video buffer. The crash itself is caused by the game exiting before the hook is released by the software. Such is life.

I could readily replicate the crash with Afterburner every time under DX9 because that app is pretty sloppy at cleaning up after itself, so exiting FFXIV while the video recording is still buffered, would crash it easily.

OBS and such you have to make sure you hit STOP and wait about 30 seconds before you exit. That is so the capture layer has enough time to finish writing out the buffer.