I have managed to get to the point of getting the game to start, I now have the mouse pointer and sound on the main screen but the main screen is black.

To get to this point I went into FFXIV install directory and made the .exe in the boot folder "run as admin".

I feel I am getting closer to getting this to work but I am also stumped as my GPU is up to date. It is possibly a DirectX problem, but I have no idea how to add older DX files to a DX12 win10 as every .exe I download results in windows saying "You have a more recent version"

Anyone can put some technical info my way or a fix?