FFXIV has stopped working

[Dzian]

In the last 2 or 3 days I seem to be experiencing a problem with my game client. in that every now and then it just closes suddenly and comes up with a prompt box saying ffxiv has stopped working.

it seems to be somehow related to instances. I left my client running all night and when I woke up still connected. ran an instanced dungeon fine. ran a second and ffxiv stopped working as soon as everyone hit ready on the duty finder and the screen went black.

logged back in ran the dungeon fine. queued another exact same thing happened. logged back in ran the dungeon and stood afk for an hour no problems. queued a dungeon and yup ffxiv has stopped working again.

this only started 2 or 3 days ago so I would guess its an issue with the most recent client update. I have checked windows to see if I've had any updates there in the last few days and the only updates there are for ms office so I can't imagine they would be the cause.

and my graphics drivers haven't changed or anything else either so as far as I can see the only thing that has changed is the client patch.

Running windows 10 pro 64 bit with a Nvidia gtx 870m graphics card.

[Alberos]

I also have same problem since long time ago (before patch 3.3). The game crashing *ONLY* when the queue for The Diadem (Normal) popped AND I'm in Miner class mining some aethersand. It's happened every time as far as I can remember. Not sure what happen if I'm not in miner class because the queue for this thing today is so long. So I go hitting rock while waiting for queue.

[Souljacker]

It's happening to me on my desktop which runs a radeon 290\vishera 8350 - since the 3.3. patch it will crash occasionally when I zone into a dungeon after using DF.

My AW15 laptop has a completely different issue - no crashes, but system and compressed memory spikes and the game lags HARD for a good 4-5 seconds until whatever is running in the background is done. This did not happen prior to the patch and I've changed nothing about my setup, including drivers, since I bought it. I updated nvidia's package to see if it helped, but the problem persists. It happens when nothing but the game is running - no browsers or other tools I might be using.

I see that SE has scheduled a hotfix so maybe they are aware of the issues?

[Drar]

I am also experiencing this since the last week or so. Seems to happen when I zone occasionally.

I'm running Windows 10 with GTX675MX.

[Lucas_Angelini]

I'm also having this problem. It's during gameplay or cutscenes.

[Judge_Xero]

For OP the issue is related to some nVidia laptop GPUs not liking the DX11 client. Until nVidia has a fix you may be stuck using the dx 9 client like me.