Chiming in with yet another DirectX problem. The one time I managed to get an error that wasn't Windows 10 unhelpfully telling me FFXIV was having problems and needed to quit, I got the following error codes:



The game has been unstable in both DirectX9 and DirectX11 flavors. It seems to be worst for me in cities-- I can roll for hours out in the world and I (cross my fingers) haven't had a problem with doing duties and other instanced content yet, but I'll be walking down the street in one of the cities and sometimes crash multiple times in a row before I make it to the other end of the road. When the DirectX crash happens is fairly random, but it especially seems to hate the in-game appearance customization screen, transitioning in or out of in-city cutscenes, and summoning my retainer. There are no warning graphical glitches or any kind of lag or framerate issues before the thing just quits and goes to black. I've done the dance with rolling back the graphics settings and making sure my card has the latest drivers, as well as some of the more unconventional fixes suggested here and elsewhere, but nothing seems to work for long.

I'm doing a fresh install to see if I just got unlucky with a corrupted file somewhere, but somebody is really sleeping on the job in the QA department for letting this bug drag on for so long. Some of the threads reporting this problem are over a year old!