FFXIV Freezing PC

[McHondy]

After 5-30 min playing the game just freezes the screen, no BSOD or CTD. Only way to get out of it is to hold the power button for 4 seconds.

It happens in Windowed, Borderless, and full screen and both on DX 9 and DX 11. Only thing I can see is that it takes longer to crash on low graphics setting. Also tried to shutdown all other programs that was running and it had no effect.

This is a new high end PC and this is the only of the 3 games on it this far doing this, Destiny 2 and The division is both running fine on max settings on it. And its has updated windows 10 and GPU drivers.

And its not a heat problem, lowest recorded GPU temp when it crashed was 56 C.

This PC is 14 days old :

I7-8700K
1080Ti
32 GB ram

So it was a short try to try and join this game.. I'm done experimenting with settings to get it to run.

[Xeon]

You need to probably disable hyperthreading in your BIOS, or set core affinity in your task manager. When you do so, you will need to disable 6 of them. It may work with just disabling 4, but anything over 8 real or virtual cores seems to cause some problems for alot of folks.

Disable cores 1,3,5,7,9.11

I dont believe you can disable individual cores in BIOS, but disabling HT or hyperthreading will disable the cores listed above. Do this, try again, and post back.

[cheolsu]

are you changing audio sources--for example, switching from speakers to headphones. that'll usually crash the game