Thread: Constant black screens that led to a big crash also huge fps drop after patch 4.4

So, i've been running multiple tests to try to find a solution to this problem

I tried to play the game in Dx9 - It didnt work

I tried Dx9 with everything turned off, even the shadows - It didnt work it was still crashing a lot

I tried Dx9 with everything off and full screen cause i saw people saying thats what worked for them - It didnt work for me

I updated my graphics card drivers - It didnt work

I downgraded my graphics card drivers - It didnt work

I re-downloaded FFXIV - It didnt work

So in the end i lost all my weekend trying to find a solution to this, and i gave up and decided to go back to Windows 10

I installed Windows 10 - It was still crashing

I updated my W10 to the very last update available - It worked

So that was the solution and i lost all my weekend trying to find it, hopefully it wont crash again and i will be able to raid peacefully, sadly i dont believe in Windows 10 anymore, so probably next update will make everything crash again (i hope not).

Thank you for the update WolfRawr.

I'm sorry you lost so much time, I didn't think to switch back to Windows 10 since it caused problems before.

Originally Posted by Sky3zdalimit

At this point I don't even think the person in tech support that's answering have any ideas besides the standard please do this. I've replied to them way before some of the replies yesterday and did not get a response back. Especially trying all the things that were suggested. Feels like they're cherry picking thread/replies and now ignoring me because they have no more suggestions. x___x This is kind of frustrating. I've never had something like this happened ever since the launch of 2.0.

I apologize for not answering you sooner, we can't proved support on the weekends so some threads do not get responded to for a few days.

This thread will be moved to the 'Closed Concerns' subforum as the issue has been resolved.

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