Quote Originally Posted by Dzian View Post
I found a few threads about this occurring on steam forums though many were related to different games. But you might have some luck if you go Into the final fantasy xiv folder. Right click the game open it's properties and disable Windows game optimizations.
Thanks for the reply Dzian, unfortunately that didn't make a change either. My game boots up and dies right before my characters lode in on the character selection screen. Already tried to delete local character files since that's where it always crashes but no luck with that either.