On talking to Biggs outside the Skysteel Manufactory in the MSQ "New Winds, Old Friends, he says his first line, whereafter loading commences. For some reason, I keep getting a crash, and message saying "an unexpected error has occurred. exiting final fantasy xiv.(17)". As far as I can tell, this is the only place i get this error.

I have tried creating a new character, which worked fine, and other cutscenes also work fine. I have tried everything. Updating drivers, reinstalling the game, tried different graphics settings, both directX 9 and 11, updating directX, windowed and fullscreen mode, turning off sound, deleting my log file in the FFXIV folder, and more. I keep getting the crash.

This is keeping me from continuing the MSQ, so it is quite a problem, as I really want to play this game again after a few months of break. I am currently trying to reinstall the game again to a different drive, and will update this post with the big log file when the installation is complete.