An unexpected error has occurred. Exiting Final Fantasy XIV.

[ReinaKousaka]

Like many others I can see on the forum, I started having this problem today, seemingly out of nowhere. I updated my graphics drivers yesterday and the game was working completely fine earlier this morning, but now whenever I log in to my character, I get this error:

An unexpected error has occurred. Exiting Final Fantasy XIV. 2018-12-24_23:25

ffxiv_dx11.exe+327D1C
ffxiv_dx11.exe+32502C
ffxiv_dx11.exe+32468E
ffxiv_dx11.exe+327821
ffxiv_dx11.exe+3686D6
ffxiv_dx11.exe+17AFB0
ffxiv_dx11.exe+179828
ffxiv_dx11.exe+19E1B2

Things I have tried:
- Changing compatibility mode of ffxivboot.exe (no change)
- Deleting local data (no change)
- Restarting PC (no change)
- Disabling full screen optimizations (no change)
- Switching to DX9 (this seems to work)

I did update some audio drivers, but I don't see how that would produce an error for DX11. Switching to DX9 has seemed to fix the issue so far, but it's a less than optimal gaming experience for sure. You can see what GPU I have, and I can't get above 35fps consistently on DX9.

I heard this was caused by overpopulated areas so I moved to my FC house after some fiddling and relaunched the game with DX11 back on. Crashed instantly.

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