Black screen on launch

[ArgoMarrus]

So, I bought the base game through Steam without the expansions. Installed fine, ran fine, no issues.

Liked the game enough that I bought Stormblood since it was on sale over the weekend. Now I can't play at all, the game starts, shows the SE logo, and then hangs on a black screen until I close it down. However, if I hit the X to close the game, the normal prompt comes up and asks if I want to exit FFXIV. Even does the little chime.


Here's a list of things I've already tried:

• Reinstalled the game (twice)
• Updated graphics drivers
• Turned DirectX11 off
• Deleted the settings folder in Documents
• Reinstalled Steam (because why not?)
• Turned Discord overlay off
• Cleared IE cache and settings (that was a solution someone else had for the launcher)
• Switched on Compatibility Mode
• Edited the .cfg file to turn off full screen mode
• Edited the .cfg file to turn off intro cinematic
• Edited the .cfg file to turn off/on version checking

At this point I'm at a loss. It worked fine until I applied the expansion. Any ideas?


Computer Specs:

Windows 10 Home 64-bit

CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ @ 2.8GHz

RAM: 16 GB @ 1197 MHz

Motherboard: Acer Challenger2_SKS

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

Hard Drive: 931GB SATA ( 672GB free space)