Ran 3 more tests today. I tried running the game and the benchmark in borderless windowed mode and got similar errors. I also got farther than I ever had running the game in x9 windowed at 720p. Nonetheless the errors happened.



this is the error for the borderless window test. took 30 mins to get this to occur. it was X9 at 1080p. left the character idle in a bush in Gardania. not too populated camera facing a wall of shrubbery.



this is from the benchmark test. I got this one time and then every time after that I get nothing but a stutter and the game window closes and the benchmark option reappear. no errors. no black screen. just the window crashing the benchmark instructions popping back up.



this is from running the game for about 2-3hours in windowed mode at 720p. framerate was locked to 72 and i was actively playing the entire time. did the quest from 1st Ifrit fight all the way to meeting the grand companies. crashed upon reaching Tataru.

During none of these do i ever experience lag or stuttering. No audio desync or anything at all. The game just hangs and this error appears followed by me being forced to click OK and close the game.