Well, that driver and an attempt to play scored me a Windows bluescreen! Which is the second time Final Fantasy has done that - not to blame FF exclusively but my computer has never had issues like this with anything else. All I had done was popped open task manager when the game was logging me in.
I ran the appropriate Scan and Repair after that, and I'm going to try and boot it again. After that I guess update to the most current driver, since that was the only new element I can place.

My GPU may or may not be to blame in of itself, but I also don't like the fact it NEVER had issues before and recently has had 2 incidences/any issues it's EVER shown have been with Final Fantasy.
My only other idea is to completely remove my virus protector, on the off chance my specific one and FF14 don't agree at all, but that needs to be remedied if so. \: I'm kind of grasping at straws atm.