I started playing on PC at the beginning of Shadowbringers early access and I've been trying to solve a myriad of weird visual bugs the entire time with mixed success. However, for every problem I solve it seems like another immediately pops up or an old one unfixes itself. So far I've had to deal with a persistent fatal directx11 error within five minutes of logging in, screen dimming/flickering, black box artifacting, and most recently weird red/green/blue sphere artifacts flashing randomly across my screen.

I was able to fix the directx crashes and the screen dimming/flickering and black box artifacts by undervolting my GPU and switching to a more aggressive fan curve, but the colored sphere artifacts started happening yesterday and I've yet to find a way to fix them, and with their appearance the screen dimming/flickering also made a return. The only consistency I can find with this new round of visual bugs is that it seems to be worse when I'm in major cities or towns, especially emptier ones (for instance, my screen was almost strobing at some points when I was doing my weekly deliveries in an empty Tamamizu last night).

So far I've tried:
-Disabling all potential overlays I can find (steam/nvidia/discord/windows game bar/etc)
-Reinstalling the FFXIV client
-Running the client as an administrator
-Using different compatibility modes for FFXIV and disabling fullscreen optimizations
-Doing a safe mode uninstall with DDU and clean reinstall of my Nvidia drivers
-Using MSI Afterburner to undervolt my GPU down to my 1410 base clock and switch to a custom fan curve
-Switching to multiple different resolutions and frame rates
-Rolling back any recent Windows updates (although I'm not sure that Windows is actually letting me remove them, after I uninstall them and restart they're immediately in the list of updates I can remove again)

I'm kinda at my wit's end here and if the full fatal directx crashes return as well I'm afraid I'm gonna have to give up and go back to PS4, and I REALLY don't want to do that. I'm reluctant to believe it's a hardware error as this PC is less than two months old and I can't reproduce these errors in any other game or application, including hours of stress testing in Furmark and the actual Shadowbringers benchmark itself.

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this post, and here's hoping we can figure something out.

My system info:


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