GTX680 And Losing DirectX Device

[Vili]

Okay, did some more testing. Game ran fine with Depth of Field on and Ambient Occlusion Off. The moment I turn Ambient Occlusion On though, it doesn't take long for the game to crash.
With Ambient Occlusion Off my GPU laughs at how easy it is to render the game. With it on my game hovers around 45 but goes as low as 35 and as high as 60 depending on the area. Doesn't matter if I am on my 680 or 580.
Something I still need to try is put the game at 30FPS and see if it crashes with it on. Something I also noticed is I can be out in the middle of no where (was at Iron Lake doing some farming) and with AO on I never crashed once in a span of 8 hours moving doing Botany and being AFK at the Camp. Not more than 30 minutes in Ul'dah did the Game crash due to losing the DirectX Device. This was with AO On. Turn it off, no crashes.

So we definitely need a driver fix.

[Ratm3000]

I just installed my EVGA 680 today, its sad to have this game crash with DirectX Device error. SE needs to fix this asap, this card works beautiful in all other games except this one. It runs sooo smooth!
I had this happen with 8800 Ultra as well... SE?

[Vili]

I just installed my EVGA 680 today, its sad to have this game crash with DirectX Device error. SE needs to fix this asap, this card works beautiful in all other games except this one. It runs sooo smooth!
I had this happen with 8800 Ultra as well... SE?

Not really an SE issue, it is a Driver problem. For now, just turn off Ambient Occlusion. The issue has been reported and ManuelG has said the driver team will investigate the issue. As for myself, SLI seems to wreck havoc with this game. I crash no matter where I am or what I do. Drivers need major help.

[Ratm3000]

Not really an SE issue, it is a Driver problem. For now, just turn off Ambient Occlusion. The issue has been reported and ManuelG has said the driver team will investigate the issue. As for myself, SLI seems to wreck havoc with this game. I crash no matter where I am or what I do. Drivers need major help.

I don't get many crashes except for when I am in Uldah but I think I fixed it by turning off SYNC. Drivers still lacking but can't wait for the fixes cuz this card is bad ass.

[Vili]

I took my cards out and put my GTX580 back in. There is a new Beta driver that unifies all the GPU's but not going to retest until I know for sure it works. I would have to disconnect my card from my water cooling loop, be a hassle, so I will wait for others to report back here I hope.

[Ratm3000]

Its still a problem...I installed the beta drivers 301.24 and it worked great till I tried to start the game again...Going to see if maybe I need to reboot the PC every time I start FFXIV.

[ScorchyWorchy]

try disabling windows aero as well i went back to windows classic

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

This almost sounds like that.bad batch of 285s that released a few years ago.

[Noir]

Gtx 680 crashes my ffxiv with direct x unable to detect usually inside cities . Gridania and uldah. >< All settings on max. Tested both drivers, and both crash

[Noir]

Any official response from the dev team? Posted the same at nvidia.com and others have the same problem.