6d error

[RiriRilu]

@Rhaervis: I am unsure what Nvidia Optimus is as it is not installed on my computer. Are you perhaps referring to the Nvidia Control Panel? If so, I have tried launching with the exe program set to Nvidia card as well as changing the global settings to run with the Nvidia card. Neither has shown any changes in regards to the 6d error though. Would you happen to have any further suggestions?

[Packetdancer]

@Rhaervis: I am unsure what Nvidia Optimus is as it is not installed on my computer. Are you perhaps referring to the Nvidia Control Panel? If so, I have tried launching with the exe program set to Nvidia card as well as changing the global settings to run with the Nvidia card. Neither has shown any changes in regards to the 6d error though. Would you happen to have any further suggestions?

Optimus isn't a thing you install separately; it's a feature of Nvidia's driver ecosystem for laptops where you have both a discrete laptop GPU and an integrated graphics chip. It allows a program that doesn't need the GPU to launch using integrated graphics (like Intel Iris) to save on power and improve battery life, while if a program says it needs graphical performance, it will launch using the discrete GPU (which chews more battery but actually gives you decent 3D graphics).

Optimus can happen automatically, by a program requesting it, or by user forcing it on. You can force it on from the Nvidia control panel—go to the application-specific settings for FFXIV and you'll have an option for 'Forced Rendering Mode'; setting that to 'High Performance' (if I remember the way it's labeled right, anyway) will force it to use the Nvidia GPU in all cases. Similarly, launching manually from Nvidia Experience will always put an application (and I believe any child processes) into High Performance mode for the duration of that run.

In all honesty, FFXIV should be automatically going into High Performance mode and thus switching to the Nvidia GPU, so I'll admit the possibility you were stuck using the Intel graphics chip didn't occur to me. If for some reason it isn't and 6d is caused by the computer using the integrated graphics chip, then launching from GeForce Experience (as happykoala suggests) would work, or just manually forcing the High Performance setting on in the Nvidia control panel (so you never have to think about it again and remember to launch from GeForce Experience).