DX11.exe errors that I cannot fix, been stumped for months

[Naisu]

You're telling me lol. I completely reinstalled windows and the game the other night and still get them, been dealing with this for literal months. So close to just selling my PC and getting a new one lmao

So I finally cracked down on my issue, and it's worth a shot for you to try. FFXIV is the first game where my CPU has way less work than my GPU and it will just clock super high when in limsa or any city state while the GPU is rendering everything. There's a point where it hits an instability from automatically boosting while the temps and workload is low, the clock speed is nearly max.

I'm unsure if Intel has a desktop counterpart but I manually clocked my CPU to its base speed with a decent voltage and I have not had a single crash since I've done this. Try researching into manual clocking your 10850k, if there's a way to turn off the boost I'd start there at least.

[Mistrin]

You're telling me lol. I completely reinstalled windows and the game the other night and still get them, been dealing with this for literal months. So close to just selling my PC and getting a new one lmao

This might sound a little silly to ask, but you're using just the regular GPU drivers? If you are, can you try the Studio drivers (if you're still using the 3080 that you've posted originally)? There's something that windows doesn't like between Nvidia's and AMD's regular drivers and how SE has DirectX (9 and 11 both can have issues, but 9 is less frequent) implemented in the game.

So I finally cracked down on my issue, and it's worth a shot for you to try. FFXIV is the first game where my CPU has way less work than my GPU and it will just clock super high when in limsa or any city state while the GPU is rendering everything. There's a point where it hits an instability from automatically boosting while the temps and workload is low, the clock speed is nearly max.

I'm unsure if Intel has a desktop counterpart but I manually clocked my CPU to its base speed with a decent voltage and I have not had a single crash since I've done this. Try researching into manual clocking your 10850k, if there's a way to turn off the boost I'd start there at least.

Unironically, this was one thing i tried and i still kept crashing (Ryzen 7 3700x). I get WHEA logger errors for overclocking, which i thought was being caused by my CPU just doing it's normal boosting, but i'm fairly positive it's how SE has DirectX implemented in the game that's causing a conflict with drivers and how Windows wants to handle it. I was able to recover from a crash (by some luck with using windows GPU driver refresh key combo) and it showed a driver timeout error from AMD with also getting a DirectX fatal error from FF14, and didn't show a WHEA logger error for overclocking. I swapped to from AMD's regular driver at current revision (21.7.1) to AMD's pro drivers (content creators drivers, version 21.6.1) and i flickered a couple of times with complete recovery each time without my own intervention, and haven't had any DirectX fatal errors or driver timeouts.

[Naisu]

Unironically, this was one thing i tried and i still kept crashing (Ryzen 7 3700x).

Did you manually overclock with Ryzen Master or in the BIOS? BIOS settings weren't getting along with what I was doing, but I set my Ryzen 3600 to 3.6 GHz and 1.2V and I have a launch chip. (forewarning to anyone reading misguided, don't copy these settings unless you're also using Ryzen 3000 series though it is still possible to be unstable)

[Zenith_Ultra]

Hi guys, I had this problem as well and spent ages going through Google to find solutions from changing graphic settings, game window size and other nonsense. It kept happening to me when I reached Sea of Clouds area and couldn't progress the MSQ any more...so completely game breaking.

This is how I fixed it. I used a program called Revo Uninstaller to remove the game, you have an option to clear out everything in the registry related to the game. After that I also used CCleaner free version since I saw it mentioned just in case there was a problem elsewhere. I noticed it cleaned some stuff around .net framework but honestly I don't think this was the issue. After that, just reboot and downloaded, installed the game. Now everything is fine.

I'm on a Ryzen 7 5800x, rog strix 3070, 32gb ram etc. My ram is 3666mhz. My gcard is an overclocked model by default. My Cpu does cpu boost so it's overlocking. I say this because people mention overlocking and to me this seems like a myth.

So I tried your method and I've had smooth sailing thus far. I hope the errors NEVER show up again but nonetheless THANK YOU!!!

[Zenith_Ultra]

Update: I picked up a quest in Kugane where a girl apparently needs me to save her father and when I reached the cutscene where we board an airship to head towards a HUGE Garlean Ship the game closed on me. And since after that I can't get pass the loading screen after choosing my character -.- . This is getting HIGHLY INFURIATING right now.

[Rinpoko]

Hi, sorry for the translated text.
I haven't had a problem for 3 weeks by chance.
I've tried 3 things now

GPU minimum clock -> increase to 1500MHz
Automatic Windows date setting -> turn off, check occasionally
Windows UPDATE -> turn off or check before playing

PC: Ryzen 5600X 4.8GHz, DDR4-4000 CL16 32GB, Liquid Devil 6800XT 2500MHz, 2924x1224 144Hz Window Mode, Win10 21H1

[Zenith_Ultra]

When you say minimum clock do you mean the Cor Clock? I've been trying to underclock using the msi Afterburner. I'm literally out of options.

[Zenith_Ultra]

When you say minimum clock do you mean the Cor Clock? I've been trying to underclock using the msi Afterburner. I'm literally out of options.

Also all my Windows Update Settings are off and I've now paused any incoming updates until December.

[Zenith_Ultra]

Device name DESKTOP-NEOJ3T9
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.21 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)
Device ID A8433315-F2B3-491A-A481-4CFAAD80EE61
Product ID 00325-81250-65641-AAOEM
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display


Edition Windows 10 Home
Version 21H1
Installed on ‎6/‎10/‎2021
OS build 19043.1320
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3920.0

[Rinpoko]

When you say minimum clock do you mean the Cor Clock? I've been trying to underclock using the msi Afterburner. I'm literally out of options.

Yes, but some models are locked
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