Unable to launch FF14 starting a few hours ago.

[twocows]

Hello,

I was able to launch the game with no issues as recently as this morning. However, starting a couple hours ago, it only launches approximately 1 time in 10 once I press "launch" in the launcher. Instead, I usually get an error popup, and an error similar to the following appears in the Windows event viewer afterward:

Faulting application name: ffxiv_dx11.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x60c8ec2a
Faulting module name: ffxiv_dx11.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x60c8ec2a
Exception code: 0xc000041d
Fault offset: 0x00000000000590e3
Faulting process id: 0x1d30
Faulting application start time: 0x01d779b7ed08e65c
Faulting application path: E:\Applications\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\game\ffxiv_dx11.exe
Faulting module path: E:\Applications\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\game\ffxiv_dx11.exe
Report Id: 2f939174-bac9-45fe-a331-4de71aa15df9
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID:

I have tried the following:

• Restarted my computer
• Reset game settings from the launcher
• Run game in DX9 mode
• Set in-game settings to almost minimum (all graphical frills except borderless window turned to minimum or disabled)

None of these seem to have fixed the issue, it still only launches rarely. The only change I can think of that I made since this morning and now is that I installed VMware Workstation Player, but I can't imagine why that would affect anything. Any ideas would be helpful.

[twocows]

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[twocows]

If anyone finds this thread on Google several years from now, I think I found the problem. Tonight it wouldn't launch for like 30 attempts, so I randomly tried disabling all VMware related services, since that was the only thing I did between when it wasn't working and when it was. Sure enough, game launched immediately. Seems like there may be a conflict with VMware and FF14. No need to fully uninstall VMware, just open up task manager, go to the services tab, and right click stop VMAuthdService VMnetDHCP VMUSBArbService and VMware NAT Service. It's probably specifically one of those and not all four, but I didn't bother narrowing it down because I don't care. I'll probably just uninstall VMware later, I don't use it that frequently.

EDIT: It's SPECIFICALLY the VMUSBArbService.

[Mistrin]

If anyone finds this thread on Google several years from now, I think I found the problem. Tonight it wouldn't launch for like 30 attempts, so I randomly tried disabling all VMware related services, since that was the only thing I did between when it wasn't working and when it was. Sure enough, game launched immediately. Seems like there may be a conflict with VMware and FF14. No need to fully uninstall VMware, just open up task manager, go to the services tab, and right click stop VMAuthdService VMnetDHCP VMUSBArbService and VMware NAT Service. It's probably specifically one of those and not all four, but I didn't bother narrowing it down because I don't care. I'll probably just uninstall VMware later, I don't use it that frequently.

It's not necessarily any VMware that's the issue, it's something in Windows in general. I haven't been able to specifically find the root cause, but there's something that FF14 does that Windows 10 really doesn't like, to the point it causes a lot of driver error and DirectX 11 (sometimes Dx9 too) errors. In your case, there's something shared between VMware and FF14 that causes a conflict within Windows.