Crashing, lack of good tech info

[Amnmaat]

Try this:

1. Uninstall the .exe nvidia driver setup file (the file that installs your nvidia driver)
2. Go into Device manager (use windows search)
3. Find your nvidia GPU there and "uninstall" (do not disable), it might ask you if you want to uninstall the driver and check it.
4. Restart computer
5. Go to nvidia site to download the .exe driver setup file

This solved it for me a few days ago.

[Bd09live]

did those step still crashing.

[Amnmaat]

Yeah at this point I would do a full game reinstall. As painful as it is-it's the only way to really rule out corrupt files. It definitely doesn't sound like it's a GPU related issue.

Question, do you overclock your RAM? An unstable RAM overclock can cause a lot of processing issues when running games.

[Bd09live]

nope, and ive reinstalled 3 times so far dealing with crashes. If its corrupt files then i want to know whats corrupting them so i dont have to keep reinstalling the game.

[Amnmaat]

interesting. Ok do this, when you're playing the game have your task manager open and see what your % usage is like for CPU, RAM, GPU, etc. Kinda hard to keep track if you don't have a second monitor though.

If you don't have a second monitor I recommend downloading MSI Afterburner which lets you see track things such as CPU, RAM, and GPU usage. My guess is that you're hitting some kind of RAM cap or storage cap usage cap.

Furthermore, check your windows power settings and make sure it's set to "High performance."
Also in your nvidia control panel you might want to set your power option there to high performance under "3D settings"

[Bd09live]

i thought it was capping or overheating so i had task manager up on my 2nd screen to see what happens when it crashes. %s werent that high, temp was fine. everything seemed normal. GPU did spike right as crash happened, going to test out later if thats cause it was full screened and it was force closing or what caused that spike as it crashed. (going to try borderless windows later, cause im tired of running the entire mt. gulg to see if it works...so taking a break)

[Ronduwil]

Out of all the games i have played, ff seems to be the only one where if you have a problem the only answers I could find was reinstalling the whole game or nothing at all.

also, why does it crash in the most random of places? was going good, then after leaving a random cutscene into a fight...crash.

If your drivers are up to date and your CPU and graphics card fall within the supported specs, my guess is that your computer is overheating. I don't know what kind of set up you have, but this could be due to clogged vents and fans. If my computer were overheating like this, I would open it up and blow canned air through all its fans in an area where I don't mind blowing a ton of dust. I would even remove the graphics card to make sure I could thoroughly dust it.

[Amnmaat]

Sounds good. It all has the hallmarks of a GPU driver issue at the end of the day. When you're back to your truobleshooting I would unistall the GPU driver again, restart computer and install an older driver, maybe even 3-4 months old driver. Sometimes there are just some weird/specific issues which nvidia hasn't accounted for yet in their latest drivers.

Another thing I would try is closing as many applications/programs as possible to rule out conflicts there.

[Amnmaat]

If your drivers are up to date and your CPU and graphics card fall within the supported specs, my guess is that your computer is overheating. I don't know what kind of set up you have, but this could be due to clogged vents and fans. If my computer were overheating like this, I would open it up and blow canned air through all its fans in an area where I don't mind blowing a ton of dust. I would even remove the graphics card to make sure I could thoroughly dust it.

Good suggestion as well; definitely worth downloading MSI afterburner or HWMonitor to keep track of temps while in full screen.

[Bd09live]

so got past that fustrating final boss crash. still not sure what was causing it, could of been dx11, full screen or something graphical. didnt want to test anything by itself, will do if i crash somewhere were its not annoying to get back to. but i lowered my settings by one (standard desktop), turned dx 11 off and went boarderless window. Got past that boss, and able to move on with MSQ

Downloaded MSI afterburner, and everything seemed stable while i was doing dungeon. Thanks though for all the suggestions, from both you guys and from my guild who was also trying to figure this out.