Quote Originally Posted by Blood-Wolfe View Post
I appreciate the replies but I've spent way too much time troubleshooting and have already tried everything both have suggested, and some of those are my defaults like no overlays, and I don't OC. Of all my testing this weekend, it seems to only happen in Stormblood zones meaning it is a Square Enix issue and not my computer. My computer was built by me and only 3 months ago and has no integrated/onboard GPU, and I don't use a multi-monitor setup (I stated I have a single 3440x1440 ultrawide) and power cycling everything was already done at the start of my troubleshooting.
Then i guess there is a faulty hardware component in your computer. It can be the memory or CPU or the motherboard. My first rig had that problem too with the direct x error. Then i've found out that the CPU had propably a defect in the CPU cache. I RMA'd my computer, got a new one and the problem is fixed and occurs only randomly when i watch videos on my second monitor.

FF14 is very unusual when it comes to hardware utilization. When i disable the DOCP/XMP profile then the performance impact is relatively huge and i get a 10% performance hit. This is not very common that an application depends so strong on memory bandwith. I guess that triggers some errors in the hardware. The FF14 benchmarks are IMHO also very good stability test utilities.

Cheers