Unable to Detect DirectX Device

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Taking a really quick glance at your DirectX file upload, your machine *could* be one of them NVidia Optimus machines, but it might be something else.

Have you been able to play any other games on this computer? Were you playing FFXI on this same computer years ago or a different computer?

Thanks!

[Jadus]

Taking a really quick glance at your DirectX file upload, your machine *could* be one of them NVidia Optimus machines, but it might be something else.

Have you been able to play any other games on this computer? Were you playing FFXI on this same computer years ago or a different computer?

Thanks!

I was able to play FFXI on this laptop with some difficulty. This laptop has an integrated video card and a discrete one. I had to disable the discrete one in order to get FFXI to play at all... it hung up on POL otherwise. I haven't tried that yet with 14.. I'll give that a shot.

Edit: Other games seem to run just fine. I've played Starcraft 2, World of Warcraft, and Star Wars: The Old Republic without issue. (I've been MMO hopping lately if you can't tell)

[Jadus]

I was able to play for about an hour without any DirectX errors after disabling my video card and using the laptop's integrated video card exclusively. It's kind of an irritating solution, but I suppose it will do for now unless anyone else has other suggestions

[ShadoweDaemun]

I was able to play for about an hour without any DirectX errors after disabling my video card and using the laptop's integrated video card exclusively. It's kind of an irritating solution, but I suppose it will do for now unless anyone else has other suggestions

How is the game graphics and performance on the integrated card? I may do this temporarily until 2.0 and/or a fix comes out.

[Jadus]

How is the game graphics and performance on the integrated card? I may do this temporarily until 2.0 and/or a fix comes out.

It isn't exactly beautiful, but it is, most importantly, stable. Just gotta remember to turn on your graphics card when you're done if you want to play something else.