Quote Originally Posted by Gortys View Post
I can say I had a similar issue as they describe and it turned out that my motherboard, Asus, had installed their own sound app and drivers (Sonic Sound). I'm typically pretty picky about what I allow installed, but I wanted to try them. Once I uninstalled this additional sound control app the game worked fine.
And it may not be sound - it may other apps that are "fighting" for control and causing issues.
Sonic Sound utilises Nahimic as its mixing engine and nahimic happens to have an Overlay server that quite commonly breaks things, but mid last year asus released a version of sonic sound that was just unstable all on its own due to a flaw in the APO (Audiodevprops2.dll crashes).

unfortunately, the ffxiv crash handler is archaic and many of the errors thrown are post-event, so you can have the game mentioniing a fatal graphics error occured but it was actually the result of plugging in your wired headphones 15 minutes earlier.