Quote Originally Posted by Corpzey View Post
yeah it worked for a short period my fix was a simple windows update but now its back again im really hoping this gets attention because this is no small issue first it was audio and now graphics driver then it was a windows update that fixed it now its acting up again i really don't think this has to do with the hardware we use i have a feeling its just with the new update its conflicting with files which as gamers we can only do so much to fix are issues at this rate i feel the fix should be coming from them over us with how persistent this problem has become for people
It has nothing to do with the hardware, there are so many times I see people say that it's your hardware and that there's nothing wrong with the software because "It works for me", which is the dumbest argument anyone can use when trying to figure out issues with the software. It's not that your hardware is causing the software to fail, in most cases with FF14 it's the other way around, the software is conflicting with the hardware causing the client to crash, not the computer but the game. This is the most basic part of software development, having to take your client's hardware into consideration and adjusting your code. Since this issue always gets worse anytime FF is patched with a major patch it is clear as day that there are issues with their game and since every single person on this forum has no issues with other games, people blaming users can be ignored. With that said, this forum is ignored by the developer anyway so none of this information, so the likelihood of these threads resulting in anything is very low. This issue has been going on for years, the DX11 error has nothing to do with DirectX, it's just the name of the client, FF14_DX11.exe. And people saying that "X causes crashes" are people who have no insight in the code, most likely don't have issues themselves selfs and have no ground to stand on. If FF14 crashes because of overlays, SE needs to fix their code to prevent that from happening, users turning off all different kinds of overlays isn't a solution, it's a workaround.