Good morning! Thank you for posting in the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums. We are glad to hear that you may have found a workaround, if you would like to continue troubleshooting please refer to the steps below.

If this is only affecting one character, then it may be something to do with your locally-saved settings. Go to 'My Documents' > 'My Games' > 'Final Fantasy XIV' and delete that folder. If there are any corrupted files that are associated only with that character, this will get rid of them. Please note, this will reset all of your in-game configurations back to their default values.

Please be sure to install Steam as well as the game to the C: drive as this works best with Final Fantasy XIV. Lastly, please be sure that no background processes are interfering with FFXIV (i.e. Anti-virus software, OneDrive, Discord etc.)

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