game does not launch

[Tiakira_Yakumo]

So you finally managed to run FF14 on windows 7?

Nope, Linux with WINE and Lutris as described in my original post in this thread (#14).

I might still try to get Dawntrail running on my old Win 7 system just for fun and to have a "worst case" backup, though given that most of these reports of startup issues are on newer Windows OS installs to begin with it probably isn't worth the effort to get FFIXV running on Win 7.

[TouiiMonochrome]

for me it will be either making it work with wine or proton or having to fork over money for new hardware. the rig is fast enough, but only TPM1.2

[AlphaKurokami]

I'm running an nvidia gtx 780 and was also having this problem, tried pretty much all the same troubleshooting as everyone else. Finally got it to work after finding a reddit post which said to go back to an older driver! For some reason the newest 475.06 was causing the launch issue for me. My current driver is 456.71 but the reddit OP used 471.96, along with a few other people saying that this version worked for them, hope this helps!

im use same video card, 471.96 help me, thanks.
finnaly i can play T_T

[ArthurBarbaro]

I'm running an nvidia gtx 780 and was also having this problem, tried pretty much all the same troubleshooting as everyone else. Finally got it to work after finding a reddit post which said to go back to an older driver! For some reason the newest 475.06 was causing the launch issue for me. My current driver is 456.71 but the reddit OP used 471.96, along with a few other people saying that this version worked for them, hope this helps!

Thank you so much!!! This worked for me too. Haven't tried newer versions yet, maybe I will later on.
For anyone interested, I believe the aforementioned reddit post was this one, by Hagio.

Many thanks also to Tiakira_Yakumo, who managed to track the error up to ffxiv_dx11.exe. Here's hoping this will help correcting the bug, so we can properly update the drivers again (they're security fixes after all…).

[Elysium]

I'm running an nvidia gtx 780 and was also having this problem, tried pretty much all the same troubleshooting as everyone else. Finally got it to work after finding a reddit post which said to go back to an older driver! For some reason the newest 475.06 was causing the launch issue for me. My current driver is 456.71 but the reddit OP used 471.96, along with a few other people saying that this version worked for them, hope this helps!

With a GTX 760 this is the only solution that worked for me ( Regular version not Steam )

I just installed the 471.96 driver and now the game works.

I hope this works for some of the people having this problem.

[DEM0NlQUE]

Thank you, thank you, thank you... no, I won't do all 2,000. That might just get a bit tedious. Autistic. Terrified to try this... in my head I imagined my laptop forgetting what "graphics" were, and reverting to some binary Matrix style code thingy... but it worked! I'm as happy as a pig in... well, a happy pig, and let's leave it at that!

EDIT: Noooooo!!! for a few glorious seconds I was looking at my character, just getting ready to enter world... then an error flashed up and everything crashed,. Tried to log in again and I'm right back to "Play" and poof! I've no idea what installing the older driver has done to my laptop, and I'm no better off...

RE-EDIT: 3rd time's the charm, eh? Worked eventually.

[Changeling]

Yeah sadly this is happening to me as well...

[MinOfForest]

Exact same issue here. Log in just fine, click "Play", game screen starts to launch, but disappears along with the Launcher while it's still black. I was able to play just fine until the servers went down for patching.

I've tried: Removing and reinstalling the game, updating Windows fully, "Reset System Settings" x3, "Restore Game Data" x4, updating graphics drivers, restarting the computer a million times, copying /boot folder from a friend, disabling "Game Bar" since that was in my Event Viewer logs, temporarily deactivating Windows Firewall and Defender (apps are whitelisted anywho). I'm at a loss of what to try next. I've been doing the Restore on loop in case that gets lucky, but so far no dice.

Windows 10 64-bit, NVIDIA GeForce 680, Windows install (not Steam)

Since this I tried doing a full copy of the /boot and /game folders from someone who has the game working (in case a clean install didn't work somehow) and still had the same issue. Ran dxdiag and sfc scan, neither came back with issues. One of the first things I tried for this failure was updating my graphics drivers (to 475.06), but several people had it work to roll those drivers back (474.82). No luck for me. I double checked to make sure my GPU was not overclocked (it wasn't and isn't).

Next steps are to try a different GPU and/or I'm about one cup of coffee of motivation away from reinstalling Windows 10 + FFXIV from scratch on my other drive and trying over there.

[TouiiMonochrome]

seems like i am having the same issue, too:

steam starts the patcher, patcher does its thing, soon as i click "launch game" the processes disappear. starting the ffxiv_dx11.exe does give a procedure entry point not found error.

nVidia 1080, updated drivers, fix mode run, re-install, etc.