game does not launch

[Gurtvire]

Hi all, I'm sorry to hear others have been having this same issue too. Same here as well unfortunately.

I also noticed this same exact issue too with the Dawntrail Benchmark (ie able to login fine, click play on the launcher, black box opens then immediately closes seconds later, no error messages displayed at all). I've not come across that issue with any of the prior FFXIV benchmarks that I've tried in the past.

Now with the actual Dawntrail Expansion, I've noticed the same issue persists (I'm on the PC version, not Steam). I've tried some of the things people earlier have mentioned but without success.

Not sure what to do at this point except to wait and see if the FFXIV Dev team acknowledges this issue (I realize there's plenty going on right now given Early Access has begun and the official full launch is coming up July 2nd).

Just wanted to add my voice to the group so hopefully someone there realizes it's not just an individual issue, and that several others are noticing the same problem too.

(been playing since 2.0 so like others yeah, it has been years with the game. Still enjoy it and would like to keep going, but yeah it has been frustrating understandably)

[ViccAznar]

I'm still stuck here, but with a new error message.
Unfortunately, I can't go further than this and don't know what to do to fix it.

I hope this error message lights some part of the path to the solution:

"Unable to find the entry point for the SetProcessDpiAwarenessContext procedure in the dynamic link library D:\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY XIV Online\game\ffxiv_dx11.exe."

Thank you for the attention.