Freeze/Crash & BSOD issues

[Tiago]

I got an error where it freezes the screen for a few mili-secs, then it gives an Windows Error:

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn has stopped working.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: ffxiv.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 522f769d
Fault Module Name: nvd3dum.dll
Fault Module Version: 9.18.13.2049
Fault Module Timestamp: 51c40fa2
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 005ac835
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2070

Tryed installing new drivers, same happens;
Tryed to fully uninstall drivers and re-install new ones, same happens;
Tryed to run the game as ADMIN, same happens;
Trying to play the game at max settings and minimal settings, same happens;

I dunno what else to do... its contant game freezes, over and over... Today at AK; i got 5 freezes and had to fully reconnect to be able to continue it. People wiped to bosses and got kinda mad, left at the 2nd run.
Sometimes in towns, sometimes near no-one, sometimes in ares full of ppl, sometimes in dungeons, sometimes in crafts, it will freze totally random.
Sometimes even at the Character selection it will freeze...
I'm getting kinda annoyed and i wish i didnt pay it today.

[capt_carl]

I've been having similar issues, since day one. My thread is here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...client-crashes

[Krozjin]

I posted similar findings on the last page: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1268019

I use Nvidia cards in SLI. I disabled SLI and ran on just one GTX670 and ended up playing for a little over 9 hours with no issue.

So in the end I still crash apparently, just less often, and even more so without crossfire altogether, but it still happens.

[Galliano]

I get constant crashes here. Not only does the game crash but it locks up my whole computer with a loud buzzing sound then the whole thing shuts down, this usually happens within minutes of logging in, but sometimes I can play for a short while. I've tried the newest drivers, beta drivers and older drivers and always the same thing. I've cleaned inside my case and reseated components, I've done fresh installs of the OS and the game and I've even blocked windows updates after a clean install to see if that might have been the problem and still the same thing happens. I've disconnected all other devices from my PC and I have nothing else installed except for the drivers and ARR.

As others have said The alpha and beta went smoothly and apart from server issues so did early access. This seems to have arisen since an update a few weeks ago however for a short while I didn't receive any crashes; but now they are back as bad as they were originally.

GTX 570 (stock) GPU
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition CPU
Corsair Vengeance 8GB RAM
Corsair TX 750 PSU
SanDisk 120GB SSD
Windows 7 Home Basic x64

[Psistorm04]

I'm also having random crashes.
I'm not getting a BSOD but my system just freezes, unable to do anything (can't close, ctrlaltdelete, alt tab etc) only thing I can do is restart computer using button on the box. I had 0 issues with Phase 3 and 4. Problem started with Early access like so many others have said.

Computer:
Windows 7 64 bit
6GB RAM
intel i7 920 2.67 overclocked to 3.5
GTX 285 with 320.49

Machine runs perfectly with everything else. Not yet run any sort of stress tests or anything. Last time I did was when I Over clocked CPU and it was fine. System isn't getting too hot while playing this game (gets hotter playing of games and still runs fine)
Playing in windowed mode with graphics mid-high at 1600x900 resolution.

system crashes randomly when playing this game though happens most often when game is the focus rather than something like my browser. I have 2 monitors (if that matters at all). I can't see any reason ingame why it'd crash, I've been fine in fates with loads of people, been fine with all weather types. Played Sunday and Monday all day with no issues at all.

Willing to try anything to make this work but I think SE must've messed up with the release patch. Phase 4 was flawless for me.

This is pretty much similar to my setup, except I'm running an i7 960 and a gtx680. I just upgraded to 320.49, was running a 314 before. Also exactly same result for me, I run on two monitors, windowed maximized. First the game itself will freeze, then the rest of the PC will stop responding. Sound will continue playing, and I was in a skype call last time it happened and could continue talking with my friend even while the screens were already locked up.

[EvilPeppard]

So in the end I still crash apparently, just less often, and even more so without crossfire altogether, but it still happens.

That sucks.

Unfortunately, FFXIV has not hooked me like I hoped it would. I have moved back to LOTRO with my SLI re-enabled. Not a single problem.

Hopefully the SE team will be able to pinpoint what is happening to folks so this can get addressed sooner than later.

Best of luck to folks.

[Elleyetinga]

This is pretty much similar to my setup, except I'm running an i7 960 and a gtx680. I just upgraded to 320.49, was running a 314 before. Also exactly same result for me, I run on two monitors, windowed maximized. First the game itself will freeze, then the rest of the PC will stop responding. Sound will continue playing, and I was in a skype call last time it happened and could continue talking with my friend even while the screens were already locked up.

This is also similar to mine, except the only thing that freezes is my game (I am running in full-screen windowed mode), so I can still alt tab out. Sometimes however, my whole screen goes black while the sound still plays and I'll get the driver has recovered error, but other times the game just becomes unresponsive but the audio will continue. The crashes/freezes seem to have gotten more frequent since last patch, I'm running it on a gtx 650 TI on 326.80.

[Vili]

New Nvidia and AMD drivers as of 9/19/2013
Could giver those a try.

[StellaNoxFleuret]

installed new driver and i had lots of window driver stoped in like 3 times in 2 hrs , so i went back to my old driver , now i get 1 crash in 3 hrs but i still want to get it fixed

[Kross07]

New Nvidia and AMD drivers as of 9/19/2013
Could giver those a try.

Came here to say that I upgraded to the most recent drivers for Nvidia. Running SLI GTX480's and I am still bluescreening. I can't even get to the character select before my computer shuts down from BCCode 116.

I'll try disabling SLI, but would be very annoying if that's the only way this game will work. I hate having to switch between SLI and not for other games that work fine with it.