Freeze/Crash & BSOD issues

[Taah]

Windows 7 64-bit users can try to deinstall Windows Update KB2859537 (some 0x0000005 problems occure with this one)

(sry if someone posted this already)

[Blaez19]

Had one crash to desktop so far in a couple hours on 331.40. Hard to say whether it's more or less stable than 326.80 for me at this point.

[Reyanth]

I recently switched from 560ti to 760 and started to have crashed 2-10times per day. The game just froze with blackscreen for couple seconds and when all came back nvidia reported a crash. Sometimes the FPS was bad after the crash, sometimes not.

My card was running on stock clocks (760 that is) and it didn't make much difference even I underclocked or added some volts. (internet said this would help but no..) I also went thru' all the drivers possible, even the older ones which you have to do magics with the .ini file to able to install them.

Anyway, what fixed crashing for me was disabling the "Cinematic Cutscenes: Depth of field" option from FFXIV:ARR itself..
After I turned it off, no problem what so ever.

OS: Win 7 x64
GPU: Gainward GTX 760 Phantom
nVidia driver: 327.23
My FFXIV:ARR Graphical settings (image):


Just to clear this up, I was having the crashes on random, not during the cutscenes themselves.
And as far as I know, this problem with "nVidia stopped working" is not hardware related, since it only does it with FFXIV.
It has to be some graphical bit that makes the nvidia go haywire.

Other tip that I've found, which perhaps is no any use is to underclock the card a bit. Download EVGA Percision X, set power to 105-110% (this does not overclock the card) and also core clock -20 to 50Mhz.. But then again, since this is not a hardware issue (unless your card is broken, and it keeps crashing with other games too) there should be no need for this.

[dstyle]

question.
when you crashed, was it random crashes that happened anywhere? or just cutscenes?

[Reyanth]

question.
when you crashed, was it random crashes that happened anywhere? or just cutscenes?

Random crashing, sometimes while I teleported. Sometimes while I were in battle. Don't recall it ever crash during a cutscene thou, which is ironical.

[dstyle]

interesting. i heard advice somewhere before, but never tried it because of "cutscenes". i never crashed during cutscenes...
guess I'll try it out.

[RLW81205]

I tried this weeks ago and it didn't help me. I've tried countless settings and nothing worked... I hope it works for you though.

[Blaez19]

Turning off Depth of Field didn't solve my problems either, but glad to hear others had some success with it.

[Senjougahara]

Has anyone tried a format and fresh OS install? I'm considering doing this today to attempt to remedy this issue.

[RLW81205]

Has anyone tried a format and fresh OS install? I'm considering doing this today to attempt to remedy this issue.

Yup, if you read weeks ago in this thread you'll see that people have tried EVERYTHING... I'm not exaggerating either.

What's really interesting is that I have seen three new threads pop up regarding these same issues in the past day or so... this is becoming more widespread I think.