Freeze/Crash & BSOD issues

[Rhywden]

from this forum and forums from other sites, im narrowing it down to client issue...everyone has been fine during beta, but since EA the problem starting occuring

A client issue is actually near impossible. A BSOD only happens due to driver or hardware issues since those are the only ones which can take the whole system down.

In a nutshell, what happens is this:
1) Program issues a valid(!) command to a driver
2) Driver does something it's not supposed to do (either due to a bug or faulty hardware), like writing to the reserved memory of another driver
3) Windows detects that the driver malfunctions and shuts the whole system down before this loose cannon does any more harm (and before you think: "What harm?", please remember that it could easily write to the memory addresses the file system drivers use - which could result in overwritten system files and an unbootable system. Just one example.)

Now, why are you seeing this BSOD only in FFXIV? Easy: A software bug does not have to be an easy "If I do this then that!" but a more complicated: "If the hardware clock just jumped to a full minute and the user did a right click, then playing this particular animation will result in a crash."
In full: Only FFXIV may fulfill all the criteria for triggering the bug. But that's not FFXIV's fault. That's the driver's fault. Just like with a car where the brake lines are rotten - braking is a perfectly valid and legal maneuver. Just not in this particular car.

And since everybody's PC is slightly different, this bug may not exist on other people's PCs at all.

[hybridremix]

A client issue is actually near impossible. A BSOD only happens due to driver or hardware issues since those are the only ones which can take the whole system down.
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In full: Only FFXIV may fulfill all the criteria for triggering the bug. But that's not FFXIV's fault. That's the driver's fault. Just like with a car where the brake lines are rotten - braking is a perfectly valid and legal maneuver. Just not in this particular car.

Given this probability, doesn't that mean that we all have to wait for NVIDIA to figure out the problem, and issue a new driver?