Freeze/Crash & BSOD issues

[berries]

is something noticeable supposed to happen after running nvidiaInspector.exe -forcepstate:0,2 from command line?

It was explained in earlier posts, but in short, it locks the graphics card speed to a certain level which for some weird reason completely stopped the crashes and freezes for me.

[Sumevala]

So I seem to have my system functioning again. *crosses fingers* Here's what I did:

I used a driver identifier program (Driver Detective in my case, but there are others that will work just as well) to figure out which of my drivers were out of date. Some of them I would have never found on my own, like the Renesas USB Host Controller driver or the Intel Chipset SATA AHCI Controller driver; anyway, I hunted down the latest versions of all the listed out-of-date drivers and upgraded them. You can pay money to have the driver identifier program do it for you automatically, but I prefer -free- options personally. Also, I read a poster who complained of the same BSOD error I was getting, and reported success after he'd pulled out his memory cards, blew on them to remove dust, and re-installed them (apparently the dust got in the way of their connectivity). So I did the same with a can of compressed air, on both the RAM cards and the slots to ensure all dust was removed.

After both these steps, I seemingly removed my BSOD/crash issue---I played for 8 hrs yesterday and all day today without issue. Hopefully this will help a few others out there!

[dstyle]

wish i could fix my problem with something as simple as blowing out the dust.
but my rig is all brand new, so no need for that....

[Krozjin]

It's really weird, I solved my issue by disabling one of the gpus and going from tri-crossfire to dual. Considering that most everyone here is on single cards, both nvidia and ati, I don't understand the connection between us all even more. I used to crash every 5-25 minutes like everyone, then I tested this yesterday and had no problems after. This also means I'm running 2/3 power so my framerate dropped. Maybe this info can help some of you with your crashing, or help you figure out the connection between us all. I would love to be able to play this game at 60+ FPS again instead of 40.

[Craniux]

im beginning to ahve this issue after the new patch it was all well before...random crasshe is castrum and now in copperfield mine with an alt

[dstyle]

everyday i grow more and more curious why this happens..
for the past 2 weeks, i've been playing at a pc cafe. i've played on about 10 different computers (all using gtx 660/660ti), all of them have had their drivers crash..some different from others.
for example some of them would crash only once, some every 40 minutes. but the only difference from the pc cafe's computers and my home computer is that the pc cafe's computers` drivers would crash but would recover. i would alt+tab out and go back into the game --> like some people have, the fps would drop to 5...BUT, if i would alt+tab out to windows, wait about 10-15 seconds and alt+tab back into the game, the game would be back to normal (fps maxed + sound).
where as my home computer would just get a BSOD or driver crash --> alt+tab procedure but no sound.

[Zomba13]

Freezes stopped for me now!

After trying everything else what had been suggested here, but none working, I found old thread from the 1.0 archives where someone mentioned about issues with some dynamic boost thing with Nvidia GTX cards(I have 670). Then with little googling I found this http://www.overclock.net/t/1267918/g...d-undervolting. Following those instructions, which was basically just that one command for me because I didn't care for the overclock, stopped the crashing and freezing completely. This is something I feel I should not have to do and this is the only game that does this for me, but if it's the only way to stop those freezes for me then I'll do that until it's confirmed to work some other/proper way.

I'm not sure how relevant this is but I also was monitoring when the crashes were still happening and this is what I got and the obvious spike is where the freeze happened

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/TlIiugF.png[IMG]

So I just tried this after having yet another crash this morning and while not conclusive or anything I did manage to play for a few hours with no crashes (though I have managed just as long or longer without this). I will keep my eye on this over the next few days of playing and see if it really helps at all.

[The-Alchemist]

I get constant crashes on an AMD 6950.. drives me insane I have to stand out of town and just que up. Haven't had any crashes in dungeons but sometimes the bosses are invisible

[Vmage]

well, still getting BSODs intermittently

sometimes i can play for a few hours, others just a few minutes.

tried new drivers, beta drivers, older drivers

fresh install of the game, fresh install of windows

even tried manually setting video card states with nvidia inspector

given the intermittent nature of the problem, it *could* be my end and something is drastically wrong with my hardware somewhere - but I've left other 3d applications running for hours without issue, will leave one open over night and see if it crashes or not

[EvilPeppard]

It's really weird, I solved my issue by disabling one of the gpus and going from tri-crossfire to dual. Considering that most everyone here is on single cards, both nvidia and ati, I don't understand the connection between us all even more. I used to crash every 5-25 minutes like everyone, then I tested this yesterday and had no problems after. This also means I'm running 2/3 power so my framerate dropped. Maybe this info can help some of you with your crashing, or help you figure out the connection between us all. I would love to be able to play this game at 60+ FPS again instead of 40.

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.