Freeze/Crash & BSOD issues

[Kaaylryn]

Have had 2 random crashes in 2 days. This after the 2.1 patch, never any problems before. Last night my launcher format was screwed up when trying to log back in and it took a restart to fix that. From my application log, probably just generic stuff but thought I would post it anyway:
Version=1
EventType=APPCRASH
EventTime=130321998590017997
ReportType=2
Sig[0].Name=Application Name
Sig[0].Value=ffxiv.exe
Sig[1].Name=Application Version
Sig[1].Value=1.0.0.0
Sig[2].Name=Application Timestamp
Sig[2].Value=52b158ac
Sig[3].Name=Fault Module Name
Sig[3].Value=ffxiv.exe
Sig[4].Name=Fault Module Version
Sig[4].Value=1.0.0.0
Sig[5].Name=Fault Module Timestamp
Sig[5].Value=52b158ac
Sig[6].Name=Exception Code
Sig[6].Value=c0000094
Sig[7].Name=Exception Offset
Sig[7].Value=004cffb2

[LordRune]

It used to be that my game would crash/freeze often but now after 2.1 my whole computer freezes and I have to do a hard reset. I have a HD Radeon 6900 series on Win 7 64bit and have tried multiple drivers that have not fixed the problem. My computer is scanned and clean yet it still happens but ONLY with FFXIV, any other games I play I have no problems with. The error I saw had to do with directX and although that is updated as well I still get the same problems.

[TornadoFury]

erm. i'm having a kernel power 41 issue for about a month and it happens randomly while i play ff14 arr. i notice i can play longer when i lower settings and play windowed.. when i play full screen anywhere from 5min to 3hours my pc instantly shuts off and im forced to have to unplug it from the pc then plug it back it before it works and i get no bsod... i've never been more upset with a computer.

[Mopster]

I have problems with graphical driver crashing since beta phase 2. It's gotten worse since patch 2.1. While it used to be occasionally, it now happens multiple times daily. While playing the game, at a random moment, the grame freezes, the sounds gets distorted and cracks, the game crashes (window popup telling the game stopped working) and after that I get grahical artifacts in the launcher and can't start the game (crahes right away). When I open a browser, the sites are totally messed up and no other game will start. I have to restart my PC in order to be able to play the game again. My drivers are up to date, upgraded to new version every time a new one was available, I also upgraded my gfx card. Both cards are nVidia, so maybe there's a problem with that.

This is a very ('very!') annoying issue and only happens in FF XIV.

[bubblemeat]

It wasn't so bad before 2.1, but after 2.1 I was starting to lose display once every 30 seconds to 5 min, it makes the game very unplayable. It's no wonder why the game feels baron lately. please fix this.

[Vuhad]

What's solved it for me:

Overclocking my graphics card. I have a GTX 760 and using the MSI Afterburner software, i'm now running my card using the below settings with the latest drivers (331.93).



I've played many hours with the card overclocked and not had a crash since, whereas before it was constant (an error with nvd3dum.dll). From what i've read from people with similar problems in other games, it's the higher voltage in particular which the game requires.

[Will01]

What's solved it for me:

Overclocking my graphics card. I have a GTX 760 and using the MSI Afterburner software, i'm now running my card using the below settings with the latest drivers (331.93).



I've played many hours with the card overclocked and not had a crash since, whereas before it was constant (an error with nvd3dum.dll). From what i've read from people with similar problems in other games, it's the higher voltage in particular which the game requires.

This was stated in another thread too. This is definately a voltage issue, so using MSI Afterburner should fix the problem. Even without a OC a voltage adjustment should help.

However, on some card's the Voltage is adjusted automatically by MSI and a OC is the only way to increase the voltage.

[Mopster]

I already have an OC version of my GTX 660Ti, don't know if i should start tinkering with voltages :s

[Shadow018]

Had the same issues (Game crash, pc freeze, pc crash, bluescreen) until I deactivated SLI (Geforce GTX 590).
I have played about 6 hours without a single crash since then, so maybe that will help some of you.

[Samitsu]

I have been having this problem for the last couple of months now (Radeon HD4850) where it would cause the game to freeze, turn black and reset my graphics card every few minutes. It's extremely annoying paying membership and not being able to play the game for any length of period or progress (can't raid to progress story due to this problem). It was working with no problems up until late October. Please SquareEnix or someone resolve these issues!