Freeze/Crash & BSOD issues

[Raist]

I'm having this nVidia driver crash for months now, upgrading or downgrading drivers doesn't work. Tried several gfx settings, didn't work. I've played for an hour in coil t4 today, I crashed 3 times. Every time i crash, my sound cracks, my screen goes black or show a lot of gfx glitches. Windows is trying to shut down FF XIV. The thing is, it's the gfx driver that crashes, meaning anything gpu accelerated doesn't work anymore, I can't even browse websites. I have to reboot my system in order to do anything again.

This has been going on for months(!) and has come to a point I'm even considering buying a new gfx card while my card can run this game on (almost) highest settings prefectly.

I have a GTX660 Ti OC from Gigabyte on a Win7 64bit, current driver version : 332.21
Soundcard : Creative Soundblaster Zx

Really getting on my (and my LS/FC's) nerves!

Has there been any feedback on the nVidia issues from SE ?

Have you tried down-clocking the GPU core and/or the memory? You may have 100+ boosts over the non-OC reference designs.

Also, did you verify your PSU is strong enough to support the card? Only mention the PSU because a lot of people have upgraded graphics cards without checking their power capacity, and the newer generations are considerably more power hungry than we've seen in the past. Your system may be pulling in close to 450W+ when this game is in full swing. That would mean at least a 550-600W certified 80+/SLI PSU, or 750-800W generic PSU.

Remember, XIV is coded very inefficiently so it hammers the h3ll out of your hardware with excessive CPU usage and memory transfers, so it will gobble more power than you may see with other games--as well as generate more heat, which can contribute to instability as well and reduce your capacity for overclocking.