Problem: Worked before, now crashes when clicking Play.

[Devante]

Dude...update your OS; as a software engineer in general the people who don't update their machines are the ones who have the most obscure errors.

Dude... we're talking Windows 7 here. Not Windows 98.

Anyway, WarBeast, I forgot to mention that when I uninstalled/reinstalled (about 3 times, ha), I thought of that too and reinstalled from the official link on the FF14 website, not the beta phase 4 client which was originally installed.

Seriously thinking about uninstalling/reinstalling Windows itself. ha.

[Raace]

Dude... we're talking Windows 7 here. Not Windows 98.

Anyway, WarBeast, I forgot to mention that when I uninstalled/reinstalled (about 3 times, ha), I thought of that too and reinstalled from the official link on the FF14 website, not the beta phase 4 client which was originally installed.

Seriously thinking about uninstalling/reinstalling Windows itself. ha.

Windows 7 is good but it still needs updates; especially libraries that interface with hardware (.NET, System Stability updates, etc.) it will usually pull those down from there. You loose nothing by updating so just do it.

Anyhow that exception is typically caused by accessing hardware (Access Violation on Memory) and based by your description it sounds like it's failing to build up the Video Device.

Download the latest DX9 Redist http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=34429 and grab the latest stable drivers from AMD and hopefully that resolves your issue.