Display Driver Crashing... Wtf?
Display driver crashing... wtf?
I had the same problem, and even after updating drivers I can't have everyone's shadows on. Especially when a summoner is around.
if you have an nvidia card updating drivers is a huge pain. like sacrifice 3 cats a dog 2 goldfish while doing back flips down stairs with your eyes closed and fingers crossed. I had a bookmark on a walkthru but lost it when my last mobo died.
here is everything you need to know to update nvidia drivers.
edit: also that was an incredible pain in the *** to from my phone lol
here is everything you need to know to update nvidia drivers.
edit: also that was an incredible pain in the *** to from my phone lol
Odin.Moondaddy said: »
if you have an nvidia card updating drivers is a huge pain. like sacrifice 3 cats a dog 2 goldfish while doing back flips down stairs with your eyes closed and fingers crossed. I had a bookmark on a walkthru but lost it when my last mobo died.
here is everything you need to know to update nvidia drivers.
edit: also that was an incredible pain in the *** to from my phone lol
here is everything you need to know to update nvidia drivers.
edit: also that was an incredible pain in the *** to from my phone lol
Idk what you're talking about. My nvidia desktop panel tells me.whenever a new driver is released,i clicl.the bubble and it automatically downloads and installs
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omg finaly more FF players haveing this issuse
just built my system on saturday, not getting this promlem everything is new, fresh instll, all tests passed multiple times but still crashing drivers
updated & downgraded drivers, reseated card, tryed other pci port nothing, even called nvid support & they gave me bata drivers that wouldnt install
any ideas whats next
system info is
CPU:- AMD Phenom II x4 805 2.5GHz
MEM:- 8GB corsair vengence mem
G.card:- Gigabyte GYX660, with Nvidia 306.97 drivers
OS:- Windows 7 ultimate x64 (ligit technet code from work) on OCZ Agility 3 ssd
any help would be great just anything lol keeps crashing
very random to was on for 7hours fishing & crafting then joined a VW t4 run & crashed just after tradeing cells
just built my system on saturday, not getting this promlem everything is new, fresh instll, all tests passed multiple times but still crashing drivers
updated & downgraded drivers, reseated card, tryed other pci port nothing, even called nvid support & they gave me bata drivers that wouldnt install
any ideas whats next
system info is
CPU:- AMD Phenom II x4 805 2.5GHz
MEM:- 8GB corsair vengence mem
G.card:- Gigabyte GYX660, with Nvidia 306.97 drivers
OS:- Windows 7 ultimate x64 (ligit technet code from work) on OCZ Agility 3 ssd
any help would be great just anything lol keeps crashing
very random to was on for 7hours fishing & crafting then joined a VW t4 run & crashed just after tradeing cells
I had the same issue with my GT 520 that came in my desktop when I bought it, there is a unified driver on nvidia's website that should fix all of your display driver BSOD errors.
Phoenix.Forgivness said: »
any ideas whats next
Probably checking the last page...
If you look on the last page I just mentioned yesterday that all 600 Series cards are having issues and that the temp fix is turning off shadows and weather effects. Until a proper driver fix comes.
Nvidia just released new BETA drivers, 310.33 for Win8/Win7/WinVista
It doesn't have anything about FFXI for DX7/8 fixes listed in the notes but who knows maybe they'll help? If anyone wants to give it a try them and report back I'll include the links below. It's probably best to choose advance -> and select the clean option. This will remove the old drivers first and set all Nvidia settings back to defaults.
Win8/Win7/WinVista x64: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-win7-winvista-64bit-310.33-beta-driver.html
Win8/Win7/WinVista x32: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-win7-winvista-32bit-310.33-beta-driver.html
Mobile Win8/Win7/WinVista x64: http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-310.33-beta-driver.html
Mobile Win8/Win7/WinVista x32: http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win8-win7-winvista-310.33-beta-driver.html
It doesn't have anything about FFXI for DX7/8 fixes listed in the notes but who knows maybe they'll help? If anyone wants to give it a try them and report back I'll include the links below. It's probably best to choose advance -> and select the clean option. This will remove the old drivers first and set all Nvidia settings back to defaults.
Win8/Win7/WinVista x64: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-win7-winvista-64bit-310.33-beta-driver.html
Win8/Win7/WinVista x32: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-win7-winvista-32bit-310.33-beta-driver.html
Mobile Win8/Win7/WinVista x64: http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-310.33-beta-driver.html
Mobile Win8/Win7/WinVista x32: http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win8-win7-winvista-310.33-beta-driver.html
Even outside of XI, they're a 10~15% perfomance boost in just about every other game for 600-series cards. Worth installing.
The Beta 310.33 drivers on Win 7 64-bit do NOT fix the FFXI display driver crashes for my new GTX 660. They work great otherwise. Still need to keep shadows and weather effects disabled until this is fixed properly (if it ever is).
Doubt it will be. I recall seeing responses from nVidia devs, on the geforce forums before they went down, a few times saying that crashing issues with FFXI and FFXIV were not being patched due to it being difficult to find a consistent cause or somesuch. XIV's is being fixed by SE through 2.0, but XI will obviously not see any such fix.
As an aside, I was able to run the game fine on my 670 with weather on, I just had to keep shadows off.
As an aside, I was able to run the game fine on my 670 with weather on, I just had to keep shadows off.
One other thing to mention that might help some people with the issue is that if have "force feedback" enabled in XI's config (not the in-game options, but the actual config), it will end up causing your game to crash. I don't recall getting a display driver error, though it may have been, I'm not completely sure. However, my game would completely freeze up and crash, even if I was just running through Jeuno without any vibration happening from my controller. It would happen after about 2 hours or so, whether I was doing something or just afk in Jeuno. Disabled force feedback and no crashes since.
Read up on it some and apparently it's been an issue on PC since the game launched. Again, not sure if this is one of the factors for some people in this thread or not, but since it is a known issue, figured I'd at least mention it in case it is part of the problem for some people.
Read up on it some and apparently it's been an issue on PC since the game launched. Again, not sure if this is one of the factors for some people in this thread or not, but since it is a known issue, figured I'd at least mention it in case it is part of the problem for some people.
Problem with FFXI is that it's running DX8 which is then interpreted / emulated through DX9 inside Windows Vista / 7. As most newer cards are DX10 or greater, chances are there is some sort of conflict / unexpected result of all that emulation that blows the DX engine up. Only way to fix it would be SE updating their code to use DX9 naively, which we know they probably won't do.
I personally started having that on my 2 x GTX 580 Hydros. Ended up turning SLI off and disabling in game shadows, help immensely with the stability of the game.
I personally started having that on my 2 x GTX 580 Hydros. Ended up turning SLI off and disabling in game shadows, help immensely with the stability of the game.
i recently got a gtx 670, and i'm also experiencing problems. they're manifesting differently, but they are also solved with turning off shadows & weather, so i'm guessing it's the same problem.
i'm still under warranty though so i can return it at anytime. has it been confirmed yet that the high end radeon cards, specifically the 7970 and the 7950, do not have this problem?
i'm still under warranty though so i can return it at anytime. has it been confirmed yet that the high end radeon cards, specifically the 7970 and the 7950, do not have this problem?
There is a big problem with the 600 series and FFXI. Turning shadows and weather effects off does cut-out many problems with crashes, however the game still freezes and crashes after playing for awhile.
It seems to be when you engage the server after having been playing for awhile (like entering combat, talking to an event NPC, changing zones etc.)
It's very hard to explain. There was a thread about it on the official forums but nothing seems to have been done about it.
I personally think its got something to do with the card going into an energy saving mode while the game is running, so when you engage the server after awhile it reboots itself and ultimately crashes the game.
It seems to be when you engage the server after having been playing for awhile (like entering combat, talking to an event NPC, changing zones etc.)
It's very hard to explain. There was a thread about it on the official forums but nothing seems to have been done about it.
I personally think its got something to do with the card going into an energy saving mode while the game is running, so when you engage the server after awhile it reboots itself and ultimately crashes the game.
i'm testing a AMD radeon 7970 and so far the circumstances which caused it to crash previously are not happening. so so far it does seem it was a geforce issues. if so, cool my ffxi finally works and i get a lil upgrade on my graphics card.
edit: other problems i've been having are still there, including some severe frame rate drops at certain spots. blah no idea what's going on.
edit: other problems i've been having are still there, including some severe frame rate drops at certain spots. blah no idea what's going on.
there's a new beta driver out for geforce cards, the notes say that it fixes a problem on FFXIV, which seems to be related to the problem on FFXI. anyone tested it out to see if it fixes it?
Siren.Matthias said: »
there's a new beta driver out for geforce cards, the notes say that it fixes a problem on FFXIV, which seems to be related to the problem on FFXI. anyone tested it out to see if it fixes it?
Nope, I just had two graphics driver crashes in a row. The newest beta drivers doesn't fix it. Why would they know about any issues with FFXIV if the game isn't even in service right now? Unless it's the alpha/beta version of the latest version. At any rate, they need to fix this ***.
no idea but the release notes said that it fixes some crash issue on FFXIV. from the research that i've done, the crash issues on FFXIV seem to happen under similar circumstances with the crash issues on FFXI, so far-fetched hope but figure it might be worth a shot. ah well maybe next time.
I tried the 310.70 beta drivers from Dec 4th, turned off shadows + all battle effects and it seems to be stable now for the last day or so.
One of my machines that has a 680 series card had recently been having display driver crashing a lot and was even blue screening once in awhile.
It was especially bad during a token farming run in nyzul, the driver crashed 5 times in one run (driver recovered but get you kicked back to the playonline menu).
One of my machines that has a 680 series card had recently been having display driver crashing a lot and was even blue screening once in awhile.
It was especially bad during a token farming run in nyzul, the driver crashed 5 times in one run (driver recovered but get you kicked back to the playonline menu).
I've been having a similar problem for about the last 3-6 months where I will load up FFXI and my screen will basically either black screen and freeze or have a bunch of vertical colored lines and freeze with audio in the background and I have to manually restart. Have tried reseating, cleaning, downloading different drivers etc. Almost to the point of just building a new PC but I don't really want to do that since it's only 2 years old. Currently installing new beta drivers for AMD to see if that fixes it, as it only does that with this game and not any others.
Intel i7 950 @ 3.07, 3068mz
6GB Ram
HD Radeon 5870
If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it as i'm willing to try anything at this point.
Intel i7 950 @ 3.07, 3068mz
6GB Ram
HD Radeon 5870
If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it as i'm willing to try anything at this point.
the new "graphics stabilization" option seems to have fixed the problem for me.
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Wow having same issue, just found this tread. I have 660 in my system so will try turning of shadows and then weather. I hope this fixed my problem. I can play for about 10 minutes then same error everyone else describes. I'll let you all know it the shadow/weather effects trick works on my set up.
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Having this issue on my new GTX 660 -.-
gtx660 here. Graphics stabilization option fixed the crashing. it is a box you check inside FFXI config. Read somewhere that the option is to fix issues with 600 series cards. have fun!
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if you are using Intel hd graphics 2000, 3000 or 4000 I can tell you right now that would be your problem, there is a patch for 4000 however I got shafted and I have 2000, I wish I could get the mobo to read my PCIe but for some reason it doesn't even recognize that the mobo has a PCIe slot
currently dealing with Intel personally over this very issue with their graphics drivers
currently dealing with Intel personally over this very issue with their graphics drivers
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