Had a whole post laid out and then I got logged out for inactivity for whatever reason so that whole thing is gone.
Anyway, I've gone through everything listed here on the FAQ page multiple times over. I've also attempted most user-reported fixes for this issue like disabling Steam overlay and controller input, force closing Steam before hitting Play in the launcher, forcing the game to open in windowed mode. I've tried the most recent NVIDIA drivers as well as the drivers from 2/13. I have also had to resort in the past to use the third party client XIVLauncher as a lot of people have said it successfully deals with Steam issues relating to the official FXIV launcher. While this has historically worked for me on occasion, it was not successful this time.
Standard order of operations for the crash is as follows:
- Launch FFXIV client through Steam
- Log in and press Play
- Game window opens to black screen visible before splash screen appears
- Application stops responding, dropping to 1% CPU usage
- Left clicking on game window will cause Windows 11 to gray out and show the loading cursor icon
- 'X' out of game window
I have a dump file created through task manager as well as system information from the ffxivsysinfo application.
I'm at wits end with this issue because it's been persistent and a headache since I purchased the game in early 2021. Normally I can brute my way through by just relaunching the game until it successfully reaches the title splash screen. But now I am 100% completely unable to access the game through Steam.
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Anyway, I've gone through everything listed here on the FAQ page multiple times over. I've also attempted most user-reported fixes for this issue like disabling Steam overlay and controller input, force closing Steam before hitting Play in the launcher, forcing the game to open in windowed mode. I've tried the most recent NVIDIA drivers as well as the drivers from 2/13. I have also had to resort in the past to use the third party client XIVLauncher as a lot of people have said it successfully deals with Steam issues relating to the official FXIV launcher. While this has historically worked for me on occasion, it was not successful this time.
Standard order of operations for the crash is as follows:
- Launch FFXIV client through Steam
- Log in and press Play
- Game window opens to black screen visible before splash screen appears
- Application stops responding, dropping to 1% CPU usage
- Left clicking on game window will cause Windows 11 to gray out and show the loading cursor icon
- 'X' out of game window
I have a dump file created through task manager as well as system information from the ffxivsysinfo application.
I'm at wits end with this issue because it's been persistent and a headache since I purchased the game in early 2021. Normally I can brute my way through by just relaunching the game until it successfully reaches the title splash screen. But now I am 100% completely unable to access the game through Steam.
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