Computer freeze/crashFollow

Make sure your computer meets the necessary requirements to run the game. Its sounds like you have some hardware problems could be not having enough RAM or your computer maybe out of date. The requirements for FFXI are not that bad.

yes, on a past game not as complex as FFXI(if thats what you meant) it use to do it very rarely, but with this it happens frequently. It's not like i "lagg" or anything, it generally runs fine, the requirments are easly reached, i will only lagg slightly when i'm running past the AH which i would of thought isnt uncommon from the mass people. I'm wondering wether changing somthing on the FFXI configuration would help?

Edited, Fri Jan 16 15:24:51 2004 by Drihorn

From what I have experienced:

GeForce4 Ti-4x based cards and Radeon 9600 series cards causes my computer to crash while playing the game.

I changed my video card to a GeForce FX 5900 card and no more crashes.

AMD 2400+
Asus Mobo / Via Chipset
512MB PC2700
IBM 30GB

no, drihorn, i know exactly what you mean. i've had this game since release, and not ONCE has it frozen/crashed on me. at least not until this latest update. i have all my drivers and everything updated, and running the benchmark around 3 months ago, my computer got around 4000 something (nothing to brag about), so it should run completely fine.

however, after the 1-12-04 update, FFXI crashes like no other on me. starting yesterday, (1-15-04), it started crashing on me for the first time since the game's release. and today, it crashed about 7 times. so, i sent in a report to playonline. now, i'm just going to watch the godfather II, becuase i don't want to deal with it anymore. can't PT, and doing everything else is just rediculous if i have to keep starting it up.

Might sound crazy, but check the temperature of your cpu if its crashing on you after 20 minutes of system intense activity (ie: games). Usually this is listed in the BIOS or you can get a monitoring application from the motherboard/system manufacturer. If it's running too hot, it WILL crash and may not give a reason as to why. I'm not sure what the system defines as too hot, and different chips run at different temperatures (typically Intel chips run cooler than AMD chips), but if you are at like 70 degrees celcius or something, thats probably getting too high.

If this is the case, get a better fan :p

If the game blinks (characters blink in and out, sky blinks), it might be the texture memory problem I had. I swapped my newer, better RAM with my older, compatable RAM and it ran perfectly again. Never hurts to try swapping hardware!

don't know how many of you are actually reading whats going on. but, at least two or three of us have said that this has never happened until the last update. i doubt it's temperature problems. before this update, i would leave my computer on for weeks straight, even a month maybe. and during those times, i'd run ffxi for around two days straight, playing the game, and running my bazaar.

if temperature is the problem, i think it would have crashed much sooner. and it's not, my actual, computer crashing. it's just ffxi, and the playonline viewer that crashes. everything else i have running on my PC, such as downloads, and winamp are all still running fine.

1. i know it's not temperature, at least for me.
2. it's not new software.
3. all my drivers are updated.
4. my pc more than exceeds minimum requirements.
5. other than some anime downloads, nothing new to my computer.
6. only new that that has changed, is the last update (1-12-04)

heheh, kind of nice, i sort of did want to cut back on playing a little bit. what better way than to force me to. hahah.

and, yeah, i've sent and email report to SE through the viewer. now to hope that a number of other people are experiencing the same thing and send in reports as well, so they try to fix it. otherwise, i/we are out of luck. hehe

It's amazing that many of you post asking questions and got into tangents that have nothing to do with possible solutions. The tempature of your CPU? Gimme a break....I know you have ample time to do nothing but sound like your a smarter than the guy who posted before but PPPLEEAAASEEE ! While you were thinking of the "complicated/technical" solutions...it was very simple. Call the manufacturer of the card or SE and they tell you straight out that its the drivers for your card. My buddy had the same problems with a Gforce 4ti and they simple stated that they have random crash problems with FFXI and they have no idea why or when they will resolve the issues. It's laughable that none of you have the sense to consider this option of calling the people who actually know something about the issues.

Sorry im not ************** I cant believe there is this many posts and no one even considered it? Good Luck and I hope they fix the drivers for you soon...i play with my buddly alot and its a pain to have to restart and login. What he did to fix it was download the previous version of drivers and now (as a whm) he has to stare at a wall during fights in order to play because he gets a "slide show" frame by frame sometimes during heavy battles or when lots of peeps are on his screen.

btw, i'm not bashing on you or anything, i'm just kind of frustrated. and several of us "believe" we've narrowed it down to the update since we haven't been having this problems before.

i don't party any more because all i ever do is crash in the game. hahah, it's not stable for me to party. last night, i crashed 12 times in under an hour. so, all i've been doing is fishing and goldsmithing.