And have kept it running on the other monitor for the last hour of play tonight once I came home from Outer Raz. Today? Couldn't keep it in for more than 2-3 minutes for a solid hour of the comp self rebooting after a complete bomb. Sometimes 3 days without a crash then 3 in one day. Not playing some silly non intensive card game on Steam. Not playing The Witcher 3 on uber settings. It's gone pretty much an average of once a day for months. Literally 2-3 minutes after logging my character in every time. I'm a bit bitter tonight because I've had an incredible series of crashes trying to CP in Outer Raz. But I assure you that the 980 card is just doomed to crash comps when running FFXI. I'm not attempting to jinx you in any way. Think it's safe to say that the problem has been resolved :) Had all settings on full with weather effects and shadows. I really hope we'll find something someday. These are the forums posts that might interset you : lots and lots of in game settings tweeks and such.

Underclock gpu/memory clock from 50 to 100 with an increment of 5 everytime. NVIDIA Control pannel > Under Manage 3d settings > Global Settings change Power managment mode to prefer maximum performance Disabling shadow / weather effect + Enabling graphics stabilization.

Some zones like vagary is almost a 100% Crash everytime if both my chars are in. I tried it to no avail though, No matter what, one of my char will crash eventualy, even if i'm just standing in an empty zone. The only thing that has worked for some people so far is underclocking the gpu / memory clock with MSI Afterburner. Launching the game inside a virtual machine works, but it's not a real solution (for me). I've read billions of pages addressing this problem.

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