Thanks for the reply. I have yes. I did a bit of digging. Event viewer shows 2 consitent causes:
RadeonSettings.exe app crash
amdkmdap stopped responding/recovered.
If this happens, DX11 crashes, thus causes FF to crash. Though I get an error, this happens on DX9 as well. Consistency is about the same.
Stability monitor shows the following on the Radeonsettings.exe crash:
Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files\AMD\CNext\CNext\RadeonSettings.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: RadeonSettings.exe
Application Version: 10.1.1.1674
Application Timestamp: 58cb0150
Fault Module Name: atidxx64.dll
Fault Module Version: 21.19.525.258
Fault Module Timestamp: 58cafb67
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000000000601552
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 9ac9
Additional Information 2: 9ac95960945ce55671aef19a0be8b22c
Additional Information 3: 1c60
Additional Information 4: 1c6051aa54df32cc8e4bca29edbae6a2
Stability monitor shows the following on amdkmdap failing:
Description
A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Files that help describe the problem
WD-20171101-0132.dmp
sysdata.xml
WERInternalMetadata.xml
View a temporary copy of these files
Warning: If a virus or other security threat caused the problem, opening a copy of the files could harm your computer.
Extra information about the problem
BCCode: 117
BCP1: FFFFFA800CDA82D0
BCP2: FFFFF880040543E8
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1
I monitor my temps: GPU never above 70C, CPU never above 45-48C, both when under the max load expected when running FFXIV. Additionally, no Overclock and my Power Supply is more then enough to handle CPU and GPU + everything else (700W).
Bios is up to date as well.
I've gone through the system logs for the last year and the most common causes of a display driver crash are the display driver going unresponsive or RadeonSettings.exe crashing. I've disabled the event that runs Radeonsettings.exe on start up entirely and am testing that through normal use, but that's not going to stop amdkmdap issues. I made a reg entry to help that possibly, but we'll have to see.
The issue is not possible to replicate on demand. Even under extreme load (Defrag, Antivirus running a complete scan, FFXIV running, Browsers Running, RadeonSettings.exe running, several constantly-active monitoring software running), it's very hard to force a crash and I've found no consistent event patterns leading up to a crash.
Antivirus does allow both without any issues what-so-ever and I've got firewall rules set to allow both, so I don't think it's an interaction issue. This issue occurs on most full screen games. Examples with confirmed crashes outside FFXIV: Overwatch, Borderlands 2, League of Legends. I run a mix of borderless full and regular full. Surprisingly enough, other games have never crashed, including: Skyrim, Cities:Skylines, Diablo 3, Heroes of the Storm. Other fullscreen apps, like VLC, Twitch, Youtube, basically any non-game app have never crashed as well.
