I encountered the weirdest issue in this game.
After about 200 hours of nearly flawless working, I finally finished ARR. But since starting the Heavensward expansion I was stating to encounter black screens. I can’t be 100% sure yet, but I suspect it has something to do with the unlock of the upgrade to my main spell “Ruin III” (Summoner). I can pretty reliably trigger the crash when using that for a couple of minutes.
I get absolutely no log message from the game. The screen goes dark, the sound is still playing but otherwise the game seems to hang, as I don’t get any audio response when doing anything. But I’m still able to SSH into the box.
The only log entries I see are in dmesg, and they are:
[11303.224211] NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:01:00: GPU-0b4cda80-07b2-13fb-9c08-f03bf0381c28
[11303.224213] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1ef6
[11311.534091] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=16, Head 00000000 Count 000b1ef7
[11319.853967] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=6226, Head 00000000 Count 000b1ef8
[11328.183850] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1ef9
[11336.503749] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1efa
[11344.813634] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1efb
[11353.133512] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1efc
[11361.463408] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1efd
[11369.783297] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1efe
[11378.093175] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1eff
[11386.413068] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1f00
[11394.732946] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1f01
[11403.062837] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1f02
[11411.372721] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1f03
[11419.692602] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1f04
[11428.022469] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 16, pid=0, Head 00000000 Count 000b1f05
[11463.772567] nvidia-modeset: WARNING: GPU:0: Timeout while waiting for idle.
[11465.772637] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Idling display engine timed out: 0x0000957d:0:0:428
I already wrote to the nvidia forums: Random black screen during FFXIV Heavensward gameplay - Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums
But appart from someone who posted a list that says that XID 16 is “display engine timeout” and a “driver error” I got no response so far.
Now I could be completely misinterpreting the cause ans it’s simply my graphics card that is dying. Has anyone with a nvidia card encountered something similar or could check if they can trigger the bug as well?