My Beta Launcher from Fileplanet crashes instantly.

dragonsi

I know Open Beta is coming in a week or so, that's fine, I realize that.

But 2 days ago I downloaded the FFXIV Beta Launcher 117mbs, from Fileplanet and installed it. I was just curious to see what it looks like etc, I really didn't care if I had to uninstall it for a new one for Open or not, I was just killing time

So I click on my desktop icon for the "Ffxivboot.exe" file, and the small rectangular window pops up and instantly crashes every time. I even just finished installing the Service Pack 2 just for this game as well. I get the Vista Close Program error message instantly. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it once again, to no avail.

I have a very good computer, only 1 year old, Intel Quad Core 2, with 6 Gigs of Ram, a HD monitor 22 inches, and GeForce 9800 Nvidia card as well.

Any suggestions?

 

 

I would upload the pic I took of it from my hard drive but I don't see that option from the IMAGE choice here only posting a URL, not browsing your computer.

gauge2k3

Stop running a illegal copy of windows, buy a legit copy of it, get all the updates.

There is my suggestion.  Also the launcher has nothing to do with your computer.  You could probably run that on a pentium original.

 

If you have a legit version then it probably crashes because it can't connect to the server hosting the beta files.  Or something like that.  I only assume you don't have a legit OS because windows pretty much forces you to install service packs if you do.

dragonsi

Originally posted by gauge2k3

Stop running a illegal copy of windows, buy a legit copy of it, get all the updates.

There is my suggestion.  Also the launcher has nothing to do with your computer.  You could probably run that on a pentium original.

 

If you have a legit version then it probably crashes because it can't connect to the server hosting the beta files.  Or something like that.  I only assume you don't have a legit OS because windows pretty much forces you to install service packs if you do.

This is legitmate, I got it with my computer 1 year ago and just installed the service Pack 2 because the launcher required it. And I turned off Automatic Updates pretty much immediately when I got the computer, I'll update it when I want to, but no this is quite legal copy from the Gateway company when I bought it.

MNZeba

Update your video drivers and install Direct x 9c

viddster

Could be your antivirus or firewall blocking the installation, try turning those off and running the .exe. It could be a corrupt file, so re-downloading it is worth a try, but probably a long shot. Make sure you are running as administrator in Vista too, that can cause issues.

dragonsi

Originally posted by viddster

Could be your antivirus or firewall blocking the installation, try turning those off and running the .exe. It could be a corrupt file, so re-downloading it is worth a try, but probably a long shot. Make sure you are running as administrator in Vista too, that can cause issues.

I can try redownloading it, sure I'm on super fast DSL, the fastest Verizon DSL available, 7 megs, that's fine by me.

I'm an adult in my mid 30s, and no one touches my computer, I only have 1 user account, all programs are automatically set to Admin level.

Also though I would like to mention, after I installed Service Pack 2, 2 days ago, now if I'm afk 3-4-5 mins it forces me to the my user account name login, which I don't like at all, I'm the only one who uses this computer and either I'm sitting at it or not, and would like to turn off that action, I don't have any other User names on here and have them turned off altogether under the Users accounts options in Control Panel.

MNZeba

Also, if you just want to see it, you should just download the official benchmark program. It shows the first couple Cut Scenes.

http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/media/benchmark/na/

dragonsi

Originally posted by MNZeba

Also, if you just want to see it, you should just download the official benchmark program. It shows the first couple Cut Scenes.

http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/media/benchmark/na/

I already have that also, about 2 weeks ago, thanks though. I just wanted a head start on having some files installed and to see what the launcher looked like etc. And this is good to know NOW so I don't have this problem come Day 1 of Open Beta and can resolve this in the next day or so with everyone's help here.

 

Just imagine how annoyed I would be if I actually HAD a key last week and couldn't start the launcher for days now, that was also my point. What if people install the Open Beta Launcher and this happens to them as well, so they can use this as a guideline.

MNZeba

Originally posted by dragonsi

Originally posted by MNZeba

Also, if you just want to see it, you should just download the official benchmark program. It shows the first couple Cut Scenes.

http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/media/benchmark/na/

I already have that also, about 2 weeks ago, thanks though. I just wanted a head start on having some files installed and to see what the launcher looked like etc. And this is good to know NOW so I don't have this problem come Day 1 of Open Beta and can resolve this in the next day or so with everyone's help here.

 

Just imagine how annoyed I would be if I actually HAD a key last week and couldn't start the launcher for days now, that was also my point. What if people install the Open Beta Launcher and this happens to them as well, so they can use this as a guideline.

Okay good luck.

dragonsi

Originally posted by MNZeba

Update your video drivers and install Direct x 9c

I know I updated my Video drivers about 2 weeks ago, I update them frequently, and I just checked. I actually have DirectX 10, even way back in January, I had saved my Dxdiag test results from back then and looked them over.

svann

On the start menu search for logs, then open View Event Logs.  I forget exactly what log it is, but windows keeps a log of stuff that goes wrong.  Find that log and you should be able to see what driver failed.