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  • scuubeedooscuubeedoo Member Posts: 458

    Originally posted by Xerathule

    This sounds related to my problem of signing up for the first time today and not being able to sign into the tester site.  I am trying to download too, but can't finish it.

    Yeah, i figured out today that it's a bit more complicated than most other MMOs where you just create an account to play.

    Visit this link here: http://entry.ffxiv.com/na/index.html

    Press the button, there are many things to accept, then at some point it will ask you to login. Later on it sends you an email, which has a beta key and further instructions. You log on the site and add the key and, i hope, you are done. Will see in a few hours when i return home.

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  • geldonyetichgeldonyetich Member Posts: 1,340

    Originally posted by scuubeedoo

    Originally posted by geldonyetich

    Alternately, if you think you can trust third party sources, instructions on doing that here.

    No need to worry, as torrent files include md5 checksums of the file contents so if someone goes altering the files, the torrent doesn't match then.

    I'd feel better about this if I weren't replacing the entire file outright, as that circumvents the whole torrenting process, leaving no file to compare checksums against except for the one file you downloaded.

    Fortunately, there's two other hurdles involved that should keep it relatively safe:


    1. They'd have to figure out how the Square-Enix patcher works.

    2. If they did slip someithng in, somebody out of the thousands that download it would likely find out and they'd be able to be backtracked.

    Anyway, the official patcher worked just fine for me this morning, getting both patches done in the time it took me to write this message, so that's encouraging.

  • scuubeedooscuubeedoo Member Posts: 458

    Originally posted by geldonyetich

    Originally posted by scuubeedoo

    Originally posted by geldonyetich

    Alternately, if you think you can trust third party sources, instructions on doing that here.

    No need to worry, as torrent files include md5 checksums of the file contents so if someone goes altering the files, the torrent doesn't match then.

    I'd feel better about this if I weren't replacing the entire file outright, as that circumvents the whole torrenting process, leaving no file to compare checksums against except for the one file you downloaded.

    Fortunately, there's two other hurdles involved that should keep it relatively safe:


    1. They'd have to figure out how the Square-Enix patcher works.

    2. If they did slip someithng in, somebody out of the thousands that download it would likely find out and they'd be able to be backtracked.

    Anyway, the official patcher worked just fine for me this morning, getting both patches done in the time it took me to write this message, so that's encouraging.

    No you didn't understood. Torrent file = a small file that contains information about the actual file being downloaded. You replace the file being downloaded, not the torrent file. Torrent file is on metainfo directory (same level as the patch directory).

    Try putting on the patch directory another random file from your hard disk (after you rename it accordingly) and then run the patcher.

    "Traditionally, massively multiplier online games have been about three basic gameplay pillars – combat, exploration and character progression. In Alganon, in addition to these we've added the fourth pillar to the equation: Copy & Paste."

  • BlazeyerBlazeyer Member UncommonPosts: 562

    I got my reg code... want to download the beta. Can't find anywhere to download it from. 

     

    the http://entry.ffxiv.com/na/index.html site is just to register or maybe i'm just lost.

     

    help, please?

     

     

    edit: found it...

     

     

    link is in the email you get when you get your reg code. blah.

  • C.L.O.U.DC.L.O.U.D Member UncommonPosts: 365

    After waiting forever to finally retrieve my beta key, I downloaded the game to my desktop. Now I have to update the game but every time I click the icon to start the updater up, It just gives me an error and crashes... why is this?

  • MaelkorMaelkor Member UncommonPosts: 459

    I registered my key...downloaded the installer...tried to run it and during the first black screen window it simply crashes and gives me the windows solution thingy....I am running windows vists 32 bit. Any ideas? all of the exes are set to run as admin.

    Is there an actual official page for such things? If not this alone will probably decide me to not buy or play the game if I can not get tech support for such a simple basic issue.

  • bronecarbronecar Member Posts: 685

    Is the game currently under maintenance? I'm getting some lobby error timeout image

  • unicorngtmunicorngtm Member UncommonPosts: 22

    Originally posted by olepi

    Originally posted by olepi

    Hmm, I have Windows 7 on an AMD 64 4-core CPU with 4gb of memory.  Got a key, downloaded the first little loader, and when I execute it, it immediately dies. It is supposed to run on this machine?

     

    It turns out that my graphics card was too old, I guess. I had an ATI X1800, which runs all the other games very well.

    I upgraded to an ATI 5770 and now it does not crash immediately. I guess I'm on to the pain of downloading :)

    A possible alternative explanation; I installed, started the downloader, it crashed. Square Enix being absolutely no help, to my knowledge, I came across this post, and downloaded updated video drivers (not really all that old), but that fixed my issue. Or at least it did not crash on start up, and seems to be trying to download something .... at 0.0 bytes/second.

  • FortencFortenc Member Posts: 427

    The official beta patcher is no good way to download the patches sadly.  Luckily it's a beta patcher so the game should come with a patcher that works.  Using uTorrent or another torrenting program to grab the installer files from your own computer and download it yourself is the best way.  I can post how to do that if anybody's interested.

     

    (Official beta patcher never went above 0.0b/sec for me.  I uploaded a good 6 gigs, though...)

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  • unicorngtmunicorngtm Member UncommonPosts: 22

    Originally posted by Fortenc

    The official beta patcher is no good way to download the patches sadly.  Luckily it's a beta patcher so the game should come with a patcher that works.  Using uTorrent or another torrenting program to grab the installer files from your own computer and download it yourself is the best way.  I can post how to do that if anybody's interested.

     

    (Official beta patcher never went above 0.0b/sec for me.  I uploaded a good 6 gigs, though...)

    image Well, now it is downloading at a "more reasonable" 40kb/s through 50ish connections. I'll give it a day or so for now, otherwise probably try one of the other options; I think I saw some other posts/pointer somewhere about this, so should be good for now.

  • xcerebrusxcerebrus Member UncommonPosts: 41

    Hey guys I am having a very odd issue with the open beta, lol let me explain.

     

    I have my SE account and everything is activated via the account management page FFXIV service activated etc.

    I have the beta downloaded and installed "already tried uninstall reinstall several times"

    I also have contacted SE waiting to hear back but not holding my breath lol.

     

    This is the issue

    Launcher pops up, I enter my information, I click login

     

    "nothing" it just sits there like its not taking the log in i get no error messages or anything just nothing lol

    it just sits there I even clicked log in  and let it sit for 25 mins lol "i have a higher end PC" so its not that

    Im using firefox as my web browser "i doubt it has anything to do with it but just exp;loring all possibilities"

    I have all versions of DX 9,10,11

    Client is updated as far as I can see

    Im running windows 7 64 crossfired 5850's with a 3.0 I7 920 processor 6 gig ram

    not really sure why it does nothing when trying to log in >.<

  • sungodrasungodra Member Posts: 1,376

    Originally posted by Fortenc

    The official beta patcher is no good way to download the patches sadly.  Luckily it's a beta patcher so the game should come with a patcher that works.  Using uTorrent or another torrenting program to grab the installer files from your own computer and download it yourself is the best way.  I can post how to do that if anybody's interested.

     

    (Official beta patcher never went above 0.0b/sec for me.  I uploaded a good 6 gigs, though...)

     could you please post how you can do this? I have about 26 hours of having to install this thing, and really that is inaccurate because I have been installing for hours now and it has said 26 hours all this time.

     

    This is ridiculous, SE you need to fix this thing, I preordered this game and this is really causing me to have second thoughts, where I already had some to begin with.

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  • SilokSilok Member UncommonPosts: 732

    Originally posted by sungodra

     could you please post how you can do this? I have about 26 hours of having to install this thing, and really that is inaccurate because I have been installing for hours now and it has said 26 hours all this time.

     

    This is ridiculous, SE you need to fix this thing, I preordered this game and this is really causing me to have second thoughts, where I already had some to begin with.

    I explain how to do it in page 8 of this thread....

  • TeamKHITeamKHI Member Posts: 1

    Not really sure if this will be of assistance to any of you, but I've posted the entire I guess you'd call it "downloader" to my site for use to any and all... invcluding the big ass patch file I'm seeing a lot of failures on... it's here:

    http://korelabs.org/Vault/Users/Cerberus/FFXIV/FINAL%20FANTASY%20XIV%20Beta%20Version/downloads/ffxiv-beta/d96437e6/patch/H2010.08.30.2000.patch

    You can pick any file you want / need by browsing through this and just downloading it / them:

    http://korelabs.org/Vault/Users/Cerberus/FFXIV/FINAL%20FANTASY%20XIV%20Beta%20Version/downloads/

    And if it's of any use to anyone, grab the entire installer download right here:

    http://korelabs.org/Vault/Users/Cerberus/FFXIV/FINAL%20FANTASY%20XIV%20Beta%20Version.tar

    Just a heads up though, the .tar archive may not be ready until about 45 minutees after I post this, seeing it was still compressing when I typed all of this out, so if you DO download the tar archive (which does extract with winrar, 7-zip, or any halfway competent extractor of your choice) and it doesnt decompress, or isn't at least a DVD+ (4'ish to 5'ish GB) in size, WAIT FOR IT.... it's probably still compressing, and contrary to what you may want to beleive, NOT broken... In the off chance it is broken, please contact me asap and i'll see about getting it re-done immediately.

    Again, I hope some/all of this helps... It's the least I can do with the resources I have, if you have the disk space, we have the bandwidth, it's of no setback to us, so link away if you find the files useful.

     

    **edited for crappy spelling, then I gave up... it's 5am.image

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