Final Fantasy XIV Open Beta!

[xMetian]

Downloaded the client. But it needs some updates, I'm update the client with 50 - 65kb/s.. and then it jumps back to 0,0kb/s...

But hey, when I try to update, my internet is slower then ever.

[SkyDX]

To everyone with slow download speeds, I just read opening these ports should help a lot, haven't tried it myself yet:

UDP 55296 ? 55551

TCP 54992 ? 55551

[Minifig]

Downloaded the client. But it needs some updates, I'm update the client with 50 - 65kb/s.. and then it jumps back to 0,0kb/s...

But hey, when I try to update, my internet is slower then ever.

It's not you. It's the P2P Client. I'm pulling something else in at 521.5 kb/s (and I'm not topped out yet), and I'm getting NOTHING for downloads.

[xMetian]

At 55% it stopped downloading, and then it said I have to re-start the launcher / updater. But found a different way to download the patches. Need to place them into the correct folder and then it should install it. Atleast, I hope, still downloading it (4GB).

[Richard Hammond]

Care to share?

I was getting 4kb/s down 125kb/s up, it was killing my connection.

[_neutrino Veteran]

Sadly I was unable to snag one, it literally went from displaying the busy page to displaying the we are no longer giving out codes page :(

[DesGaiZu]

Some how managed to get a key this morning, Had the same problem as sky...they sent me the wrong link :/ downloading now hope its worth it.

[SkyDX]

Glad I was able to help someone else^^

[Lexcyn]

Wow so last night I was up at 10:00pm trying to get a key, stayed up for 30 more minutes and couldn't get on so I said screw it. I don't think the beta is worth that much frustration. :(

[Xilo]

My laptop can hardly run this game on lowest settings. My desktop runs it with slight lag (both can handle ME2 at highest settings to!). I hope they address this soon, no excuse for this.

It's SE. It won't be fixed. They absolutely cannot program a decent running PC game for ****.

[Minifig]

Mine isn't pulling in.. it's .. uploading .. for some stupid reason.

[Massiveterra]

Before we all get too excited for this game, we all have to remember that Square Enix is developing it

[_neutrino Veteran]

when someone gets it working can you post a screenshot of the login screen pls

[xMetian]

I perhaps found a better way to download the patches with a better speed. Make sure you have launched the launcher first, let it update for 30 secs, then close it.

Then

• Go to "My Documents"
  
• Open the folder named: "My Games"
  
• Open the folder named: "FINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Version"
  
• Open the folder named: "downloads"
  
• Open the folder named: "ffxiv-beta"
  
• Open the folder named: "d96437e6"
  
• Then you should find 2 folders, metainfo and patch, in the meta info there should be some torrents, you can use those to download them with an torrent-program. Don't forget to save the .patch files in patch folder in d96437e6
  
• When you're done, start the updater and it should take a couple of minutes and it should download then.
  

Don't forget to save the .patch files in patch folder in d96437e6

They download a .patch file, so I assume those are the patches, not 100% sure, but it looks like it. Still downloading 2 patches ( 538mb and 1,2GB ). But alot faster then the 'update'

Edit #1 - I get almost 1MB/s with the 538mb, but the 1.23GB is kinda slow, 100-200kb/s, but not sure if that is because I download 2 files.

Edit #2 - Sorry for the 'bad' English, it's not my native language. :)

[Minifig]

I perhaps found a better way to download the patches with a better speed. Make sure you have launched the launcher first, let it update for 30 secs, then close it.

Then

• Go to "My Documents"
• Open the folder named: "My Games"
• Open the folder named: "FINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Version"
• Open the folder named: "downloads"
• Open the folder named: "ffxiv-beta"
• Open the folder named: "d96437e6"
• Then you should find 2 folders, metainfo and patch, in the meta info there should be some torrents, you can use those to download them with an torrent-program. Don't forget to save the .patch files in patch folder in d96437e6
• When you're done, start the updater and it should take a couple of minutes and it should download then.

Don't forget to save the .patch files in patch folder in d96437e6

They download a .patch file, so I assume those are the patches, not 100% sure, but it looks like it. Still downloading 2 patches ( 538mb and 1,2GB ). But alot faster then the 'update'

Edit #1 - I get almost 1MB/s with the 538mb, but the 1.23GB is kinda slow, 100-200kb/s, but not sure if that is because I download 2 files.

Edit #2 - Sorry for the 'bad' English, it's not my native language. :)

Confirmed!..

I'm checking out this right now.. It pulled in EVERYTHING... I don't know if my patcher will break because of this .. but it sure as hell went a heckuva lot faster and it's NOW downloading!

Edit: I'm up from 2.0 kb/s to 69.9 to 120 kb/s.

Still "slow" by my bandwidth means, but.. its faster than it was!

[xMetian]

Well the speeds changes a lot here, between the 100 - 200, with some peaks to 300kb/s.. but still it's a lot faster then 25kb/s :p.

Got a little problem when I try to open the boot it keeps yelling "11023 Unable to access server for version check.4:20455,10009,19900,12029"

[SkyDX]

I have the client now but can't start the game. I get into the Title Screen and press Start Game

Then I get this after a while:

13001 Error connecting to the lobby server:

Error Code 0

Status 0

TIMEOUT

So i guess the server is overloaded?

EDIT: Okay I get a new error now, after the Title Screen the game loads a moment and then the client simply crashes.....

EDIT 2: Now I get:

13001 Error connecting to the lobby server:

Error Code 1015

Status 0

oh my....

[_neutrino Veteran]

Still unable to sign up for the key :(

[CPressland]

Hey Guys,

I've been in the closed beta so mines already up to date etc. Just a word of warning, Microsoft Security Essentials breaks the Square Updater app thingy. Kill it before running the updater.

[spaceelf]

Hey Guys,

I've been in the closed beta so mines already up to date etc. Just a word of warning, Microsoft Security Essentials breaks the Square Updater app thingy. Kill it before running the updater.

Like I need more proof they can't code a PC game properly to save their lives. Heh.

[Lexcyn]

Is there going to be a trial for this game? Because I don't think I will be getting the beta as it looks like all the keys are gone now :(

[CPressland]

Like I need more proof they can't code a PC game properly to save their lives. Heh.

Well, considering I've tested MSE, NOD32, AVG, Avast, Kaspersky and Norton with FFXIV and MSE is the only one that interferes... I'd say this is Microsofts bad.

But I do agree, Square have some awful codebases.

[SMELTN]

I have been playing since the closed beta, and I can't stand it.. I quit playing after the first week, I went back a few weeks ago, and tried it again but hated it still.......

[xMetian]

Hey Guys,

I've been in the closed beta so mines already up to date etc. Just a word of warning, Microsoft Security Essentials breaks the Square Updater app thingy. Kill it before running the updater.

Had it running, but didn't got any problems.. The only problem I have at the moment is

When I start the game, and I press 'start', it loads then I see a new screen BAM error and it's back to desktop.

[_neutrino Veteran]

No I'm getting

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