Final Fantasy 14 OPEN beta for alienware USERS

What error codes exactly are you getting?

I was getting three error codes during download and it turned out to be my antivirus. If your anti virus has blocked a file just allow it then turn off system protection for the download.

 

i'm running the updater again now, if it fails ill post the error code.

I've turned off my Antivirus (Microsoft Security Essentials) and disabled Windows Firewall (for the time being).

Right now its CHECKING the update file.

 

Ok got error message

An update error has occurred

Error 20619
Error 19901
Error 13

 

That's exactly the 3 error codes I received and I was also using Microsoft Security Essentials as my anti virus.

Have you gone into MSE and allowed the file it is blocking, when I went in it had "disinfected" part of the ffxiv beta and as soon as I allowed it, turned off the antivirus and ran the updater again it worked.

Hope this works for you as well!

 

hrm,. well, i went into MSE and excluded the folder that FFXIV is in so we'll see if that helps. I also turned off Utorrent that was doing some downloading to see if that helps.

 

I don't even use the updater anymore. I open it, let it grab the torrent, then use that to download whatever patch it is via uTorrent. After the first 30 minute freeze of 0.0b/s download speed I figured out how to do that and its way better(for me) than using the updater itself.

 

Finally got it working by making it an exception in mse

 

So who's playing and what server, I'm in Wutai.

 

same! Wutai too!

 

I'm Wutai also Isaak Quek

 

whats your user name,

Angellus Frost here.

 

I added you hitokiri

If it tells you Isaak Quek added you, thats me

 

So i finally got everything working but now I can't find any decent settings that work with this game. Can the M17x really not handle this game with high settings?

 

I have my textures up high and stuff, but all the additional options that come by default unchecked I didnt even look at, because the game seems perfectly fine and visually enjoyable to me without them.

So basically, these are the graphics settings im using on my M17x:

The only different between my settings and this is I have shadow detail at Standard and Character Shadows off.

I suggest NOT running the game in fullscreen(even if you go the max supported size for your monitor, leave the fullscreen/windowed setting set to windowed) because when I was running full whenever you would tab away or minimize it the client would crash saying a DirectX device could not be found.

 

cool thanks, i'm going to try out these settings now. But shadows off in game? thats a big sacrifice isn't it.

 

Well thats why I went with CHARACTER shadows off. Normal shadows I expect to see and it makes the game enjoyable, character shadows I never notice in the first place so it was an easy sacrifice for me.

I also have Dust Effects off, because I have no clue what that does and I didnt notice any difference with it off.

 

Could someone help me out here please. I just registered the beta account on the square enix site and when I try to login to the beta test site, after typing the password, it just bounces me back to the screen with

Code:

 
The FINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Test Site can only be accessed by those who have been granted Beta Test accounts. 

Beta testers can log in from the link below using their Square Enix Account. 

With the button to login ...

Anything I am doing wrong, or something I didn't activate/confirm, etc?

 

Theres another button on the beta page it bounces you to, I think it says "Close". Click that, it should show you the actual beta page.

 

I had this problem as well, it was happening to me for two reasons.

1. It doesn't seem to work well with Google Chrome, try in another browser and see if that works.

2. I have an EU Square Enix account yet the email they send was linking me to dev-na, by changing this to dev-eu I was now able to log in.

 

Wutai in the house as well

Idlehand Tathos

 

Hi Grim,

Not sure if the most recent patch has included some sort of hardware optimization, but when I was playing a minute ago both my GPUs were up to 90+% load.

Might be worth checking yours again to see if the patch has done anything for it?

 

I think i noticed something some days ago, after an update as you say. I haven't been able to play alot lately, and therefor i did not run GPU-Z in the background to check on the load. But for the experience i had, i was in Gridania running around for some shopping and the lag was more or less server connection. I'm gonna do some leves for today and will run GPU-Z in the background and report back, well not much time, so it'll be a 15 minute run.

 

Haha it will be good to know atleast that my cards aren't doing 3x the work for no reason atleast. Perhaps this means we can crank up some more settings if the GPU is being allowed to go to full load?

 

I tried it with 4xAA and both GPU's hit 40% ingame and with ambient occlussion on, the game staggers and is just not bringing the performance. I'm doing something wrong i guess. What driver and app profiles and settings for CC and FFXIVconfig are you using?

Just tried to install dells beta drivers, but the game crashes if i want to go ingame after login. So back to the reference drivers again i guess...

Edit: Yay, it's scaling completly now, after i uninstalled the beta and installed the reference drivers 10.8 back, all settings to max. except 4xAA not 8x, finally working. Awww, too bad it's already late, but it's weekend soon and i will see if the effect stays, even when i'm going to restart the laptop now, but atleast i know now it is possible. Didn't have fps counter on, so i will have to see how smooth it was actually running. More on that later, good night for now

 

I'm running the dell beta drivers with the new vBIOS. Think I'm running 10.8a app profiles.

Not sure why it would crash you with the dell beta drivers...I'm definitely running the 8.763 drivers....

Curious..

 

is crossfire working now?

 

Well working is a bit high spec'd. It runs in crossfire, yeah, but being optimized for it, is something different

 

Haha, I was trying to say this but couldn't phrase it so I gave up.

Essentially, it uses both graphics cards but it doesn't provide improved performance over one graphics card as far as I can tell. So it recognises crossfire but doesn't actually use it in any intelligent way..

 

Yeah, the work is just more or less split up, it does not run much smoother over 1 gpu imo. Of course it depends on the settings (ambient occlusion is a b*tch lol). I wish ATI would join the party and play along the open beta to improve the drivers for its release on 22. But why mentioning it, i'm sure they are already doing that and cat 10.9 and cap 10.9 should provide us the performance we wish for. Of course that's what i hope for, but i'm confident it'll work out. If not, i will give my best to report feedback to dell and ati so i can play'n enjoy the game i actually bought this laptop for

 

yea man damn game better run awesome or else i say we sue dell for false advertisement saying most powerful laptop in universe and cant run ffxiv max Lol i hope ur right about the 10.9 cuz would suck to see same thing on swtor

 

Uhm, i'm not a big pc gamer, atleast not FPShooters. I think you don't have to worry about the old republic, i think BioWare is a well known PC Specialist Developer afaik. I'm sure those guys know what they do.

And for S-E, i know they can do better, this engine they use, guess its the Crystal Tools (formerly known as White Engine), is a very special multiplattform engine to develop on it, High Quality Standards (or Anti-Standards lol) and the latest Functions along it, but not that userfrienldy to work with i suppose (also this is the first game for windows they are using this engine for). So for me it's also up to ATI to get their drivers working well for this, i hope they fix it soon with release or shortly after, but hopefully not more than 2 weeks after inital limited edition release. But as there was already a CAP released with support for FFXIV, i'm sure with the next CAP there should be an update, if the full version is not already supported with 10.8. For now, we should just say it's the Beta, everything else is too much speculation and of course not accurate at all. Still confident though

 

Well another new patch and now my game won't load....just need to keep reminding myself it is a beta! Hope I can play again with the next patch lol. I'm running the most recent drivers and catalyst profiles etc...

 

So i'm trying to play the darn thing but for the past few 5 days ive been downloading at crazy 980 bps. :|
Tried from 3 or 4 different locations, the same. I doubt I can make it by the end of the obt.

 

Browse to

C:\Users\"USER"\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Version\downloads\ffxiv-beta\bca2a8ae\metainfo

or

C:\Users\"USER"\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Version\downloads\ffxiv-beta\d96437e6\metainfo

open the torrent(s) in uTorrent (my favorite BT Client) select download directory

C:\Users\"USER"\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Version\downloads\ffxiv-beta

replace "USER" with your actual windows account name, and you can download much faster. If you selected the wrong path, copy the downloaded file into it's respective folder, and once it's done restart the FFXIV Client and it should rehash/verify the content and install the patch.

You can do this with any patch they release once you atleast got a message in the client like "Downloading in Progress [1/2] then you have to open all the latest 2 torrents for example.

uTorrent also verifies content that you actually downloaded already and can resume the download from the FFXIV client IF you select the CORRECT path.

Good Luck (Open Beta ends in 10 Days)

Had this aswell once right after an update, i checked the Beta Test Site and i was informed they were doing maintenance and therefor the crash, right before you would come to the character selection screen. Tried again at a later time and it was working again. I'm running ATI reference drivers 10.8 CAT (8.762) with 10.8a CAP, no Boot Error upon Starting.

 

Might have another try playing in a minute then and see if it is fixed. Have you seen your GPUs going to full load yet or still milling about at 30%?

 

Let me have a look, did only some leves today and the fans were atleast running faster and the backend got nicely warm in the rear of the laptop. But i give you some numbers with fps counter and Dual GPU-Z running in the background. Give me a few minutes....

Before playing, idle in Windows:



After playing 3 minutes, outside Gridania.



Screenies...

Login(60fps constant):



Ingame (15-20fps):



EDIT: Weird, i just tried it with my other char, i'm on the intro for Limsa Lominsa with that, and the GPU's are scaling much better on that one, around 80% each...

 

Same thing is happening to me now Grim, it's let me in but the frame rate is LOW. I haven't got FRAPS on but I'd say it's not above 20 most of the time. My fps was perfect yesterday 50 or more pretty much everywhere..

I haven't crashed again but it seems like they haven't optimised quite right yet..

 

Do you have also such low send ratio? receive ratio is going up and down widely and gives me some nice lag when i walk around, like a stuttering.

Well something can't be right if i get 15fps and the gpus are only at 40% both, there should be room for more no? . I'm sure if i just disable Crossfire right now, and i go into the exact ingame spot, i get the same performance and like 70-80% load on a single gpu.

Edit: Totally nuts, besides scaling a little better, fps is also better at around 20-30fps noticable, scaling from 60-98% ingame, on single gpu:

 

My average send:receive ratio is about 1:5. I take it that is what is causing the massive lag when I am attacking. Quite often I'll see no attack animations until the monster is dead it's so slow.

Looks like the crossfire support is even more limited than we suspected then if it is currently detrimental to performance lol! Will have to play it on 1 card for now then...

EDIT: I'm also finding that NPCs take an age to load into the environment, quite frustrating!

 

Ah well, we don't know what info gathering is going on while we play. But all this lag is mostly server performance, i experience the same, well beta. Waiting and drinking tea then, will buy the game anyway, 1st month is free i think, after that i can decide what i want to do with the game and/or the laptop

 

Only the first week is free unfortunately, and it'll probably take that long to log on the first time once the masses move in!

There is always SW:TOR in a few months, or Guild Wars 2 next year which has the benefit of not making you feel guilty for not playing because it's free...

 

Anyone else playing this on an m11x? I'm trying to find a good balance of settings and need some help ... also my mouse is lagging like crazy, makes the thing near unplayable.

Right now I have shadows down all the way, no aa, native resolution, and ambient occlusion off (I think its off, the box isn't checked). Anything else I can do in game/out of game? I'd like to try to avoid messing with the textures if possible ... need my prettiness.

 

Couldn't tell you much settings wise but I want to reassure you about the mouse, it is like that for everyone.

However, either I've gotten used to it or it is improved today...it definitely feels sharper than it has done.

 

Yeah, I looked it up and learned all about the software instead of hardware rendered mouse ... need at least 60 fps for it to be perfectly smooth. Bah.

Beyond that though ... are there any ingame settings that I can modify? (Like the 'physics' thing ingame, for example, or any of the other settings ... no idea what they do). And am I correct in assuming that ambient occlusion is "off" unless I check the box? Thanks!

 

If I were you I would turn off character shadows, for me they don't add much to the experience so I would ditch them if my framerate was suffering. You can problem get away with medium textures? Don't bother with any AA. You are correct, Ambient Occlusion is off if you have it unchecked. I can't even get away with Ambient Occlusion on my M17x at the moment!

I don't think the ingame graphical settings really make the world of difference, they are however in game settings so you could turn them all down to minimum then turn on the things you want until the frame rate becomes unacceptable?

 

Nah, it's the first month. It's written on the official page along the release info for both versions, standard and limited edition.

Also it's not about throwing out money out of the window, i will play this game no matter what. It's just to see if the investment i made into this laptop holds up to what it promises. I won't play the old republic nor a free-2-play mmo like guild wars 2, as i know the content will 100% satisfy myself in FFXIV. I don't see any problem there.

 

Quite right you are, I was getting confused with the collector's edition week of early access.

I'm pretty sure FFXIV will do it for me for the next few years as well - since the M17x will be able to play this well, and it'll be one of the only things I play in the next few years I won't need to replace my rig for a while to come!

 

I've been finally able to play it on my M15x. Doesn't run too well. Currently trying on my native rez (1600x900) with all settings to low and I get mid 30 fps. Using 10.6 drivers. This is fairly disappointing....

 

Don't worry too much yet, I'm barely getting 30fps at the moment on my m17x...this game is absolutely not optimised yet. Your m15x will run it fine come release.

 

I'd like to believe that, but the game is only a few weeks from being released first on Sept 22. I don't know if it will change much. I guess new drivers from ATI might help, but don't know if that will make such a huge difference.