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    Final Fantasy Install Crash

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Pomme, Sep 28, 2010.

  1. Pomme

    Pomme Notebook Consultant

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    Hi Guys,

    So I recently built my PC (i5, gtx 460, 4gig ram, etc etc) and i am currently running windows 7.

    When i install ff14 using the dvd, it goes 6gigs in, and then my pc auto-restarts.

    does anyone know wat this issue is, i tried it 3 times. (no error is given, just instant reboot)

    thanks.
     
    Pomme, Sep 28, 2010
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    Does anything get logged into the Event Viewer? I know its possibly the most useless step, but its worth checking.
     
    Voodoofreak, Sep 28, 2010
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    all it says is event error "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly."
     
    Pomme, Sep 29, 2010
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    Yea, just as I figured...very vague. I'm shooting in the dark now, but maybe try to make a copy of the DVD to a .iso and try installing it straight from the hard-drive. I don't think that will help much, but its a different medium to installing the game.
     
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    So I tried installing CIV5, it crashed also. BUT, then i tried installing it into the other "Program Files" diretory (not the x86 one) and it didn't crash.

    Then I tried installing FF14 again to this other Program Files diretory but it crashed again.

    So I'm thinking its either a random crash because FF14 only went 2.1 gigs in before crashing this time rather than 6.1 gigs in like initial time.

    Or it has something to do with the hard drive. I tried running scan disk but once it got to 5/5 the final phase would of taken 2days as it was 200+million sectors and it took like 1 hour to reach 1million. I am currently using a 1TB 6gb/s WD hard drive.

    So basically
    -I have installed Star Craft 2 successfully and CIV 5 successfully (on 2nd try on diff file directory)
    -Final Fantasy 14 installer crashes at random points during installation (sometimes early in the install sometimes near the end)
    -Have a feeling it "might" be the hard drive but other than this installation, I have yet to experience any major issue for it.
     
    Pomme, Sep 30, 2010
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