Test server not working?

[Zumi]

Try logging in the test server after the update today however the the game won't let me log in it just loops back to the POL screen.

[Kaisha]

Same issue here.

File-check reports nothing wrong, nor did redownloading the main files the client needs to boot-up help any.

[Ryx]

Same problem on my end, the test server worked up until this update. A complete POL file check of the test server client files came up with zero errors.

[Yugl]

Echoing this problem.

[Byrth]

Me too. Windows 7 64-bit. File Check finds nothing. Test server worked fine before this last update.

[oliveira]

Test server seems to be disabled atm. Probably in a few hours (Monday business hours in Japan) they will have it fixed, I suppose...

[Kaisha]

Still doesn't answer why the FFXI Test Server client won't load. Server check occurs within that, not POL.

[Dsherman]

This problem is not on the server.. it's the client. The update to the client on August 24 (Friday) has disabled it from running at all. When started by the Playonline Viewer, the window for the Viewer closes as usual once it is ready to start the FFXI test server client...but the client just exits immediately. No error message.. the game window never opens. The Playonline Viewer window re-opens as though the FFXI test client had exited after selecting the Back button on the title page... although that actually never happens since the game window never opens.

The FFXI clients (both main and test) don't do anything to check on the server at all until after the game window has been opened, and the agree button has been selected on the box for agreement to license and rule stuff that always appears first in the game window. The test server client never gets that far.

It is going to require them to update the client again to fix this.

[Monchat]

re-installing the client solved the issue for me.

[Dsherman]

I would very much like to know why it is that my working test client stopped working in the manner described in my earlier post in this thread. However, I think it very doubtful that SE will ever tell me or anyone else.

I have uninstalled the test server client, then downloaded all the files again and re-installed it. It is now working.

It may be that it would have started working again the next time they do an update to the test server client, but now I will never know. It had been working just fine until the update to the client that was made available on August 24. After that update, the FFXI Test Server client would not work on my system until I re-installed it.

[Detoxy]

Same issue here Ill wait for next update to see if it fixes it.

[Ryx]

This issue is still present as of the 09/07/2012 test server update. Just finished updating the test server files, restarted Playonline to be certain, clicking the test server play button results in Playonline disappearing for a second, like it'd be launching the game, but POL comes back up instead of the game, no error message.

[Martel]

Mine's working fine. And I didn't have to reinstall or anything.

[Byrth]

It never broke for some people. I had to reinstall, but now it works.

[Dsherman]

It would appear that something bad got mixed in somewhere along the line which started affecting users of the Test Client as of the August 24 update. These users have had an ongoing working Test Client for some time before the August 24 update. It is not affecting all users, so it is hard to say when the bad stuff actually got on to your machines. It is only that the August 24 update is the one that put the bad stuff in place to start causing the problem. The bad stuff may have been there for some time before August 24, but wasn't being used.

It is very doubtful that SE has any clue at all of what that something bad is, but it is not present in files available for downloading and updates at this time.

For any Test Client users that are having this issue of POL Viewer window closing and then just reopening again after clicking the Play on Test Server button, I would recommend that you uninstall the Test Client completely, then download all files again and reinstall and update it again to get it working again.

I was hoping the problem would go away on another update subsequent to the August 24 update when it went bad. Such would seem not to be the case.

[oliveira]

The issue seems to be OS dependant. I can't get the new FFXI DLLs to load on Windows XP (32 bit).
If I "downgrade" the client it attempts to start. I just cancel afterwards to not cause problems.

The issue is the NEW FFXI DLLs which don't work with older OSes...

And before people say "I reinstalled and it worked" I did reinstall and it DID NOT WORK for me.

[Kaisha]

Found the culprit - Remove ROM9 folder from the FFXI Test Server directory.


Only took a full reinstall and directory compare to figure that out. FFXI won't boot up if that folder exists. ROM9 contains nothing that the game requires to run, so you're safe to move/remove it.

[Unclebill]

Thanks Kaisha - after beating my head on my desk for about 4 hours trying to get the test server going again I finally found this post. After deleting ROM9 game launched correctly first try. Thanks!