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.