Patching

[Mirage]

Yeah, I suspect there is a lot of overhead in those patches we get.

A tip for future reference: If you ever need to reinstall the game like on a different computer or after a reinstall, save the ff11 files you have, and copy/paste them over the new FF11 installation after you install that. Then all you need to do is run a file check on the new FF11 installation and the game will most likely work.

[Kaisha]

POL's patching system is slow because it has you download every, single, file, individually. That and they have a download speed cap last I checked.

[Arcon]

The main drawback is definitely the speed cap. The individual file downloads are not as big of a drawback as it used to be in the past. Re-establishing a connection with today's optimized server software and generally faster connections has very low latency and will generally take an insignificant amount of time. If you do it over 40k times (as you'll need to do with a clean install) then you'll notice it, but for an average update I doubt it adds more than a minute or two to the total download time.

[Waldrich]

Says around 9 hours left, anyone know what could be causing it to take forever? Or is there 10 years of patching happening? XD

(Downloading doesn't seem to be going slow, the bar on the top below individual items is filling up instantly on the .DAT files, but I guess 24K files is going to take a while...)

Just make sure to save ROM's folders on a seperated folder so you'll never need to update all again.

Well,Mirage told it before me hehe.

Yeah, I suspect there is a lot of overhead in those patches we get.

A tip for future reference: If you ever need to reinstall the game like on a different computer or after a reinstall, save the ff11 files you have, and copy/paste them over the new FF11 installation after you install that. Then all you need to do is run a file check on the new FF11 installation and the game will most likely work.

yeah, and for some weird reason you still need to download like 1~2k files haha.

[Mirage]

Depends entirely on how recent your install was. Usually, i end up with less than 50 files that require updating, unless there has been a version update between my old installation's files and when I reinstall it.

[RAIST]

speed cap? what is this speed cap? If they have one, it's pretty high, as I see mine start off at a minimum of 3Mb/s (sometimes over 6) And no this isn't a perceived speed, I actually track the speed of the connection and it often averages out between 900-1200 kbps in the end on a large update, higher on smaller ones. The initial speeds are in-line with what I often see when downloading other stuff from JP because of the high latency to the servers in general. Each individual file zips down in no time, often spiking above 1Mb/s if it's a larger file....it's the constant verify/handshake crap for each file that bogs down the average throughput.