Can I prevent the opening movie from starting?

When the game starts and goes to the splash screen (showing: 'start', 'opening movie', 'configuration', 'exit'), and I remain inactive for a while, the opening movie automatically starts.

Unfortunately my PC (Windows 8 Pro N) does not have the codec to play that movie. If the game attempts to start the movie, it gets stuck in a black screen with a white, spinning wheel in the lower right corner. When this happens I have to press Alt+F4 to close the game altogether. It is currently impossible to get that codec for Windows 8 Pro N (I cursed Microsoft when I found out about that), so there's no way for me to fix this problem.

Instead, I would like a way to prevent the opening movie from showing completely.
If anyone knows of a way, I would be very grateful.

Not in my knowledge, I want to stop it as well, I tried everything but nothing seems to work.

In the file FFXIV.cfg there's the following line:

Code:

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CutsceneMovieCaption        4294967295

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I'm assuming these are bitflags for showing cutscenes or not (32 of them by the looks of it, though that number may simply be due to the size of a regular integer) because the binary number is 11111111111111111111111111111111.
I could try playing around with that.

Has anyone tried that? If so, does it do what I thought it would?

So I tried

Code:

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CutsceneMovieCaption        0

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turning all bit flags off, and the game still attempts to show the movie, locking the game in a black screen.

Any suggestions?

It's physically impossible to get that codec? Even via a third party codec suite (such as k-lite?)

I find it amazing that in this day and age such a problem can exist.

I agree. I tried K-Lite after a friend suggested it, but to no avail.
Microsoft is just being ridiculous for not providing it to Europe.

Have you tried using a stern voice and a squirt bottle every time the scene starts? Sometimes all you need is a little punishment to get the results you're after.

If that doesn't work, just zoom your camera out more.

8 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=30685
8.1 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=40744 ?

Thanks ZohnoReecho. I tried these before, but they are not for the Pro version of Windows 8 N. It gives me the error: "The update is not applicable to your computer."

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