SE update fails

ok i got annoyed after 4 hours of downloading over night i only got to 0.8% most of the time downloading nothing and uploading upto 4mb/s so i had a little poke around. for this you need a torrent program, my fav is uTorrent, also you have to have started the update process via the game first then close it down


so if you go to the following folder in the image bellow (the graey'd out but is your PC login name)

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...ng/Folders.png

"C:\Users\{user}\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV\downloads\ffxiv\48eca647"

go into the "metainfo" folder and locate te torrent file, one with the newest date is the current one trying to download

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...ntlocation.png

ok now put this torrent file into your favorite torrent program and compare the differences

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...ing/Speeds.png
uTorrent - 1mb/s +
Web Source - 31.1kb/s
FFXIV DL - 25.3kb/s
Torrent Tracker: http://track01.ffxiv.com:54997/announce

now once the torrent has finished locate the .patch file you just downloaded via your torrent program and copy to
"C:\Users\{user}\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV\downloads\ffxiv\48eca647\patch"

run the game and install the update

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...g/Complete.png

now what way would you choose?

SO......... my question to SE is WTF are you doing to make patch downloads sooooooooooooo god damn slow using torrents?

is it safe to do it this way ?

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Originally Posted by Nouran

is it safe to do it this way ?

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It's essentially the same, but you're using a faster torrent client than the FFXIV updater; otherwise, it's the same files.

the link is not working

it will get rejected then it should go after that

Not sure if this is the correct place to be posting about doing things the non conventional way...

You know... being the Official game forums and all. I'm pretty sure a dev's gonna step in once they get caught up with the mess from last night.

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Originally Posted by AreeyaJaidee

Funny: I've always used XIVs built in updater and I've never had a single issue.

Ive even had 3 computers updating from the same connection at the same time and never had these issues.

Sounds like ppls ISP are screwing them over, not SE.

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its not my ISP at all when you see in the third imae i posted that at the same time the torrent program downloads faster and was run at the same time:-
uTorrent - 1mb/s +
FFXIV DL - 25.3kb/s

also having a dedicated 100mb internet connection with 0 restrictions and downloading at 30kbps while a torent program downloads at over 1bmps i think it reflects on the client program that is the problem

i have proven its SE's issue not my ISP, have tested on other ISP's and getting the same results. downloading the same file with the same trackr using 2 different clients and one is running waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay slower than the other one, hmmm i think alot of people would agree that the problem lies with the ffxiv updater

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Originally Posted by buritoslicer

Not sure if this is the correct place to be posting about doing things the non conventional way...

You know... being the Official game forums and all. I'm pretty sure a dev's gonna step in once they get caught up with the mess from last night.

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basically its SE's patch file from SE's tracker so all is legit. SE need to start doing things properly and stop sucking at things. i posted this to show SE they have an issue with the updater, i have proved it and i REALLY hope they will do something about it. but knowing SE they will fo nothing about it

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Originally Posted by buritoslicer

Not sure if this is the correct place to be posting about doing things the non conventional way...

You know... being the Official game forums and all. I'm pretty sure a dev's gonna step in once they get caught up with the mess from last night.

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It seems to me that the official updater causes a lot of gripe for many people- I spent at least twice as long not downloading as I did downloading with the FFXIV updater.

But this isn't a hack or anything, it's just using a different tool for the same goal. I don't view that as being an illegal way to obtain a file, unless the use of outside torrents are what cause the lag for the official updater.

(Edit: Someone posted about a minute before me while I was typing! But slightly different posts.)