Did they fix the updater?

Omg i logged in today and every single time there is an update i HAVE to get the update through a torrent, because FFXIV's updater is complete garbage. Today however i started up the updater like normal just to get the magnet link for my torrent file and while i was starting my torrent program up to recieve the file i went back to the updater to see that i have had 6 remote connections (I have never been able to get a remote connection before) and 24 local conections. Has anyone else noticed improvement in the updater as well? did they finally fix it?

The updater has been working better since a few patches ago in my experience. I've found a standard BT client to be faster, but it looks like the official updater will actually finish in a more reasonable amount of time now.

11 remote, 13 local atm, going between 2.5k - 3.5k download, I have 40mb connection and all ports forwarded, I think someone hates me :(

Utorrent is even worse hovering between 1.2 - 1.9k :'(

Update - 28 remote, 12 local and still the same d/l rate /sigh

U:130kb/s
D:480kb/s

connections remote: 9, local: 7
and by the time this finish posting it's updated c:

oh and this is via the FFXIV client, not a 3rd party torrent client.

It has been working better for me the last few patches as well.

the updaters a joke, has been ever since game was released, every patch i sit here waiting for it to finish.. oh wait i mean start... please for the love of god can someone post a direct download link for this patch pretty please :)

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Originally Posted by Kyra

the updaters a joke, has been ever since game was released, every patch i sit here waiting for it to finish.. oh wait i mean start... please for the love of god can someone post a direct download link for this patch pretty please :)

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You may be having quite a bit more problems if it doesn't even start for you.

I'd say they improved it a while ago since updates finished really fast.

This one is being really slow though. Maybe it's something with my internet... I'll give it some time.

It's even worse for me on this patch than it normally is.....
I'm still downloading almost 2 hours later and only at 21.9% >_>

Edit: Koko it's exactly the same for me.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

You may be having quite a bit more problems if it doesn't even start for you.

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Not neccesarily. Many people have problems with being stuck at 0kb/s
Sometimes the patcher works fine for me and I get speeds of 800+kb/s. Sometimes I'm stuck with it not doing anything.

Now that many don't log in or quit, your download speed should be fine.

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Originally Posted by Lurex

Now that many don't log in or quit, your download speed should be fine.

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That's quite the opposite of P2P lol.

I've never had any issues with the downloader. Tonight I had a good speed and was done within 3-5 min if even that.

Sorry you're having issues.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

You may be having quite a bit more problems if it doesn't even start for you.

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Dont troll me with your level 11 pug account. its probably you main account actualy.

Cmon.... hurry up and download so i can get off these stupid forums.

Never had a problem. My stuff downloads in like 3 minutes every time.

Updater is just as terrible as it always has been for me. Really is a dealbreaker for me when it takes hours to download patches. Ports are open, firewall gets disabled while I patch, tried everything and the updater still sucks.

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Originally Posted by Kyra

Dont troll me with your level 11 pug account. its probably you main account actualy.

Cmon.... hurry up and download so i can get off these stupid forums.

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This is how you get off the forums:

http://i41.tinypic.com/2rwqgee.jpg

And if you're too lazy to do that, click the X located in the top right of your browser:

http://i42.tinypic.com/jfyjjt.jpg

Learn to use it and no one is trolling you (you used troll incorrectly), look at the post above yours, if you have issues starting a downloading it's on your end.

As always it's a mixed bag. A friend of mine cannot get the update at all, either through the updater or through utorrent.

Can anyone please grab the .patch file that gets downloaded to the Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV\downloads\ffxiv\48eca647\patch folder and upload it to somewhere? I almost instinctively said megaupload but I forgot they got partyv&'d.

Edit: Be sure to grab it before you start patching. The FFXIV updater deletes the patch file after it finishes patching. :/

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Originally Posted by Bahn

As always it's a mixed bag. A friend of mine cannot get the update at all, either through the updater or through utorrent.

Can anyone please grab the .patch file that gets uploaded to the Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV\downloads\ffxiv\48eca647\patch folder and upload it to somewhere? I almost instinctively said megaupload but I forgot they got partyv&'d.

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If someone else doesn't do it by time I get back inside sure, since it was only 48mb so mediafire should do just fine.

Actually, is there a way to force the updater to re-download the update? I remember it involved editing some file so that it didn't have the same version number as the current update to make the game "think" it requires an update. Don't remember offhand the specifics of it.

If it doesnt work for you use a torrenting program, dont go online to look for a link because that is fairly unsafe u can get the magnet link of the patch file from your game when u just first start up the updater, u find it in your
Documents >> mygames >> FFXIV >> downloads >> FFXIV >> 48eca647 >> metainfo, that is where your magnet link is

here is a video to show you how to do it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UwFYQFDOL4

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Originally Posted by Bahn

Actually, is there a way to force the updater to re-download the update? I remember it involved editing some file so that it didn't have the same version number as the current update to make the game "think" it requires an update. Don't remember offhand the specifics of it.

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Hm, I'm not sure I know in FFXI you just deleted a relevant .dat (like a body armor) and force file check and that forces the download.

http://www.mediafire.com/?2jl8r9gq0glrhnv

You can try this out, I'm not sure if I did this correctly though haha, I just grabbed the folder real quick from hooking up to teamviewer.

At least you guys can download the update, though slow; my college has torrenting completely blocked, so I am unable to officially download the game's patches, having to rely completely on other uploading the patch on direct downloads website.

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Originally Posted by Kyra

Dont troll me with your level 11 pug account. its probably you main account actualy.

Cmon.... hurry up and download so i can get off these stupid forums.

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I like where this is going

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Originally Posted by Montjuleant

At least you guys can download the update, though slow; my college has torrenting completely blocked, so I am unable to officially download the game's patches, having to rely completely on other uploading the patch on direct downloads website.

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My college blocks them too, but I once happened to be in the IT department on an errand for my boss, and just happened to idly mention how frustrating it was that my new game couldn't update because it used P2P. After that I just have to e-mail someone every time there was an update. Still, the connection speed is so slow that it's almost worth it for me to wait til a weekend and drive home. v_v

I've always felt like the updater should be smart enough to realize it can't get any P2P connections, and then switch to an old-fashioned direct download.

You should try contacting your IT department. If yours is anything like mine, the IT department is never helpful; but once you find the ones who leave their IT job to play video games for 10 hours... sometimes you can win. :P

The updater is "working better" because peer to peer isn't used on the minor patches.

For months i couldn't use the updater and i was forced to get torrents and direct downloads from TehKrizz. It started working properly again with the 1.19 update. So random.

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Originally Posted by Bowen

I like where this is going

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Bowen, you don't have a 50, you're not allowed to have an opinion :p

On-topic: The downloader has worked well for me since 1.20, a lot better than bittorrent.

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Originally Posted by Masamune1004

Bowen, you don't have a 50, you're not allowed to have an opinion :p

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Bah, I can't be bothered to level anything past 30. :P

Once I get my computer back in shape I'll get them all to 30.
(And maybe a few crafting classes but, don't count on it. :P)

Smaller patches like these always go quickly. Its the big ones that causes the issues for some.

I haven't had trouble with the official updater since July 2010. Not even the main number patches give me problems.