Client Patch for 6.58 is now available

500MB or so. Took 90 seconds to download and install on my PC.

Weird, it still lets you turn off DX11. I thought they were phasing out DX9 with this patch.

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Originally Posted by DiaDeem

Weird, it still lets you turn off DX11. I thought they were phasing out DX9 with this patch.

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I'm not seeing the toggle for this. Maybe they pushed the launcher update after your post? In any case, the dx9 game executable was deleted so the game would not run in dx9 anyway.

Idk why they even bother with these empty patches

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Originally Posted by Bun_Vivant

500MB or so. Took 90 seconds to download and install on my PC.

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90 seconds? That's a minute and a half. It took me between 1 and 2 seconds to download. I'm not trying to shame you or anything, but you might want to look at upgrading your bandwidth if possible.

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Originally Posted by Sove92

I'm not seeing the toggle for this. Maybe they pushed the launcher update after your post? In any case, the dx9 game executable was deleted so the game would not run in dx9 anyway.

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Yeah, nvm I think I was early. Toggle is gone and DX9 has died.

I'm seeing the item for tome weapon upgrades in game purchasable with coins from the raids but not seeing it as an option with Nuts at the hunt vendor. Anyone know if it's normally released at this time as an upgrade too?

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

I'm seeing the item for tome weapon upgrades in game purchasable with coins from the raids but not seeing it as an option with Nuts at the hunt vendor. Anyone know if it's normally released at this time as an upgrade too?

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You can only get the divine solvent via the 24 man coins. A weapon upgrade item was never available from using nuts.

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Originally Posted by GoatOfWar

Idk why they even bother with these empty patches

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Fixes and adjustments made after content patches. They're not meant to be content patches. Sounded like this one had some infrastructure things in, too.

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Originally Posted by SailorCeti

90 seconds? That's a minute and a half. It took me between 1 and 2 seconds to download. I'm not trying to shame you or anything, but you might want to look at upgrading your bandwidth if possible.

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To download 500MB in 2 seconds would require a bandwidth of approximately 2.5GBit/s. Very, very, few if any ISPs anywhere even offer that kind of bandwidth. 500MB in 90 seconds corresponds to an effective bandwidth of about 50Mbit/s which is far more normal, and while not great is quite sufficient for most people.

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Originally Posted by DiaDeem

DX9 has died.

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and nothing of value was lost

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Originally Posted by ryouma17

and nothing of value was lost

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There's one person with a stupid old PC or some really weird/niche use case that is mega upset about this, maybe even cancelled their subscription. I remember the WoW forums when Blizzard killed Windows XP, Windows 7, DirectX 9 and 32-bit support... always that one person.

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Originally Posted by Johners

There's one person with a stupid old PC or some really weird/niche use case that is mega upset about this, maybe even cancelled their subscription. I remember the WoW forums when Blizzard killed Windows XP, Windows 7, DirectX 9 and 32-bit support... always that one person.

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Lots of people see the executable name on crash, ffxiv_dx11.exe and assume all their problems are with DX11 (rarely the case, the exe just has dx11 in its name) and they change to DX9, that either doesn't crash or is at least more stable (the DX9 executable name was also ffxiv.exe, so obviously when that crashes, it's not a DX issue!). Then, when changing to DX9 seemingly does solve their issue, they never actually bother looking for the underlying cause, becasue treating the symptom has worked.

Changing to DX9 was also a common troubleshooting step by the community despite support ending years ago...

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Originally Posted by GoatOfWar

Idk why they even bother with these empty patches

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It's not an "empty patch". It's pretty much setting the game into a state so it's ready for the next expansion. They added a few things related to upcoming events, some "catch up" things, probably infrastructure having to do with the cross DC testing starting on Sunday, and random little things. It's probably the last patch barring any hot fixes.