ERROR 5006 AND 2002 POTENTIAL FIX

[Leftychaun]

I tried it again this morning. After a reset on my launcher setting and guarenteeing I was in Directx 11 mode I sailed right in.

[Nadirah]

I tried it again this morning. After a reset on my launcher setting and guarenteeing I was in Directx 11 mode I sailed right in.

Doesn't work if you don't have hardware that supports DirectX11.

[Illyrian]

I was finally able to get logged in late last night, after setting at the queue for about 35 min. Today, I am back to getting 2002 errors.

My computer has Windows 7 on it.

[DarkShado]

Hello all!

I am not making any promising it which is why I clearly labeled it a "potential" fix. We have 1 desktop and 1 laptop in my home in which we both play FFXIV (2 different accounts).

On my Windows 7 desktop, I logged in early this morning (11AM EST) with I believe 1 5006 error message, but it went away after retrying once. The Windows 8 laptop had no issues connecting at all. Played for about 1-2 hours and disconnected.

Fast forward to now around 8PM-9PM EST and the Windows 8 laptop couldn't connect. The Windows 7 desktop instantly connected without any issues, but the Windows 8 laptop kept getting disconnected with 2002 and 5006 errors. I tried a ipconfig /flushdns command on the Windows 8 laptop and that didn't work. I tried troubleshooting by using different wifi connections, that didn't help either. I reconnected multiple times on the Windows 7 machine without issues, but yet the Windows 8 machine would not connect ever with ~90% of the messages being 2002 errors. So, we tested to see if trying a different data center would connect.

We connected to another data center without any issues on the Windows 8 laptop. Then pressed the bottom left X at the character selection screen and changed the data center back to where the Windows 8 laptop's characters were, and it connected!

I am thinking this could be a caching issue with data centers... but I cannot confirm this. Can other people try this and see if it fixing their issue? So to repeat in 3 steps:

1) Choose a different data center at the main screen and it will connect after you press the button.
2) If it does connect, press X and to back to main screen
3) Choose your original data center at the main screen and press the button and hopefully it connects...

If it doesn't, I am sorry if I got anyone's hopes up, but this is what worked for us. It is possible it was just luck... but maybe not...

This is garbage it does NOT work.. a 2002 error is because too many people are logging in at the same
time.

This will NOT fix the error you just happened to get lucky and get in none of this fixes the problem.
Ignore this thread!

[SicariusSeven]

This is garbage it does NOT work.. a 2002 error is because too many people are logging in at the same
time.

This will NOT fix the error you just happened to get lucky and get in none of this fixes the problem.
Ignore this thread!

No. See it works for some of us. As annoying as it is. We do get in with these methods. We'd all like it if this problem was fixed but SE won't do anything. So we have to go with the band aid fixes.

[OmegaNemesis28]

Definitely not working for Aether. I switch to Primal no problem, can't go back to Aether.

[Alindra]

This WORKS!!! Two times back to back I got to my character screen. Thanks for the info~

Worked for me too!

[Magnificent]

I was playing perfectly this morning till about an hour ago! I decided to log back on and I was welcomed by error 2002 T.T What a pain.

[Belgamin]

There is no playing only zuul.

[Amdonim]

Changing DNS server to google's fixed this problem for me so far.