version update files are corrupted?

[Raist]

Sometimes a mismatch in the version check files throws things out of whack.

Browse to the game folder in your installation folder. By default it should be on a path like this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\game

There should be two files there for ffxivgame, one ends with .ver and the other with .bck. They need to have the same version number in them (can open it in Notepad). Since you haven't patched up yet, it should be an older number. It's basically a date followed by a number string signifying the release number for that day ( 2014.06.12.0000.0001 ). Make sure they both show the older one of the two if they are different.

Now, you need to go up one folder level and into the Boot folder to do the same thing for ffxivboot.ver and ffxivboot.bck.

C:\Program Files (x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\boot

These may have a different date stamp, but again... want them both to show the older of the two if they are different.

Now you are ready to delete your patch downloads. They are under your documents folder, nested in a My Games folder. You want to leave the folder structure intact--you just want to delete the files under the final "patch" folders. There will be two of them buried in a downloads/ffxivpatch/<hexadecimal code>/patch path, sort of like this:

C:\Users\UserName\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\downloads\ffxivpatch\2b5cbc63\patch
C:\Users\UserName\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\downloads\ffxivpatch\4e9a232b\patch

Ideally after a good patching, these will be basically empty except for an info file, named something like this:

D2014.06.12.0000.0001.patch.info

Anything else in these folders should be deleted, but leave the folders there (don't just delete the patch folders, only the files inside them).


Now everything from the last patch attempt should be pretty much reset so you can try again.