LOGIN ERROR: "A system error has occurred: -2146697208"

[Cantontai]

When trying to log into FFXIV I get this error message, I took a screen shot to show you. Prior to this happening the start up would just show a black screen until I went into properties and ran the program in compatibility mode. Regardless of what I do I keep getting this error when trying to run FFXIV. Any help or direction is greatly appreciated.
I also tried this from a Reddit link I found online.
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...r_has_occured/

http://i1.minus.com/jh5TpvicRM5Ws.PNG

[Cantontai]

Fixed it myself, Avast was blocking this url when the startup started www.frontier.ffxiv.com i simply added it to avasts ignore list and it worked.

[Raist]

That's a generic error for your browser loosing connection. Could be a host of things... it often seems to be something in Internet Explorer (basically what the launcher is based on). Reset IE to defaults, then go into the advanced properties and scroll down to the encryption section (SSL, TLS, etc.) and make sure all the encryption is flagged for use--forget all of them, but it's like 5 or so (SSL2.0, SSL3.0, TLS 1.0, etc.). Then clear your browser cache so that it tries to pull fresh scripts. Those seem to be common things players have done in the past.

If it is still knackering up, then you'll want to look at your security. If you haven't created exceptions for the FFXIV executables, may want to go ahead and add them. If you have already added them, may need to update the rules (sometimes when a file changes from a patch, security will clamp down on it). May want to add a wildcard entry for the frontier.ffxiv.com site as well (where the browser is trying to connect) as a trusted site in your security and possibly browser as well.

Edit: BAH!.. OP posted it was resolved as I was typing this. lol

[reillyblair]

well i get this problem was working fine last night have done all those changes and rebooted my router and pc

[YoloSwaggins]

I'm getting this same problem as well right now. . . tried a lot of the fixes people have posted online and nothing has worked so far.


Edit: I can't even access the lodestone website right now. Is this the same for others?

[Diana_Pepper]

Opened FF14 to this... 'lovely' error. I've also tried multiple things online to fix it (resetting modem, flushing dns, changing internet explorer options, etc) but no results. :/

[Layfon]

Same issue but code is -2146697211. Tried everything under the sun mentioned about these errors and no fix. Can only access lodestone etc from 4g phone.

[reillyblair]

why is the launcher version saying 2015.01.09.0000.0001 would have thought it would be the one from april not january is it maybe corrupt or something

[Aphel]

Error -2146697211, can't access lodestone page either.

[Kaitlen]

Any of you tried the fix that was published recently:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...1acf43974ec41d

Just an idea if you haven't looked at this already.