Unable to complete version check

[aabe]

I had this game running on my laptop months ago before HW but now it's not working
Unable to complete version check
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I looked around here for some posts saying to reboot, modify FFXIV_BOOT.cfg and neither of those worked, so I uninstalled, rebooted again and DLed the setup from the website. But now I'm still getting the above error, does anybody know a fix for this?

[Risvertasashi]

This is a nasty one. Got it once and I'm still not sure what fixed it. Just tried everything in those googleable posts, more than once, only started working again when I stepped away for 30 minutes and came back.

Do try the "right click > run as administrator" one though, that's easy enough.

[aabe]

This is a nasty one. Got it once and I'm still not sure what fixed it. Just tried everything in those googleable posts, more than once, only started working again when I stepped away for 30 minutes and came back.

Do try the "right click > run as administrator" one though, that's easy enough.

Yeah I've run as admin a few times and it hasn't ever worked. It's a pain in the ass; I used to get it on my desktop but it would work just fine after closing the launcher and trying again.

[aabe]

Welp
Uninstalled again, turned off my PC. Got up and did something else for a bit and came back, tried again, worked.

I guess that's a pretty magical solution.