Thread: Unable to Run After Patch 4.2 / Unable to install game

Thanks. I'll give it a shot.

Originally Posted by Mynaria

Well, I managed to get things working again somehow through multiple trials.

The last thing I did was restart, changed the compatibility of ffxivboot.exe file in: SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\boot to windows xp sp 3 mode, as well as unchecking the read only option on both the ffxiv folder in my documents/my games/ as well as the ffxiv installation folder. Maybe that'll help.

UPDATE: This seemed to work! I finally got past that second progress bar!

I had to modify the FFXIV_BOOT.cfg and change "StartupCompleted" from 0 to 1 because even tho I told the program I already had a squareenix account that is active and subscribed, its response was the following:



It really seems like the QA team could do some better testing on different platforms and have the dev team do some polishing up of their code.

This whole system needs to be streamlined much better.

I am currently here and heading of to school / work (wish me luck and hopefully everything goes well):


P.S. - Can't believe I went through all of those other troubleshooting steps when compatibility mode (something SE specifically says to DISABLE) and a Read-Only attribute on the mygames directory were the issue. Come on guys x'D - I love you Square but you can do better than this.