Any way to fix game files without completely reinstalling?

[Eldevern]

If I remember properly, there were a thread about reinstalling the game without downloading everything.

From what I remember, you go in the se ffxiv folder (in programs).
Save the "game" folder
More or less deleted everything in "boot" folder
Launch a reinstall from the installer
As soon as it start to download the game again (after the client be updated), stop it. Update "game" folder with the old "game" folder and relaunch the install, it should find the game files.


If not, you probably need to delete everything that is not movie and sqpack folders. The install will put the deleted files back. The folders shouldn't change. This said, be carefull, all fileinfos can be corrupted by these actions (if the new ones don't match the old ones). I'm not sure but if it doesn't work, game files are maybe compressed, in that case, there is nothing to faster things, you have to do a brand new install.

You can do a simple test : copy everything in a save folder. Launch full brand new install. Watch the files in the folder. If the downloaded games files aren't as the ones you saved, you have to do a full brand new reinstall.