FFXIV data usage?

[Skies]

How does he update his game client?

My guess is "Very, very slowly"

[DoctorMog]

Want to know how much data FFXIV uses?

CTRL+ALT+DEL (before you open FFXIV or it will crash)

In task Manager go to "Performance" Tab

Then "Resource Monitor"

In the "Resource Monitor" Click the "Network" tab.

It will show you the data traffic for every application on your PC, in both (per second) and (total)
** Note, its in BITS per second. NOT Kbps **

You need some math if you want to figure out how much data you are using.

8 Bits = 1 Byte
1024 Bytes = 1 KiloByte
1024 KiloBytes = 1 MegaByte
1024 MegaBytes = 1 GigaByte

[britestar90]

Thank you all for the reassurances! Although I know a lot of the game is already downloaded to the computer I had no idea how much new data is actually being received each time I play. Not nearly as much as I was thinking, thank goodness!

And thank you Doctor Mog on finding out how much data programs use! This will be a great help in helping figure how I can change how I browse the net and play games before I have to change internet services.

[Griss]

How does he update his game client?

My guess is he drives over to Dhalmel's house and copy's the patch file onto a disk or thumb drive. Because lets face it that's probably faster then actually getting the patches over a 56k connection

[Fear]

Or if he's stuck in the 90's he'll go over with a box full of floppy drives (still faster than downloading a few 100mb at 56k)

[Alerith]

Or if he's stuck in the 90's he'll go over with a box full of floppy drives (still faster than downloading a few 100mb at 56k)

Remember 'Oregon Trail' on the big ol' 5 1/2 inch floppy disks?

...I miss elementary computer time.

[Zahak]

That's true lol. I drive it to him xD