[Client Suggestion]File Checker

[Keith_Dragoon]

Here is a pic of a glitched polygon, couldn't find one of some really wierd textures.

That would be the missing floor thing I was talking about except when it hit me an entire zone was without ground until I reinstalled.

Filecheck has been asked for since beta. The topic has been popping up just to die off pretty quick without any visible reaction from the devs. That could either mean they already included it into the 2.0 client, or don't think it's necessary. Take your pick.

@wolfspirit: from what I saw so far, it's more often a corruption issue than anything else. People who had been playing fine pre-patch suddenly end up having random graphic glitches. When re-installing the game helps, then it can't see how it can be a driver issue :x

I figured I'd be the one to revive the dead topic and give it another whirl... during golden week. :P

Stop downloading pron

NEVER!

Like I said its not common that I get this, since like 1.18 I have had almost no issues with corrupted files until the recent update which caused these graphical glitches. Before then it was around Nov/Dec 2010 when I got the gamebreaking corruption that made doing anything at the forementioned places impossible.

[Delsus]

must be one of the very few having this , looks more like a graphic card/driver problem as a corrupt file problem , usely the game wont even start when files are corrupted.
Never had a single corrupt file here nor did i had any graphic problems on my card.


**********There are quite a few graphical problems with the game, I have seen black polygons on the floor, that flash, disapear and reapear, etc some really messed up things there the textures of the environment just look wierd, lemme see if I got a SS of the latter, its hard to explain lol. ************8

This polygon problem and other artifacts are caused by overheated cards usely wich makes me think that the inviseble legs etc is because of the same problem.
I am pretty sure this problem is not the game itself .
those glitches are not caused by corrupt files , either the graph driver has a problem(wich i doubt but is possible) or you card cannot handle the stress or gets too hot .. most likely too hot.

Artifact are always the 1st sign your card is going to fail. check your temps.. if u keep playing with that ,soon you wont have a card anymore .


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have you tried to play it in windowed / fullscreen . does it make a difference?
lower resolution ? lower graph quality ?

That would be the missing floor thing I was talking about except when it hit me an entire zone was without ground until I reinstalled.

I have had the graphics problem for awhile, entire year (atleast) I have had the laptop, it could be a heat problem because the laptop does run hot, and I am probably killing my discreet card, bu meh its switchable I'm sure I won't do too much damage to the integrated GPU, so I'll still beable to use it, just not play this

[wolfsspirit]

Well if its corruption problem ( i won't rule that out), i still find it strange that not everyone has that problem.
Unless he has a very lousy connection maybe.

[Soukyuu]

Well if its corruption problem ( i won't rule that out), i still find it strange that not everyone has that problem.
Unless he has a very lousy connection maybe.

No, since the patcher is based on torrents, it's virtually impossible to download a corrupted archive. Possible reasons are unstable RAM/CPU clocks, or a failing HDD, with the clocks being the more likely reason. I had one of my RAM sticks not handling the timings set by the manufacturer which resulted in random corrupted copy operations once.

[Keith_Dragoon]

Also I have tweaked ALL my graphical settings and everything else in FFXIV Config when i did have these issues and they still persisted until reinstalling. Just because YOU have never heard of something does not mean it does not exist nor does it devalue the experiences others may have with said issue.

Regardless of that this is something this game could benefit from and not be harmed in any way so i see no reason not to have it added sooner or later.

[Soukyuu]

Why does it have to be any of web-based technologies? What's wrong with an actual INGAME login screen? As for filecheck, just integrate it into the patcher/launcher part of the game. And just use a native windows GUI for it, I don't see why it has to be rendered in 3D.

[Keith_Dragoon]

Why does it have to be any of web-based technologies? What's wrong with an actual INGAME login screen? As for filecheck, just integrate it into the patcher/launcher part of the game. And just use a native windows GUI for it, I don't see why it has to be rendered in 3D.

I like this one, seems simple enough.

[Delsus]

I agree the game could need it.

Also @mushy, I have never had any flash based problems, also the only reason flash is dying is because of the new HTML5 standard supporting most things flash does, however flash will still be used for other things, the reason people use flash for MMO launchers is because it is relatively easy to program and alot of companies already have people to code for flash for thier websites.

It does have a fair bit of life yet.

[Keith_Dragoon]

Added another picture of pants error.

[Valmonte]

Ive got a 1.5 TB WD black Edition drive, i've narrowed down my missing Textures to none other than fragmented files. if it takes too long to load, the client seems to just stop trying. I've fixed this by getting Auslogics Disk Defrag and performing the Defrag&Optimize files option.

(Auslogics is free and works wonders, its much better and faster than the ancient Sysinternals Disk Defrag windows uses.)