Slow load times

[SpensaKholin]

Since Endwalker Early Access, I've been plagued with slow loading of NPCs, players, monsters, quest targets, and cutscenes. I load into an area, following a teleport/instance/cutscene, and it takes one to ten minutes for anything interactable to appear. I run/ride to another spot in the area, and there's often nothing to target for a few minutes. It hasn't mattered when I play or how populated the area, the loading delay has been roughly the same. By the official release, everything was taking 20-30 minutes to load.

In an attempt to fix it, I attempted to validate the files via Steam and it deleted some boot files. I reinstalled, and the issue was dramatically improved, but it's slowly worsening. Today, I ran Praetorium. Everyone ran twice my speed. Cutscenes took a minute or two to load, and the voice acting only played for two of them, once they were half-done. I was unable to fight the Colossus, Gaius, 2nd Ultima or Lahabrea at all. I had maybe 10 seconds of time in Nero and 1st Ultima, but had nothing to target as the mobs didn't load.



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[SpensaKholin]

Update:

Rebooted my PC. Windows automatically repaired a portion of C:. Open areas seemed to load faster, but I queue for MSQ Roulette. I load into Castrum Meridianum, see my whole party, the Search Light interactables, and the mobs. The other tank only pulls from the search lights. After the first cutscene, the party's at the first boss...and I barely have time to click "Teleport into area" before I'm hit with the next cutscene. Nothing loads to be targetted until the first Livia battle and the second phase is over before I come out of the cutscene between.
Afterwards, I fly to FATEs in the new areas, and the mobs aren't loaded in to target until a minute after I arrive, roughly 10:30a CST today (Wed).

Not sure what else I can do. Drivers appear to all be updated. All Win10 updates installed. I've reinstalled. I've put all my graphics settings to as minimal as possible. I no longer have a mobile hotspot to test if it's my home's wifi. I can't switch to a wired internet connection. I don't have the funds to acquire a SSD or new PC with one.

[Dynratygus]

Good morning nd thank you for posting in the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums

If you have not done so already, can you try the following port forwarding instructions:

- Check the following Port Ranges on your router/modem to ensure that they have been opened:
▼TCP
54992 through 54994,
55006 through 55007,
55021 through 55040

Thank you for visiting the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums

[SpensaKholin]

I've set up the ports to be opened, but due to others using wifi, I cannot reset the router to accept changes until after 9p CST.

UPDATE: I've correctly set up the port forwarding and have a reserved internal IP for my desktop PC. However, port checking sites report FFXIV's ports as closed, and over a dozen of the common ports are reported as closed as well.

UPDATE 2: Apparently, my ISP (Cox Communications) blocks most ports to "protect bandwidth, customers, and the internet." and unblocking them requires paying a fee for their "Advanced Support". Not something we're capable of doing at the moment.

Thank you.