Thread: Constant packet loss since patch 6.3

More issues tonight on BT, having to use Exitlag to get around this problem - a subscription I don't want to have to pay for to play this game.

This thrice-damned error makes me want to uninstall and never return. No amount of troubleshooting fixes this pos error and it's never addressed when a patch unleashes it on everyone.

Also having problems since 6.35.

I commented on the other thread linked earlier in this one about the memory leaks and almost a month later, I am still experiencing the same issues. It seems to be totally random and is happening across many different zones and instances. Some days I can play totally fine, others I cannot.

Game locks up, memory usage spikes to 99%, then either recovers after 20s-1 min or does not, and either crashes or I am forced to hard restart the game. No 3rd party tools, my FPS is locked to 60 and my settings are below what I know my machine can handle.

Please at least acknowledge this is a problem, Square!

Seems worse for me since the 6.38 patch. i am seeing people freeze more often outside of duties, and GCDs also are not registering once again…
So annoying. :/

I've been having connection issues with Crystal and Dynamis data centers since Saturday. So that's 3 days prior to the 6.38 update. Tracert has been indicating it's ntt.net or the data centers themselves. At first I thought maybe some preliminary work was being done prior to the big server upgrades, but nothing has changed after the upgrade. Every single time I connect to Crystal or Dynamis I get constant lag spikes. The red pokeball is now a minion that checks on me every 10-20 seconds. It doesn't matter what time of day, it appears to be packet losses happening all the time. Dungeons, trials, and raids are very unpleasant because I miss half of what's going on. Frontline is worse because the game actually drops connection about once a minute.
Standard stuff: only FFXIV, experiencing no connection issues with any other online game or any other internet content, when = genuinely always since the beginning of April.

Having this issue too. Did trace route to neolobby06.ffxiv.com and got node which is consistently timing out:

7 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms s-b3-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.174.226]
8 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms s-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.118.108]
9 41 ms 40 ms 40 ms ffm-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.138.105]
10 40 ms 41 ms 41 ms ffm-b11-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.124.119]
11 41 ms 41 ms 41 ms squareenix-svc079850-lag003672.c.telia.net [80.239.195.85]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 41 ms 40 ms 40 ms 80-239-145-6.teliacarrier-cust.com [80.239.145.6]

So this is definitely issue on SE end. Game is quite unplayable now, can't even do one dungeon w/o disconnecting.

Tho I guess you can't really blame this small indie game company for messing up their networking/infrastructure (: