Error 194 message in Japanese

[Cird]

Good day here. I've been playing this game since last year and I had no issues until recently. When I started the game, I was able to log in. But when I clicked play, the Japanese error message for error 194 appeared and the client shut down. As a result, I can't play the game. I've reinstalled the game and also the graphics card driver, but nothing is working.

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

[Votraftur]

Good morning! Thank you for posting in the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

The described issue may have something to do with your locally-saved settings. Please go to 'My Documents' > 'My Games' > 'Final Fantasy XIV' and delete that folder. If there are any corrupted files that are associated only with that character, this will get rid of them. Right click on the folder itself after deleting the contents, if it is set as read only, please uncheck that and re-launch Final Fantasy XIV.

If this does not solve the issue, try doing a clean boot. To do a clean boot simply open the task manager and select the 'Start up' Tab. Disable everything here and restart the PC. This will make sure that no background processes are interfering with the game.

Please be sure to install the game to the C: drive as this works best with Final Fantasy XIV. Lastly, please be sure that no background processes are interfering with FFXIV (i.e. Anti-virus software, OneDrive, Discord etc.)

Thank you once again for visiting the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums!

[Cird]

Finally solved this the hard way. Reformatting my PC and allowing One Drive to run while the game was running for the first time solved it. With that being said, I'll keep what Votraftur said in mind. Thanks.

[Votraftur]

Good morning! Thank you for posting in the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

I am glad to hear that are you are no longer experiencing this issue. If you have any more questions or concerns, please make a new thread in the technical support forums.

This thread will be moved to "Closed Concerns”. Thank you once more for visiting the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums!