FFXI Download

I was wondering if there was a website I could get the files from to install ffxi on my laptop. I have the download from direct2drive that gives me the game up to abyssea, but not seekers. I downloaded seekers off of the SE online store and I keep getting an error message every time I try to start the installer. "there is no such archive" is the message I get.

I think they posted a link to the client here which redirects to this page here...

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/download/media/install_win.html

...should be the latest client sans-last-update maybe no?

EDIT: Maybe save a copy of that locally in case they ever remove that link (they remove it every now and then at the close of these 'Welcome Back' campaigns...)

Pretty sure thats the file i keep getting the error message with. Not sure why it isnt working. My laptop is basically brand new so it should have no problem downloading or installing the game.

Yah, the tag (on the top page at least) indicates it being the "Ultimate Collection Seekers Edition"--so sadly not sure what is preventing the install.

Maybe because it is in sections and all the files need to be in the same folder location? I don't know for sure, sorry...might be an OS thing. ;_;

Because you need to download all of the files (and fully) that message is saying that it can't find the file (either it's not there or corrupt/incomplete).

Also, don't use IE to download it.

http://gdl.square-enix.com/ffxi/download/us/FFXISETUP.exe
http://gdl.square-enix.com/ffxi/download/us/FINALFANTASYXI.Data.001
http://gdl.square-enix.com/ffxi/download/us/FINALFANTASYXI.Data.002
http://gdl.square-enix.com/ffxi/download/us/FINALFANTASYXI.Data.003

need all 4 of the files, use a download manager if your connection is total crap (newer browsers handle http transfers better at least.

Oh, that's the US client, need these for the EU client:

http://gdl.square-enix.com/ffxi/download/eu/FFXISETUP.exe
http://gdl.square-enix.com/ffxi/download/eu/FINALFANTASYXI.Data.001
http://gdl.square-enix.com/ffxi/download/eu/FINALFANTASYXI.Data.002
http://gdl.square-enix.com/ffxi/download/eu/FINALFANTASYXI.Data.003

same concept applies with downloading all 4 files completely then running the installer, it's a self extracting archive, so it will work just from the .exe

They haven't removed it since it's been posted the first time. sorry, they did.

bingo

They have. Removed the links which gave access to the files. People who saved the link URL could re-download them but people without the URL would not be able to download.

The second time they did the free login campaign they left the links there and never removed since.

Oh my bad, I'm sorry. They did remove them that one time, and yeah the links still worked.

Sorry, have had one hell of a headache all morning, apparently my memory is foggy.

I totally deleted ffxi off my laptop and reinstalled it off my d2d account. I still got the same message. So I deleted it all again and downloaded the full version with seekers since it was only 10 dollars anyways and installed the one I downloaded from the se website and still got the same message from 7zip. I use Chrome as my browser, not ie. Installation instructions said just click on the .exe link and it'll install itself but just getting the error message. I'm at work now so I can't really mess around with it to try what you said to do, but I have 4 files downloaded from se's page.

7zip has "strong" checking in the files. Basically you can't unpack data from corrupted files due to how compression works. So it checks each chunk before unpacking (each chunk has means for strong integrity checks). So the files failing unpack imply that some malfunction on your system or even a virus could be damaging the files.

Have your computer checked for faults or virus.

You need all 4 files.

It will still run if XI is already installed it just will only install what you need (does a check and will have the check boxes marked for the expansions you don't have installed).

So no, you can't just click on the .exe link you have to download all 4 files if you just download the .exe it won't have the other 3 files to pull the data from that it needs.

I mean the .exe is 200~ MB the full game installed is what, 12GB now? Think about that for a second.

The IE thing is because it renames the .exe file to something weird and telling people to download it in a proper browser is easier than explaining how to rename a file.

Im having the same problem with that link. it wont finish the download. did that other download client work?

What do you mean by "Strong" intergrity checking ?
AFAIK it is using CRC32 just like rar and zip.

Also it is possible to unpack data from a corrupted archive however not from the same solid block. bad bytes in block1 one does not corrupt block2 as there is no compression between these blocks.

Also intergrity check does not come before decompression but after
it check if the decompressed data is correct.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

-- edit --
Doh Necro



If you still need the download i can put it on a Gdrive for you