Play online error

[Corinthian_Seraph]

Is anyone able to get on final fantasy? If so how do you fix this stupid error? Sorry for the stupid question.

[Byrthnoth]

It's hard to know when you don't say what error you're experiencing, but this is probably relevant:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...261#post532261

[Corinthian_Seraph]

Sorry for being very vague, after clicking on play On the play online viewer I get a popup that reads "Please wait while Windows configures final fantasy 11" And the bar does not move at all.

[Byrthnoth]

Okay. Go and confirm that your ffxi.dll has been deleted so that you know you're a victim of your antivirus program.

[Corinthian_Seraph]

By doing check files for final fantasy 11?

[NynJa]

By using file explorer and going to program files\POL\SE\FFXI

[Corinthian_Seraph]

Thanks for the help, you can delete this thread I am just not good at computers and I forgot about that one it has been four years sense playing final fantasy. Totally forgot about antivirus thinking that was a virus

[Fireon]

I got this same thing and I don't know how to fix it. I tried grabbing another FFXi.dll from another source but POL is still saying it's not installed. Should I just suck it up, uninstall everything and then reinstall? Will my personal settings be safe?

[Nem0]

When i had this problem i was able to reinstall the file from the antivirus program i use on this pc.

[Fireon]

I use McAfee, which is stupid and automatically deletes all "malware" it finds.

[NynJa]

Well maybe you should not be using a stupid anti-virus?

[Malithar]

I've used Avast for as long as I can remember. Dunno if I should feel good or unsafe that it didn't have this outcome that everyone else is having.

[Celebrindor]

I've always found that the non commercial antivirus software is more gaming friendly. Norton, McAfee, etc seem to assume too much until you set exceptions. I wouldn't worry.

[Fireon]

Eh, it doesn't matter any more. I bit the bullet and spent an hour uninstalling everything and re-installing everything, after spending 30 minutes backing up my entire POL directory. Once I had that ONE FILE (FFXi.dll) I just recopied everything back and it worked like a charm.

I sucks that I couldn't just do a check files in the POL viewer, since not having the FFXi.dll was enough to convince POL that it didn't exist.

[Hitou]

If McAfee doesn't have a Virus vault or something that lets you restore removed files, then I'd definitely switch to something less stupid.