Whitegate "broken"? for some of us after update

[Utau]

After all the messed up of Nexus Cape and crashes with spellcast/recast there is one problem is happening for some ppl now, i though it was just me but looks like im not the only one who is having similar issues in Whitegate, things like, NPCs speaking in a Alien language or crashing on every NPC you talk, even getting stucked on the black screen going out MH after change job.

Here some screenshots

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9...1109183311.jpg

After this, i installed the latest's emiko UI mod, to see if it was a UI issue but nothing changed

This is currently the only NPC who doesnt crash, but acts weird, he gives me coins tho

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/323...1111165907.png

This is what i got going out Mog House, pretty weird im getting part of the last screenshot's emote as text in the dialog box. At this point you get stucked here and need to log on another PC to unstuck

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6...1111170103.png

Basically all NPC you talk makes you crash, but AH, here is another guy getting something similar

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...bun/glitch.jpg

Some ppl quotes got from the 348732462+ threads about crashes after update here on BG

Currently stuck in the MH to WG black screen (zone) can log in my mules fine but everytime i pick my main i get fucking booted, placed a call with my mule to have a GM move my main out, this is retarded. By the way i deleted recast completely for now and have even tried to log in on non windowed version to see if I would finally zone into WG but its not working... Waiting on GM

I'm not too sure my problem is related but I wouldn't be surprised if it were:

So, I kept crashing on Windower without loading any plug-ins at all and just tried loading FFXI normally without Windower, and encountered some messed up stuff with the text. I can't get anything done with the NPC's speaking this alien language to me. Tried getting Runic Portal pass since I have the click confirms memorized, but nothing was going through.

To those of you having the alien speak issues in Aht Urgan (or maybe elsewhere) I had the same problem. I would crash, get mumbo jumbo JP babble, or on the runic portal guy he would display no text and I would get to choose...from a menu of nothing. I posted in the windower site about this problem too.

I fixed this by running check files. It is one of the options in the very first POL menu, before you even log in. I got d/ced halfway through my download, and got a very strange message about a file. I thought nothing of it at the time, thinking it was just me d/cing, but alas something got corrupted.

Already did file repair, problem stills

GF and a friend are crashing when they talk to moogle npc as well. Tried to log in using windower and without and still crashing during moghouse enter/exit. They both on Vista, r u on Vista?

Some ppl looks to got it fixed with a simle File Check but some dont, just liked to note this, because maybe someone of you already know what happened. In my case, im reinstaling everything.

[Deimos]

You probably did File Check on POL, not on FFXI. You have to pick from a menu. File Check on FFXI should fix it.

[Waku]

Some have fixed the problem by going into playonline/ffxi/rom/0/ and deleting 51.dat, and then running file check again.

[vagus]

Some have fixed the problem by going into playonline/ffxi/rom/0/ and deleting 51.dat, and then running file check again.

Why this .dat?


Cinnabun, nice fame for a galka. Lol.

[Kaisha]

Has anyone without windower had the problem at all?

I've yet to hear of any console users complaining, or anyone that's posted screenshots that didn't show signs of windower being used.

[Nyerieri]

The problem was only in Toau for me, then I tried it without windower and it still had the problem. I did file check and i let it fix the rom0 file and now its fine

[MaachaQ]

My problem was only in whitegate, and only on my windows 7 laptop. My husband's vista PC did not have this problem. It took me completely overwriting my own ROM/0 folder with a copy from my husband's machine and doing a filecheck again (which downloaded 1 file, most likely 51.dat like everyone else) to get it to work again.

[Destinye]

Happens on my brother's Windows 7 install, but not our XP/Vista installs..so it COULD be the way Windows 7 writes stuff and it got corrupted in the whole update process.

[Beave]

I had the same issue, neglected to deal with it when I first noticed which was a mistake. Khim popped so I tried to head there, only to find I still crashed when talking to most all npcs (most notably Moogle, sanction dood, and the guy to buy a portal permit).

Anyway, ran FFXI file check, took about 30 mins, logged in problem solved.

Killed Khim, no sword, no seveneyes

[toqabowl]

stop using all the 3rd pt progs???

i use tp+distance and works fine

[Sephiroth_Owa 13]

PS2 user no problems here, though I did see a group of pc users mt on LS
"What language is he speaking? Other mt was. "Looks alien."

So pc only maybe?

[Xera]

I had the same issue when I had used FFXI Style v1.14 (widescreen). Did a file check and reapplied FFX Style v1.15 (widescreen) and it works fine now.

[Draylo]

I had a problem similiar to this except my moogle just said "x x" and when i talk to other npcs such as the coin guy or armor storage they crashed me to a error thing. What I did to fix it was go into playonline>ffxi>ROM4>0>123.dat and I got a friend to send me the update version of that .dat. It was 0 mg when I looked at it, which is what was the cause, try fixing that.

[Hanyoko]

Friend of mine had some of what was described happen to him; Win7 Vanilla FF in SE windowed mode
Was a corrupt file which file check repaired.

[Waku]

Yea, since peeps are reporting different files, sounds like SE's file server just screwed the pooch with updating people's client under the strain. Wouldn't be the first time.

[Anomander]

I tried in both official and windower modes, and had the issue. This is not a windower issue. Also, to some speculating about it being windows 7, I am on vista, so its not that either.

I ran the file check from the very beginning of POL. It asked me what to file check - I had a choice between POL and FFXI. Chose FFXI, and a file was replaced. I had some odd error as I mentioned in other threads where the download d/ced, and rather than just giving me the standard POL d/c garbage it fed me some error with a file name. I thought absolutely nothing of it at the time, figured it was the download rush and restarting the patch would get the file.

[bunz]

Cinnabun, nice name for a galka. Lol.

thx

Some have fixed the problem by going into playonline/ffxi/rom/0/ and deleting 51.dat, and then running file check again.

I had a problem similiar to this except my moogle just said "x x" and when i talk to other npcs such as the coin guy or armor storage they crashed me to a error thing. What I did to fix it was go into playonline>ffxi>ROM4>0>123.dat and I got a friend to send me the update version of that .dat. It was 0 mg when I looked at it, which is what was the cause, try fixing that.

Tried all of these suggestions, deleting the random .DATs you guys threw out there.. And it borked my FFXI even more lol. After FFXI File-Checking, I can't even log in to mess around/chat in town anymore:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...abun/ffsux.jpg

Get this after char log-in screen and loading to enter FFXI.

I guess this gives me a reason to reformat my PC, but I dread that really =(

[Suteru]

Question for those running Windows 7 with this problem:

Are you running POL from C:\Program Files\ (32-bit) or C:\Program Files(x86)\ (64bit)? Windows 7 put more write protection for the Program Files folders, which may cause errors. My install is in D:\Games\ and I haven't had any problems.

[gaira]

it's anti-bot code duh

[matt4684]

Had some problem. File check fixed it. My issue was I changed jobs and got the "Set HP here?" box upon zoning out of MH which caused me to crash. And since that pops up everytime until you answer, I crashed everytime I tried to log in. I called an ever helpful GM who refused to cancel that chat box or warp me from WG so I could log in.