The New Retail Update Crashes Client Side

[basiah]

Kirby I don't know if it provides a clue but WS's do still work through the use of macros.

Just not JA's

[CaelThunderwing]

check my post in client setup, for now sadly its the only option we have 2 issues from the dec 12th update

Party Packet changed
packets indicating JA arent relying on offsets.

[mvd1987]

yes i tryed your game download

it chrashes directly.

i copyed it from a fresh copy, and started the mxi and ffxi-boot and it chrashed.

i tryed then to copy data folder from ffxi to playonline and then run the clients again and still a crash.

i had the same problem when i tryed to upload and download my gamefolder, i think it looses some data when you download it and it wont run then.

i really hope blue and the rest can fix it soon in the new rev so all new players can join again,

since im getting pm after pm from new players

greetings michael

[basiah]

michael just do a fresh retail update and repair files.

Then drop the 10 files flunkle provided into your directory and allow them to replace all.

That will fix all the crashing, then just have people use a macro for weaponskills.

Job abilties are still broken but thats it at this point.

I am a new player that started after the new update all this works for new players.

[mvd1987]

nope i meant the game dowload of cea on the other post.

the download from mediafire, he uploaded the hole game file

and it isnt for me but all new players on my server

[Virtualchronos]

doesn't have any of those bugs since I created this patch

try to find which file is the cause of the crash by testing them one by one. I don't have the time to create another patch so if anyone wanna try that's how you should do

[basiah]

No dev update? Really game breaking makes multiple classes unusable.

[bluekirby0]

If you go to the other topic I linked earlier you can see the progress on this issue. The hang-up is on handling the 0xAC packets which now appear to do nothing no matter how I form them. I can stop the crashes but I can't fix JAs not working.

[hakusho]

Quick question about the update. I haven't updated the POL client so this shouldn't affect me right now. However, will I be required to update my client when the DSP Server is updated to handle the new packets or will it be made compatible with the new and old versions of POL?

[bluekirby0]

If we maintained backwards compatibility with previous client versions, the code would be a mess full of version checking and branching logic. That would add considerable overhead to it. When the fixes are in place, you will be required to update to the new client version or be stuck with the last svn version before that commit. There isn't really a practical way around that.