Patch and Installation Time.

[kuponutmog]

well, when i did it, installation of ffxi, roz and cop was about 2 hours, downloading and installing the patches was about 4 hours.

[Asker]

Just last night, installation from the FFXI and 3 expansion DVD - updates took about 4.5 hours on a cable line.

[tankknat]

HARD DRIVE: 2x40Gb HD 5200 RPM, 1x80Gb HD 7200 RPM, 1x200Gb HD 7200 RPM
SYSTEM RAM: 1023 MB DDR RAM
PROCESSOR: Pentium 4 (2cpu's) 3.6 GHz 3.7GHz
CONNECTION: 10Mbit Cable
INSTALLATION BOX:
Starter Pack EU version of FFXI and PlayOnline box

Time needed to install AND FULLY PATCH PlayOnline, FFXI, and the Expansion:
Base Install (POL & FFXI): 20 minutes
First Patch of POL: 5 minutes
Expansion Install: 20 minutes

FFXI and Expansion Patch: Step 1 - 35 minutes; Step 2 - 8 hours and 45 minutes; Step 3 - 15 minutes.

Total time from nothing to complete installation and patch:
9 Hours and 40 Mins

EDIT: Forgot to mention that all ports where open for POL

[Darkoni002]

how long would it take probaly on a 56 kb connection

[Jarre]

Lets just say put it on before you go to bed and pray it doesn't disconnect

[Dymlos]

how long would it take probaly on a 56 kb connection

I say it's time to upgrade to a broadband connection. 56k is going the way of the dinosaurs.

[skoreanime]

Just did a fresh install of POL, FFXI and all the expansions. That took about half an hour. It's the patching that took awhile. Even with my 12MBps cable connection, it took over 3hours. S-E probably has a limit on upload per connection to maintain stability I guess. But yes, why they don't release patches to be downloadable and backed up for future reinstalls is beyond me...it would save them a ton of bandwidth.

CPU - Q6600@3Ghz
GPU - BFG 9800GX2
Hard Drive - 74GB Raptor (2 pairs of hard drives in RAID0 also)

[NewbieFF11]

October 6th
I have the following specs:
HARD DRIVE: 250 GB
SYSTEM RAM: 1012 MB DDR RAM
PROCESSOR: AMD Athlon 1.24 GHZ
CONNECTION: high speed donno
INSTALLATION BOX:
First release version of FFXI and PlayOnline box
First release Add-on FFXI Expansion

Time needed to install AND FULLY PATCH PlayOnline, FFXI, and the Expansion:
Base Install (POL & FFXI): 15 minutes
First Patch of POL: 25 minutes
Expansion Install: 20 minutes
FFXI and Expansion Patch: Checking files 2 hours, Downloading files 10 hrs restarted checking and downloading twice

Total time from nothing to complete installation and patch:
13 hours of watching anime and movies...

I'm going to burn my FF11 to DvD and next time just copy it over to after I format my pc again and if that doesn't work um I'll do this 13hr thing again /sigh

[Mhurron]

I say it's time to upgrade to a broadband connection. 56k is going the way of the dinosaurs.

It's not going anywhere in the USA any time soon.

[Jarre]

October 6th

PROCESSOR: AMD Athlon 1.24 GHZ

Have you run the benchmark? you will get very slow game play and have to turn all graphics down to a minimum, if it willa llow you to play it.

[Mhurron]

Have you run the benchmark? you will get very slow game play and have to turn all graphics down to a minimum, if it willa llow you to play it.

Oh for the love of god, have a clue about what you're saying.

FFXI minimum requirements
Operating System: Windows® 2000/XP/Vista
CPU: Intel® Pentium®III 800Mhz or faster processor
Memory: 128 MB RAM
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce™ series with 32 MB or ATI® RADEON™ 9000 series
Sound Card: DirectX®8.1 compatible sound card
Hard Drive Space: 9.5 GB free hard disk space

That processor (which appears it could be a Thunderbird 2000+) is more then enough to run FFXI with everything turned on. The only questionable part is the video card because he didn't say what he had.

[Krigo]

Sup guys, thought I'd post here for the following reason; the patch server is so freaking slow.

Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500
Nvidia Geforce 9600GT XXX
2GB RAM
Windows Server 2008 32bit(modified to work as a workstation extremely well)
250GB HDD

Internet connection:
16MB(1.6MB/s)

The thing is, I am trying out the FFXI EU trial to see if it's worth buying on the Xbox 360, I downloaded the 2gb client in around 30-40 minutes. That wasn't really hard, Crysis Warhead didn't take 9 hours.

World of Warcraft had this problem but this was due to it using torrent technology(the solution to this was patch mirrors)

I have to say, I'm looking forward to FFXI. I hope this doesn't make me look like i'm trolling at all because I'm an honest person and this shouldn't take 9(nearly ten now!) hours.

[Tomtough]

I have the following specs:
HARD DRIVE: 300 GB hard drive, seagate... not sure what model
SYSTEM RAM: 3 GB ddr2 ram
PROCESSOR: Dual core 3.2 GHz intel
CONNECTION: 15 megabit COX cable
INSTALLATION BOX:
vana'diel collection 2007

Time needed to install AND FULLY PATCH PlayOnline, FFXI, and the Expansion: ~6.5 hours
Base Install (POL & FFXI): 10 mins
First Patch of POL: 20 mins
Expansion Install: 3 installed in 25
FFXI and Expansion Patch: Step 1 - 25 minutes; Step 2 - 5 hours and 30 minutes; Step 3 - not sure, i was sleeping

Total time from nothing to complete installation and patch:
~6.5 hours
just put back on, now time to put some reg values for higher res

[Haroldo]

Laptop Specs:
Dell Latitude 110L (go on, laugh )
Hard Drive: 40G Hitachi
RAM: 256 DDR
CPU: 1.4 GHz Intel Celeron M
Graphics: Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family
Connection: ranges from 20Kbps to 45Kbps during the day.

Game Installed: Vana'diel Collection 2008 from DVD
Total installation time (Game+4 Expansions+PlayOnline): 35 minutes.
Patching PlayOnline: About 45 minutes
Patching Final Fantasy: 30 hours of download (34 with disconnections and verifying downloaded files)

The game seems to run properly on low resolution and with some effects turned off. Should I find any problem, I'll edit this post. I'll try installing this on a SD card and running on a Eee Pc 4G one of this days to see how it runs.