Patch and Installation Time.

[AKosygin]

I am trying to see how long it takes everyone to patch and install the game on their various systems and connections; so people have an idea how long an installation takes. If you are (re-)installing from scratch, please provide specs of your computer, box installation type, and timing (In the format below).

As of August 26, with all the patches up until such time.
I have the following specs:
HARD DRIVE: 200 GB HD 7200 RPM ATA/133
SYSTEM RAM: 512 MB DDR RAM
PROCESSOR: Pentium 4 - 2.4 GHZ
CONNECTION: 1.2Mbit DSL
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: 30 minutes
Expansion Install: 20 minutes
FFXI and Expansion Patch: Step 1 - 45 minutes; Step 2 - 4 hours and 30 minutes; Step 3 - 15 minutes.

Total time from nothing to complete installation and patch:
6 hours and 35 minutes

Note: FFXI and Expansion Patch is approximately a 6075 files patch.

[StarRealms]

I just reinstalled my FFXI but unfortunately I did not keep track exactly of all the times butperhaps thiswill be of some usefulness.

Specs:
40GB HD System ram: 512MB SDRAM (notDDR)
Processor:Athlon 1300
Connection:256kb DSL
Installation box: ffxi/expansion separate

Base Install:30-40minutes
Expansion:not installed yet
Patches:8 hours (note: apparently mysettings were orginally made to disconnect me after 20 minutes of POL afk time, so I gotdisconnected twice before realizing to change these settings to off, andeach disconnect resulted in about 45 minutes of reproccesing the 6000 files before downloading the missing files)

Total time: 9 hours or so

[Nassa]

Installed fresh copy on my computer 9/1/03:

AMD Athlon 1700+ 384MB SDRAM
120GB WD 7200RPM HD
2.1 mbit Cable (Road Runner)
PowerColor ATI Radeon 9600pro (only 2700 on benchmark???)
INSTALLATION BOX:
First release version of FFXI and PlayOnline box (import)
First release Add-on FFXI Expansion (import)
CD-ROM speed: 52x read

From opening box to playing:
Installing POL/FF11 (base install): 10 minutes
Patching POL: 5 minutes
Registering POL: 1 hour (was having trouble figuring out how to input japanese kanji etc. etc.)
FFXI patching: Step 1/2/3 - 5 minutes/60 minutes/ 5 minutes
FFXI expansion install: 5 minutes
FFXI expansion patching: Step 1/2/3 - 10 minutes/30 minutes/3 minutes

Maybe a little over 4 hours total, a fourth of which was spent reading over Osaka's install faq in the forums.

Speaking of which, now that I have the import game, how do I register for "importer status" for the forums? And who do I notify to be included in the player directory?

Nassa

[AKosygin]

The importer status, you need to post at the Comments/Suggestion forums, there is a thread for the importer status. PiNG handles all of that.

Once you get the importer status, send me a PM with the appropriate information in the directory and I will add you.

[mikelion]

Hi, I've been gone for the past 4 months and haven't catch up on anything about FF11. So is this patch inlucuded in the game? And Btw, I'm talking about the POL patch. For future FFXI Patches, is it going to be automatically installed for us or do we have to download it at some site?

[partyguy1214]

4 days and counting... BEcAUSE I CANT UPDATE GRRR !

[oni9]

I'm playing Jap version on Jap PS2 in Australia

specs:
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HARD DRIVE: 40 GB HD (the BB unit one)
SYSTEM RAM: 4MB ??
PROCESSOR: 233Mhz ??
CONNECTION: 512/128bit ADSL
INSTALLATION BOX:
FFXI All In One (jap) PlayOnline Entry Disc, FFXI, Testra Master
FFXI All In One (jap) FFXI Expansion Data Disc
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Time needed to install AND FULLY PATCH PlayOnline, FFXI, and the Expansion:
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BB Unit Initialisation (format HDD): ~10 Min
BB Unit Navigator: ~10Min
BB Unit Patch (version up): ~20Min
POL: ~10Min
POL Patch (version up): 29Min
(the "square" title changes to "square enix" after patch)
FFXI+Expansion: 40Min
FFXI patch (version up): 1H 58Min
(~3000 files updated, got error&disconnected 3 times)
----------------------------------------------------
Total Installation Time: ~4Hours

[Lakario]

56k internet, machine specs in signature.

POL Install: 1-2 minutes
FFXI Install: 10-12 minutes
Expansion: 1-2 minutes

POL Patch: 20-25 minutes
FFXI Patch: 12 hours

Times done: 5 (once while on broadband)

I've had hell maintaining my system as of late and as such I have had to reformat or reinstall windows several times which means reinstalling ff11 entirely everytime... Why the hell can't they have an executable patch that can be downloaded and run? I hate dialup.

[nightwave]

I will be a little bit less detail:

Athlon XP 2600
512 MB DDR 3200 RAM
GeForce4 TI 4600
Cable Modem

Total Install Time: 45 mins
Total Update Time: 1 Hour 15 Minutes

Total Time start to finish: 2 Hours

[Strail]

My comp is a little slower:

1.9 ghz P4
1024 MB Ram
GeForce 3 64meg DDR
80 gig HDD

but my connection is blazingly fast

100 Mbps Fast Ethernet Cable

and 10Mbps for Lap Top

For some reason the updating time was still about 2 hours for each. I think the update server is slow or speed limited so everyone can download at once. Because that should have take a half an hour.

[Sk0pe]

Built this computer 5 years ago when this stuff was cutting edge, so don't laugh! :dead:

HARD DRIVE: 120 GB HD 7200 RPM Seagate [new purchase]
40 GB Maxtor 7200RPM
SYSTEM RAM: 512 MB 2100 133Mhz RAM
PROCESSOR: AMD Thunderbird 900 Mhz OC'ed to 1.01 Ghz with graphite mod =)
CONNECTION: 3 Mbps donwnstream Cable [Mediacom]

Total time Install + updates as of 1/2: 2.5 hours

[Morphis]

I am living in the middle east in the kingdom of Bahrain it an Island in the middle of the person Gulf ! and I using DSL/Lan internet counection! 100mb

POL Install: 5 minutes
FFXI Install: 15 minutes
Expansion: 1-2 minutes

POL Patch: 30 minutes
FFXI Patch: 8 hours

:mad:

[Nelchael]

AMD Athlon XP 2200+
512MB DDR333
60GB SEAGATE HDD
8GB SEAGATE HDD (FOR BACKUP PURPOSES)
GeForce FX5700 256MB DDR

Im using a ADSL service of 512/128 and my times are the following..

POL install: 2~4min
FFXI install: 13~17min
EXPANSION install: 3~5min

POL update: Normaly takes 5min but if my sister is using all the bandwidth with p2p progs -_- it can take from 20min to 2h30min

FFXI update: same case.. Normaly 9hours, if I get bandwidth occupied, can go up to 18hours..

[Kitsune]

P4 3.0Ghz
1024MB DDR400 PC3200
120GB Western Digital
Radeon 9800 XT
Cable Modem 3000/256 (upstream and downstream in bits)
(MCHSI - Mediacom)

POL install - 2 minutes
FFXI install - 8 minutes
Expansion install - 4 minutes

POL update - 6 minutes
FFXI update - 2h 28m

[twinscythe]

Isn't there any way to backup the patch files and upload it to a server or tracker?