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I am having problems with my FFXI installation and some corrupt files. Basically the problem reared it's ugly head within a week of my first installation whereby I would get PoL has stopped working error and then get booted to desktop. Once this occured I would have to restart my computer to get back into the game due to it crashing immediately after character selection. Even with the reboots however that never normally gave me anything more than 5 - 10 minutes of online time, less if I zoned or hopped on a chocobo.
I tried a file repair and found I did have corrupt files, around 18 of them in fact. However when the file repair process came to download replacement files only 12 got downloaded leaving 6 corrupt files that it would detect but not download again meaning I had to uninstall the game, restart and reinstall.
I thought this would be because I was using an old 2006 Vana'Diel collection dvd and it may have been damaged so I borrowed my brother's 2008 edition DVD and reinstalled using that. About a week later I ran into the same problem, corrupt files but not all of them were getting repaired forcing another reinstallation and all the hassle that goes with it.
This has now happened about 4 more times, each time needing a full uninstall and reinstall to fix it. My hard drive is fine, done disk checks (including a full surface scan, no bad clusters or anything) , data integrity checks, defrag after each uninstall and reinstall but still keep running into the same problem.
Has anyone had a problem like this before or got any pointers/suggestions of other things I can try? It's getting a bit annoying to have to reinstall and set up the game, macros and everything else on a weekly basis.
I tried a file repair and found I did have corrupt files, around 18 of them in fact. However when the file repair process came to download replacement files only 12 got downloaded leaving 6 corrupt files that it would detect but not download again meaning I had to uninstall the game, restart and reinstall.
I thought this would be because I was using an old 2006 Vana'Diel collection dvd and it may have been damaged so I borrowed my brother's 2008 edition DVD and reinstalled using that. About a week later I ran into the same problem, corrupt files but not all of them were getting repaired forcing another reinstallation and all the hassle that goes with it.
This has now happened about 4 more times, each time needing a full uninstall and reinstall to fix it. My hard drive is fine, done disk checks (including a full surface scan, no bad clusters or anything) , data integrity checks, defrag after each uninstall and reinstall but still keep running into the same problem.
Has anyone had a problem like this before or got any pointers/suggestions of other things I can try? It's getting a bit annoying to have to reinstall and set up the game, macros and everything else on a weekly basis.
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