Anyone found out how to play the game if you have a 20gb hard drive? I saw another thread about this like 3 pages back but there was no solution. For those who are lost, it goes like this.
1. NXE downloads and installs
2. put in game, try to play game, it wont play because its not downloaded to the xbox
3. clean everything off your HD and you only have 6.1Gb of free memory, the Pol requires 6.7Gb
4.???
5. microsoft profits and everyone is pissed.
solution found?
Edit: I found the solution!!!! Straight from microsoft tech support:
"We are sorry. There is no way to uninstall the NXE. We are currently trying to find a solution. We will send you a free migration tool kit to help you transfer the data to a larger hard drive. Sorry for the inconvenience."
So, there is no solution. Microsoft made an interface update that forces FFXI players with the original 20Gb HD to buy another HD to continue to play the same game they have been playing for the past 2 years.
good going microsoft, way to keep your customers happy.
Edited, Dec 1st 2008 7:09pm by iknoweverything
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eh? works fine with me
Well, a temporary solution would be to not install one of the expansions, so that the rest fits.
The better solution would be to upgrade to a hard drive large enough to house both NXE and FFXI.
NXE is 13gb? Wow.
The better solution would be to upgrade to a hard drive large enough to house both NXE and FFXI.
NXE is 13gb? Wow.
ffxi is 13Gb evidently. the nxe is only 128Mb supposedly
Save any game files you want to keep to an external drive if you have one. Otherwise you need to reformat the hard drive to get back the space that FFXI holds that you can't access. Then you'll have to reinstall. The whole situation sucks.
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Save any game files you want to keep to an external drive if you have one. Otherwise you need to reformat the hard drive to get back the space that FFXI holds that you can't access. Then you'll have to reinstall. The whole situation sucks.
so basically nxe broke ffxi and forces you to buy a bigger HD and have to reinstall?
god damn i hate microsoft
#8TirithRR,
Posted: Dec 01 2008 at 4:59 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Your fault for being a cheapo :P
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Your fault for being a cheapo early adopter :P
Fixed.
Edited, Dec 1st 2008 8:05pm by DancerRonin
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Your fault for being a cheapo :P
{Huh!?}
When i bought my xbox that was the biggest HD you could buy. In fact, i probably payed $200 more for a 20Gb xbox than people do now for a 100Gb.
That's odd I have FFXI all expansions installed as well as save files, downloaded Rock Band/2 songs, and downloaded arcade games and I didn't have any problems with NXE downloading and installing in my 1.9GB of space available. When I look at my HDD it still reads 1.9GB free. I also have the old 20GB HDD.
Are you trying to install FFXI disc on to your HDD? because that's what needs about 6GB at least that sounds about right from when I tried.
Are you trying to install FFXI disc on to your HDD? because that's what needs about 6GB at least that sounds about right from when I tried.
mine plays fine on my 20 gig hard drive. In fact I have like 4 gigs to spare. Maybe you need to delete some of the other stuff you've downloaded to make space like the rest of us who are too cheap to buy a bigger one?
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Are you trying to install FFXI disc on to your HDD? because that's what needs about 6GB at least that sounds about right from when I tried.
ok this is how it happens. I got 6.1Gb of free space.
I put in the ffxi disk. It starts to load and then stops, giving a 'game error, please download the game again'. When i go to try and download playonline viewer, it starts, then stops and says it needs 6.7Gb of space and there are only 6.1Gb available. There is absolutely nothing on the hard drive at this time except for FFXI. The tech even told me a trick on how to clear temp files from the HD.
go to system settings > memory > hard drive > Y for device options > then press X X LB RB X X
so, how did you get pol to start the first time?
iknoweverything wrote:
so, how did you get pol to start the first time?
Here's exactly how i got NXE since I think it might give a little more info:
I logged off FFXI.
Prompted about an xbox update.
Downloaded the NXE update.
Install the update.
Restart FFXI.
The disc never left the tray as 80%~ of my time on my 360 is for ffxi.
The only way I could get mine to work was by uninstalling the game, then re-installing it. Bad thing is it wipes your macros, and it takes forever to update.
Save your macros to the server first. Also, if you install just the WoG disc it plays the game from the HD and only takes up 3.2 GB.
Yeah I also have this problem, I can't even get it to load up to the POL menu so I can attempt to uninstall the game. It opens straight to a NXE screen that says "The game has not been downloaded", and I have way too many saves to even consider formatting the HDD.
M$ needs to patch this problem, it's been like 2 weeks now since the new dashboard came out. Makes me glad I play on the PC for the most part...
M$ needs to patch this problem, it's been like 2 weeks now since the new dashboard came out. Makes me glad I play on the PC for the most part...
Mikhalia wrote:
I care that the "No Child Left Behind" act has failed you.
Just install the POL viewer from the WoTg expansion disc if you have it. Its like 3GB and works fine ^-^
someonesomething wrote:
Just install the POL viewer from the WoTg expansion disc if you have it. Its like 3GB and works fine ^-^
1. I don't have a WoTG install disk
2. My HDD only has 1.6GB available
Mikhalia wrote:
I care that the "No Child Left Behind" act has failed you.
I have a 20gig HDD and I still had enough room finishing with 36megs of space left over. I restarted and then deleted the 2nd install and it worked fine.
Or you could buy a bigger HD. If you know what your doing you can buy a regular off the shelf HD for alot less than Microsoft will charge you and install that.
I don't know what the issue is for some people but I'm sure glad I don't have the same problem. When I tried to play FFXI after the NXE update, I got the message to reinstall the game. I then tried again and was given the screen where it says you did not properly exit the game with the different menu choices to start, uninstall, reinstall, etc.. I chose "reinstall" POL, took 10 minutes, and everything has been fine since then.
I too have the original 20Gig HD and still have the same 6.1Gig remaining that I had before the NXE. Hope you guys who are having so much trouble are able to get it worked out.
I too have the original 20Gig HD and still have the same 6.1Gig remaining that I had before the NXE. Hope you guys who are having so much trouble are able to get it worked out.
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I can't help it but my mind if flooded with all sorts of "Hello...I'm a Mac....And I'm a PC" commercials.
It was supposed to work after just re-installing POL (it technically should have worked without any effort on our part, though). But when the NXE update first came out, one of the known errors people were receiving when trying to play FFXI was a message about not being able to download the current version. This problem (as far as I know) was eventually remedied.
In my case, though, I wasn't aware that error message was already a known error and reported by SE. So I figured somehow my game was corrupted. Then came the re-install/update 8 hour fun-fest.
So, yes, it's a good idea to back up your macros to prepare for the worst case scenario, but you'd had to have backed them up sometime in the past before the NXE update. Since you can't access the game as of the update, you can't back your macros up. So it becomes a moot point.
In my case, though, I wasn't aware that error message was already a known error and reported by SE. So I figured somehow my game was corrupted. Then came the re-install/update 8 hour fun-fest.
So, yes, it's a good idea to back up your macros to prepare for the worst case scenario, but you'd had to have backed them up sometime in the past before the NXE update. Since you can't access the game as of the update, you can't back your macros up. So it becomes a moot point.
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