Client (ffxiv.exe)
This is the game client executable.
Note
There are two separate executables for DirectX 11 and DirectX 9. The DX11 version is named ffxiv_dx11.exe. The DX9 version will be removed in a future update.
Arguments #
- DEV.DataPathType
- Guessing that this controls the asset data type used by the client, this is will always be
1.
- Guessing that this controls the asset data type used by the client, this is will always be
- DEV.UseSqPack
- Guessing that this tells the client to try to load data from SqPack files instead of from regular, uncompressed files. Seems to always be
1.
- Guessing that this tells the client to try to load data from SqPack files instead of from regular, uncompressed files. Seems to always be
- DEV.MaxEntitledExpansionID
- This is the max entitled expansion ID that the currently logging in user has access to, you will want to set this from your login response.
- DEV.TestSID
- This is the SID you get from your login response.
- SYS.Region
- Your login region.
- language
- Your login language.
- ver
- The (base) game version string.
- DEV.GMServerHost
- This is the address of the frontier server to connect to. If empty, this will default to the official Square Enix frontier server.
- DEV.LobbyHost0X
- This is the address of the Nth lobby available to the client, these are numbered 0-9. If empty, this will default to the official Square Enix lobbies.
- DEV.LobbyPort0X
- This is the port number of the Nth lobby available to the client, these are numbered 0-9. If empty, this will default to the official Square Enix lobbies.
Note
For benchmark versions of the game, there is a whole host of graphical options available as game arguments - but this seems to be missing in the retail version.
Alternative Implementations #
- SaBOTender (C#)
- Implements very basic networking capabilities.