How To Set Up Act Ff14

FFXIV Human activity Installation Instructions

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We'll also add the following helpful plugins:

• OverlayPlugin - Adds overlay support to conveniently display information in game.
• Kagerou - A dainty DPS overlay that'southward customizable via an like shooting fish in a barrel-to-utilize command panel.
• Triggernometry - Advanced custom triggers with better organization.

Installing Act + FFXIV Plugin

Download ACT (Discord) and run through its installer.

On first run, a setup magician volition start. Follow along to select the FFXIV Plugin by clicking Get available parsing plugins, choosing (66) FFXIV Parsing Plugin from the dropdown, so clicking Use this plugin.

On the adjacent screen, reply No when asked if Human activity is being used for EverQuest II, then click OK > Cancel > Close instead of choosing a log file. The FFXIV Plugin doesn't read on-disk logs, and then at that place's nil to more to ready.

Configuring Bone Permissions

Human action should always exist run as Administrator and excepted from Windows Firewall to make certain it works properly. This is because ACT uses memory reading and packet inspection to collect accurate data, which Windows doesn't allow by default.

To show these steps are necessary, open up Deed and try Plugins > FFXIV Settings > Test Game Connexion. Without sufficient permissions, Human activity will neglect to parse correctly:

Making ACT ever run every bit Administrator

Discover the shortcut used to launch Human action, so right click > Backdrop. In the Compatibility tab, cheque Run this program equally an Ambassador and hit Apply. This ensures Human activity is run as Ambassador every time.

Excepting ACT from Windows Firewall

In the Windows Outset Bill of fare, type Windows Firewall and choose the normal version (instead of Advanced Security).

On the left, click Allow an app or feature through Windows Firewall. In the new window, click Change Settings, then Permit another app....

Browse to where Act was installed and select Avant-garde Gainsay Tracker.exe. The default install path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Advanced Combat Tracker\Avant-garde Combat Tracker.exe, simply it may be elsewhere if changed during installation.

Under Network Types, select both Public and Private, and then click OK. Finally, click Add and OK to cease adding the exception.

Back in Act, try Plugins > FFXIV Settings > Test Game Connection again. It should exist all clear. If not, try working through this permissions section again.

Configuring Other Options

Changing Encounter Timer

Some bosses have long periods without fighting that misfile Act into thinking one fight is actually two. This carve up result in DPS being measured separately for each half, which isn't comparable to DPS measured as one across the entire fight.

To fix this, go to Options > Main Tabular array/Encounters: Full general and set Number of seconds to look afterwards the final combat activeness to begin a new encounter to 30.

Disabling Clipboard Auto-Export

By default, Human action copies a text version of an encouter'southward upshot to the paste buffer later on each fight. This is annoying because it interrupts copy/paste and yous may not paste what you expect.

To disable this, go to the Options tab, then uncheck Output Display: Text Export Settings > [ ] Export to Clipboard after gainsay.

Troubleshooting

Missing DPS Graph -- "No combatants with compatible data to graph... Try another sorting method."

The DPS Graph can fail to render if the chosen sorting options are unset or unsortable. To restore the defaults,

1. Open Options > Principal Table/Encounters: Encounter View Options
2. Highlight EncDPS in the list, then click the box to the right of Sort #1 below the list.
3. Highlight Duration in the listing, then click the box to the right of Sort #two below the list.

If Sort #1 and Sort #2 aren't visible below the list, scroll downwards using the far right scrollbar (instead of the list'south scrollbar)

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FFXIV_ACT_Plugin.dll -- Plugin Initialization Failed

Act sometimes fails to attach to the game despite proper settings and running as admin. It shows Plugin Initialization Failed for FFXIV_ACT_Plugin.dll on the Plugins tab, has a completely empty FFXIV Procedure ID dropdown under FFXIV Settings (not even an automatic option!), and generally doesn't parse DPS.

This happens later certain game updates where the game launcher itself is also patched. The launcher patcher will run every bit admin, which afterward runs the launcher and then the game every bit admin for that session, which blocks Human action from reading the game.

To fix, simply restart the game and then information technology runs without elevated privileges.

Installing Extra Plugins

ACT lonely is helpful, but it's hard to check DPS in real fourth dimension (peculiarly without a 2d monitor!), information technology'southward not very pretty, and some features could exist improve. This can all be fixed with extra plugins.

Overlay Plugin

The Overlay Plugin allows for displaying extra information "in game" by floating windows over the customer, as if they were extra UI elements. Applications include DPS meters, spell timers, threat meters, and more than.

Setup

In Final Fantasy XIV, Go to Organization Configuration > Display Settings and set up Screen Mode to Borderless Windowed. The overlays are secondary windows that float over the main game window, so true fullscreen is non supported.

Download OverlayPlugin-w.x.y.z-x64-full.aught and "unblock" information technology before extracting. If OverlayPlugin is already installed, update it from that link since newer features will be required later.

In ACT, go to Plugins > Plugin Listing, browse for OverlayPlugin.dll in the extracted folder, then click Add/Enable Plugin. Note that there are several DLLs with similar names (eastward.chiliad., OverlayPlugin.Common.dll), and then be careful to choose the standard OverlayPlugin.dll.

On the OverlayPlugin.dll tab, make sure an overlay of type MiniParseOverlay exists. If non, click New to add one with any name.

Besides, cheque Automatically hide overlays to hide the overlay when 14 or Deed aren't the agile window.

Kagerou

Kagerou is a visually pleasing DPS overlay theme that'south like shooting fish in a barrel to configure and make pretty, even for non-technical people.

Setup

Still in OverlayPlugin.dll tab, open up the Mini Parse sub-tab and set the URL to https://hibiyasleep.github.io/kagerou/overlay.

In case Kagerou starts in a strange language, click the ⋮ > gear to open the settings, and so select a familiar language from the dropdown and click save.

The overlay tin exist dragged around the screen and resized using the greyness triangle in the lesser right corner. To lock it in place, become back to the Mini Parse sub-tab and check Lock Overlay. DON'T check Enable Clickthru or Kagerou volition lose its interactivity.

To change the data displayed and theming, check the ⋮ > gear config panel. Options include player proper name brandish style, colors, different stats, etc.

Or, if that's effort and the screenshots higher up are appealing, copy/paste the blob below into the Import/Export tab to get those settings:

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Triggernometry

Triggernometry (Discord) is a straight upgrade to Human action'southward "custom triggers" characteristic, supporting more advanced triggers (variables, logic, math), more than responses than beeps and TTS, and folders for meliorate system.

A guide to triggers is outside the scope of these instructions, just tl;dr triggers search live game logs using regular expressions and respond to certain events, which is how some players go warnings about boss abilities or key buffs like Trick Attack. See Triggernometry Discord for more details.

Setup

Download Triggernometry and "unblock" information technology before extracting.

In ACT, become to Plugins > Plugin Listing, browse for Triggernometry.dll in the extracted folder, and then click Add/Enable Plugin.

Auto-Ending Encounters

Increasing encounter duration ensures there's a single run across per pull, even in fights with long transitions, but traditionally required manually ending the encounter on wipe so two fights wouldn't bleed into each other on Deed. Triggernometry can at present finish the come across automatically on wipe in viii player trial/raid dungeons, thanks to a trigger past MikeMatrix from the FF14 ACT Discord.

First, go to Options > Master Table/Encounters: General and increase meet elapsing to 60 seconds or college:

Next, get to Plugins > Triggernometry, right click a binder and printing Import, then paste the contents of OnWipe.xml from the bottom of this page:

Source: https://gist.github.com/TomRichter/e044a3dff5c50024cf514ffb20a201a9

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