by cole
Tutorial on how to setup ACT (AdvancedCombat Tracker) DPS meter and Cactbot for FFXIV.
NOTE 1: People are mentioning that the FFXIV Overlay Settings tab no longer exists on ACT. Just skip this step in the video and you should have a functioning ACT. Let me know in the comments if this isn’t true and I will make another video. Thanks
NOTE 2: Is act safe? Yes. Yoshi-P has commented on why it’s against the TOS and basically square enix’s reasoning behind it being against TOS is because it can be used to harass and bully other players.
NOTE 3: As mentioned in the comments, make sure your game is set to ‘Borderless Windowed’ for the overlays to work.
32 thoughts on “Tutorial/Guide – How To Setup ACT Damage Meter & Cactbot for FFXIV”
I hella laughed when you just got into the video without an intro xD so refreshing. Ty for guide
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Straightforward, informative, easy-to-follow, succinct. This is one of the best video guides ever, honestly. It's the kind of video everyone hopes to find when looking up this kind of information. Bravo!
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You can just change your job to test again, no need to restart the ACT every time. Thanks for the video it helped me a lot!
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THANK YOU for the no nonsense guide.
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i did all what you say and i did /bow on a mob but it will not pop up on my screen and i use it as adminstrator
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does it only work with borderless window? Because whenever i go fullscreen, i don't see dps meter at all
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Best f*cking video guide ever, easy to follow and straight to the point…you earned yourself my sub sir. keep up the good work <3
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Nice video, ty ❤️
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Hey! LVL 45 healer (White Mage) on a LVL 1 target dummy. Timers are not showing. Shut down ACT, Reload, /bow – GO GO GO! No timers. Did I install wrong? Or may it only work for dps?
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Thanks for the guide. For some reason it works on the training dummy but can’t get it to work in raids. Any idea why?
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Excellent guide! Very succinct!
I don't know if you care, but, just to let you know, "Kagerou" is Japanese, and it's pronounced "Kah-gaer-roh". Means "dragonfly"! I think.
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You don't have to restart ACT for testing. Just just "/countdown 5" on dummy just like the message in the box suggests
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First of all: perfect guide great work!
I've got a question. Sometimes in some encounters I don't have time lines but my friend has them (was on the tsukuyomi fight normal mode)
Do I miss something? Just wondering why my friend has them on this fight and I don't 😊 maybe u have an answerReply
How do you make the dps window bigger? ty
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So I have no idea if youre still reading this, or some1 else who knows how to do it but: How do I get ACT to call out stuff like Trick Attack, Dragon Littony, Embolden etc.? I know its triggers and not a seperate plugin, but no idea how to actually set that up and I cant find a video for it xD
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Awesome tutorial. Thank you!
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can you tell me the glam @_@
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Hm, so weird. I've followed all the steps so far in the video, but for some reason the tabs "FFXIV Settings" and "FFXIV Overlay Settings" won't show. I only see "FFXIV ACT Plugin" tab instead where I can only test the game connection. I am running as administrator and installed and enabled both plugins. I also have the game running and the DPS numbers do show up in the main tab. I just can't get it to work unfortunately.
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FF 14 overlay pluggins does not appear here when marking as boxes
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shcreen
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I dont have the FFXIV overlay settings tab…
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Weird…I don't get a window with FFXIV overlay settings…Anyone else having this issue?
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Skip the step at 2:32. FFXIV overlay settings no longer exists.
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Hi, I downloaded ACT and installed with no problems, but for some reason it isnt registering my dps or alerts the only thing that seems to work is the timers, is there some sort of mute button maybe I enabled? Only pc gaming a couple of weeks so Im pretty new to this, I also uninstalled and redownloaded but hasnt worked either im stumped, any help would be gratefull 🙂 Subbed btw.
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I tried to do the steps you did, but as soon as I download the Plugin 77 for the DPS meter it just closes ACT after the download and if I`m trying to reopen it it just says that the shortcut its going with got changed or moved and if i wanna delete it. Done this several times now, but idk whats wrong
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Now I know why everyone always know how and where to dodge…..it's been so long and I didn't know this existed. Thank you.
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I watched another guide before this and thought mine just didn't work…but it turns out I was just too impatient and he was rambling too much, so I didn't get to the important part I needed. XD My ACT was trashed today when I had to hard-reboot my computer, so I was scrambling for literally 2 hours on my own trying to figure out what settings I needed to redo to make my robot voice come back to me. Turns out, it was the timers/alert overlay! So thank you very much for going over that, and MOST importantly, getting to it quickly. lol
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Weird, i followed all of your steps and while my damage meter works, the cactbot timers/alerts are not working
Edit: Never mind, i had to do a /coutndown instead of the /bow to test it. I saw someone on twitch use it with audio "move out" or "left". It's available in the cactbot menu in the overlayplugin.dll "default alert output text and tts"
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Where can i activate mob hp numbers in the new act?
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quick and to the point perfect explanation on everything ! awesome thanks
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best tuto for this thx mate
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So im having an issue where the alerts and the timer wont work, did a new update mess with it or something?
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