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Name

Final Fantasy XI Online

Version

Final Fantasy XI

License

Retail

URL

http://www.playonline.com/ff11...

Votes

404

Rating

Gold

Wine Version

1.1.32

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Maintainers of this version:

Description

Final Fantasy XI is the first online Final Fantasy RPG from Square Enix.

Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works
Installation, Updating, Normal Gameplay (Crafting, Campaign, etc.)

What does not
Shadows still have minor Z-Fighting/tearing.

What was not tested
Character Creation/Deletion

Additional Comments

I am not sure if it is the new driver that i am using from
Nvidia (190) or the new distro or the new version of Wine. But
 there does seem to be a noticable increase in graphical
 performance and a reduction in lag. also, no strange spell
 effects have YET been observed in this version.

also, columns =80 does not seem to be working on the appdb page
right now. added additional carriage returns to fix this comment

Test Results

	Distribution	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Rating	Submitter
Current	Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Oct 29 2009	1.1.32	Yes	Yes	Gold	Michael D
Show	Linux From Scratch	Oct 29 2009	1.1.32	Yes	Yes	Silver	Telek
Show	Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Oct 19 2009	1.1.31	Yes	No	Garbage	Jeremy Riley
Show	Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Oct 16 2009	1.1.31	Yes	Yes	Gold	Michael D
Show	Arch Linux 2009.08	Oct 06 2009	1.1.30	Yes	Yes	Platinum	Zachary Tahenakos

Known bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
1429	Getting dxdiag to work perfectly	NEW		View
16559	PixelFormat_WineD3DtoDD Can't translate this Pixelformat	NEW		View
18650	FFXI + POL crashes with OffscreenRenderingMode=fbo	NEW		View

Show all bugs

NOTE: Final Fantasy XI -- Rating

Understanding the Current Rating

Recently within one of the threads for Final Fantasy XI there was question as to why Final Fantasy XI had a Platinum rating( as of Sep, 6th 2009 ). For any others that may ponder this same question but do not read my response to this question, I feel I should convey the rating system within a more public note.

The overall rating of any application( Final Fantasy XI included ) within Wine's application database is automatic and based on the most recent test results submitted by testers. The platinum rating that prompted this initial question is/was based upon the last couple of submitted test results of which happened to be Platinum. Combine a Gold rating with Platinum rating as the last two test results submitted and the overall rating is Gold not Platinum.

The overall rating is based on the last two submitted results. Additionally, the current Wine version is reflective of the lowest of the last two submitted test results if both test results give different ratings. Otherwise, if both results are the same rating the latest version of Wine is given as overall version.

Maintainers DO NOT have control over the overall current rating of any application. The overall rating given in the database listing is based on submitted test results BY YOU the test result submitters. Therefore if an application is listed as Platinum does not mean that you may find such a great experience installing and running the application.

If an application has a high Gold or Platinum rating, check the submitters postings to see if they listed their hardware/software they used for their tests. Which leads to the following:

PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR SYSTEM SPECS IN YOUR TEST RESULTS AS THIS HELPS OTHERS TO GET FINAL FANTASY XI UP AND RUNNING!

Let us fans of Final Fantasy XI hope that future revisions of Wine continue to further improve the in-game game-play!

Jeremy Riley

HOWTO

HOWTO: Final Fantasy XI Vana'Diel Collection 2008

Wine-1.1.29

UPDATES:

Update: Sun Sep 6, 2009

After researching and performing tests on Window's XP I have found that many similar graphics issues are also prevelent on Window's. Most notable of my concerns was the displaying of sky in the far distance as opposed to the actual background that should be there. This appears to simply be limitations imposed by the max the background resolution is set at. The smaller the background resolution, the less background objects are drawn and thus replaced by the sky texture of the given area you are currently in. This issue is common for all 3D games and not limited to Final Fantasy XI.

Jeremy Riley

Update: Sat Sep 5, 2009

Recently spent the better part of 18 hours testing Wine-1.1.29. Wine-1.1.28 was good, but Wine-1.1.29 definitely improves performance on slower graphics cards. The following HOWTO has been updated to reflect the latest Wine version tests along with a few additions to tested hardware and other misc..

Jeremy Riley

Overview:

This HOWTO covers installing Final Fantasy XI from the retail box "VANA'DIEL COLLECTION 2008" DVD using Wine-1.1.29

NOTE: This HOWTO is based on a clean installation of Wine-1.1.29 on Ubuntu Jaunty( 9.04 ) using NVIDIA GeForce based graphics cards. Results may vary if other applications are currently installed within Wine, or a different operating system platform is used and/or a different graphics card is used. --This HOTO will be notated about alternative methods for operating system platforms and hardware where alternatives are known to be required. --Please help expand the hardware/software list by supplying your system hardware/software info and any alternative tweaking required for them. Thank You --Jeremy Riley

Known Working Hardware/Software providing a pleasant experience:

NOTE: The following hardware is known to provide a pleasant playable experience and based on the Platinum test results . Final Fantasy XI via Wine is not perfect! But at present, the game suffers very few installation and runtime issues. Hopefully future versions of Wine will increase to perfection. HOWTO is based on 'zero-config' installation, no tweaking of anything within Wine aside from setting Wine to VISTA mode.

Processors:

Intel Pentium 4 single-core ( x86 ) -- ( Desktop CPU )
Intel Pentium 4 single-core with hyperthreading ( x86 ) -- ( Desktop CPU )

Graphics Cards:

NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 DDR 256MB PCI ( dual vga with s-vid )
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 DDR2 256MB PCI ( vga, hdmi, s-vid )
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS DDR2 512MB PCI ( vga, hdmi, s-vid )
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT DDR2 1GB PCI-E ( vga, hdmi, s-vid ) (-- RECOMMENDED --)

Graphics Card Drivers:

NVIDIA 180 (-- RECOMMENDED --)
NVIDIA 173

Operating System Platforms:

Ubuntu Jaunty ( 9.04 )

Known Hardware/Software that fails to provide a usable experience:

Graphics Cards:

ATI RADEON HD 4350 1GB GDDR2 PCI-E-- Some crazy glitches all over the place with this card. Textures fail to draw or become 'rainbowed'. Will be performing tests with this card on other games and 3D applications to see if this is just trouble with Final Fantasy XI or this card in General upon Linux. The card works fine with Compiz 3D desktop but definitely fails running Final Fantasy XI using Ubuntu Jaunty, Wine-1.1.29, with the Catylist(version 9.8) ATI 3D driver installed for this card.

Graphics Card Drivers:

ATI CATALYST (9.8) --This driver was used to test the ATI RADEON HD 4350 1GB GDDR2 PCI-E card that failed to perform. Unless other ATI cards are tested and use this driver that perform great, this driver is listed as non-supported until such time. If you know this driver to work on an ATI graphics card other than the one listed as failing, please let us know.

Intallation:

Make sure your Graphics and Sound cards/drivers and installed and running properly.
Download and install Wine-1.1.29 if necessary( For best results remove prior versions of Wine )
Set Wine to VISTA mode!
Insert the Final Fantasy XI Vana'Diel Collection 2008 DVD
Open the DVD browsing window and double-click or right-click-select-open-with-wine on the file labeled Autorun.exe
Upon the Autorun navigation menu select Install PlayOnline and Tetra Master, follow the installation choosing all the defaults. Continue till finished and back at the Autorun navigation menu.
Back at the Autorun navigation menu select Install Final Fantasy XI, follow the installation choosing all the defaults, Continue till finished and back at the Autorun navigation menu.
Repeat this process for each of the expansion packs on the DVD. Completely ignore the Install DirectX 8 option as there is no need for this! Optionaly, feel free to run the system stat program also included on the DVD. This stat test will give you basic information about the registry entries the installation process has made etc.. Perhaps useful for debugging if you encounter errors.
Once installation is complete select the Final Fantasy XI Configuration utiltiy from the start menu shortcut or alternately from with the "FINAL FANTASY XI/ToolsXX/" folder. Where 'XX' represents country code e.g. 'ToolsUS' for the English language configuration utility. This step, like setting Wine to VISTA mode is extremely important! Failing to perform this step will result in unecessary non-working items that will result in erronous runtime and ultimately erronous test result postings. --Within this configuration utility set the main video resolution to match your screen resolution. Failing to do so may cause a crash when Final Fantasy XI enters fullscreen mode! --Keep in mind the power of your system hardware for the rest of the options! If you have a low-end graphics card simply set the main video resolution and exit. You can always run the tool again before the next time you start Final Fantasy XI and see how additional enhanced settings work for you.
Now that the configuration tool has been set, start up Final Fantasy XI. The PlayOnline viewer will update and restart.
Once PlayOnline has restarted, enter your login credentials or create new ones and navigate your way to the start Final Fantasy XI option. Final Fantasy XI will now update, grab some coffee and snack this can take hours depending on your connection speed and time of day you perform this task.
When the update is completed, login to Final Fantasy XI and rejoice in exploring the wonderful world of Vana'Diel via Wine!

Known Issues:

Shadows suffer from a 'Mini-Blind' affect. (NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards) (Also known to affect certain NVIDIA cards on Windows)
Occasionaly there is a 'twinkling' effect where textures meet where there appears to be a light shining through small holes. This issue is definitely prominate on smaller NVIDIA graphics cards although their are a few places where this occurs on 1GB NVIDIA graphics cards but less noticible unless your looking for them.(Also known to affect certain NVIDIA cards on Windows)
ATI cards appear to suffer a lot of undesired issues, especially when it comes to drawing to the screen. Textures fail to load altogether and/or take on a rainbow effect of patterns ranging from straight multi-coloured lines to multi-coloured blotches.(Also known to affect certain ATI cards on Windows)

Improvements with Wine-1.1.29:

Overall performance; smaller graphics cards benefit greatly with less noticible lag.
Noted issues about slight delay of audio within prior versions of Wine not corresponding to the current action has improved slightly upon smaller graphics cards. --This issue does not appear to occur upon 1GB graphics cards, even the ATI RADEON 4350 that was tested and fails miserably graphically, does not produce lag with audio to action.

NOTE: The following HOWTO immediately following is based on Wine-1.1.12 and slightly outdated with the current version of Wine(1.1.29). Certain portions will be pulled into this HOWTO. Until then it will be left as an 'alternate' method of installation for those of whom cannot seem to get the simple point and click once on the Autorun.exe as outlined in this HOWTO.

MAINTAINERS OF THIS HOWTO:

Maintainers: Please add your name if you help expand this HOWTO so proper credit is given and provide a brief update note at the top with items you added/altered. --Thank You Jeremy Riley

Jeremy Riley*

* F.Y.I. I have enjoyed my entire stay in Vana'Diel Via Wine and Ubuntu Linux since 2007! There once was a time when every minor PlayOnline and/or Final Fantasy XI update would require a complete reconfiguration. Sometimes days, weeks, and even the occasional month would go by before I had the ability to rejoin my friends exploring and adventuring. Any issues we have now are mere speed bumbs compared to the old days! ENJOY FFXI !! Peace!

HOWTO

HOWTO - Final Fantasy XI: The Vana'diel Collection 2008

Introduction

This HOWTO will help you get Final Fantasy XI setup on your machine using "The Vana'diel Collection 2008" retail package, or equivalent media. Here you will also find a guide to get the PlayOnline Viewer running. This HOWTO is complete to the best knowledge of its creators, however, there may be some errors that have not been resolved.

Please note that in order to run this game, you will most likely NEED the proprietary drivers for your graphics card(s). Open-source drivers are known to have problems with 3D rendering, and may render many things incorrectly or slowly. Please bear this in mind when submitting test results, as well.

Installation

Insert "The Vana'diel Collection 2008" dvd into your dvd drive.
In a terminal session, type in "wine /path/to/dvdrom/PlayOnline/setup.exe".
From here, you will be guided by a setup wizard. Choosing all defaults is acceptable.
After the PlayOnline Viewer is finished installing, click finish on the wizard if you haven't done so already.
Type in "cd/path/to/dvdrom/INST1" to go into the install directory for Final Fantasy XI.
Type in "wine setup.exe".
A wizard will appear that will guide you through setting up Final Fantasy XI. Again, choosing all defaults is acceptable.
After installation is complete for Final Fantasy XI, you may be given a choice to restart your machine. Choose "No, I will restart my machine later" and click finish.
From here, type in "cd/path/to/dvdrom/INST2".
Type in "wine setup.exe".
Follow the wizard for setting up Rise of the Zilart, choosing all defaults, and selecting to restart your computer later, if prompted.
Type in "cd/path/to/dvdrom/INST4".
Type in "wine setup.exe".
Follow the wizard for setting up Treasures of AhtUrhgan, choosing all defaults, and selecting to restart your computer later if prompted.
Type in "cd/path/to/dvdrom/INST5".
Type in "wine setup.exe".
Follow the wizard for setting up Wings of the Goddess, choosing all defaults, and selecting to restart your computer later if prompted.
You may now umount your installation media. Be sure to store it in a safe place.

Configuring/Updating/Running

You will need a copy of dxdiagn.dll from an actual Windows XP installation. Copy it over to your wine's system32 folder any way you see fit.
Type in "wine regsvr32 C:\\windows\\system32\\dxdiagn.dll".
Type in "winecfg".
On the Applications tab, click "Add Application".
Navigate to C:\Program Files\PlayOnline\SquareEnix\PlayOnlineViewerPlayOnlineViewer\ and select pol.exe, then click "Open".
Highlight pol.exe in the Application List, then click the Libraries tab.
Select dxdiagn from the drop-down box on that tab, and click "Add".
Select dxdiagn from the list below and click "Edit".
Select "native (Windows)" and click OK. then click Apply.
Here the PlayOnline Viewer will be updated. Follow the instructions to update the viewer.
After PlayOnline Viewer is updated, the viewer will ask you to click next to restart it. Do so, and PlayOnline Viewer Should restart.
Once logged in, you may run Final Fantasy XI. It will be updated upon running them for the first time, this is the perfect opportunity to eat some cheesecake, because the initial update could take hours.
Once the update has completed, Final Fantasy XI should launch with your desired settings.
Go to a heavily populated area, and type "/sh Final Fantasy XI Runs In Linux!!" into Final Fantasy, and press Enter

Running more than one instance of FFXI:

In a shell do:

WINEPREFIX="/home/$USER/.wine-second" wine /path/to/first/full/FFXI/Install/pol.exe

This will create a new instance directory for wine in your home folder. It will be named .wine-second
You will get a few errors. You can dismiss all of them.
Use your favourite file handling utility and copy the complete PlayOnline folder from your previous (/home/yourname/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/) wine instance to your new instance. (Yes you will need two installs of FFXI for this to work)
Make sure you copy your original install from it's root folder in the Program Files directory to the Program Files directory of your new wine instance. The folder named PlayOnline is all you need to copy.

Now you should have one original install in:

/home/yourname/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/PlayOnline/
and one copy of that install in:
/home/yourname/.wine-second/drive_c/Program Files/PlayOnline/

In a shell do:
```
regedit
```
Now make sure that the root of the registry is selected in the tree structure on the left hand side. In English the root is called 'My Computer'
Now click the following sequence in the Regedit menu bar:
'Registry -> Export registry file'
Select a location to save your registry export. (Suggest saving to desktop for easy removal after you are done)
Close the registry editor.

In a shell do:

WINEPREFIX="/home/$USER/.wine-second" regedit

You are now editing the registry information for your new instance of wine.
Once again; select the root of the registry (My Computer). Then click the following sequence in the registry editor:
'Registry -> Import registry file'
Select the file you saved in the previous regedit instance. (The one I suggested you save to your desktop)
Once the file has been imported... (might take a while depending on size of registry) you are ready to start using two instances of FFXI at the same time on the same computer.
You may now delete the .reg file that you saved to your desktop.

To start the first instance of FFXI use:

wine /path/to/first/full/FFXI/Install/pol.exe

To start the second instance of FFXI use:

WINEPREFIX="/home/$USER/.wine-second" wine /path/to/copy/of/full/FFXI/Install/pol.exe

The default path to an install is: /home/username/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/PlayOnline/
This guide is crude and in an initial stage. In time it will be optimised.

Known Issues As of 1.1.12:

Shading/lighting is a little strange in some areas.
- key on numpad fails to bring up the menu. Ctrl+- works. (This error seems to be an issue to some and not others.)
Shadow Effects create low framerate.

Other Recommendations/Info:

Disabling shadows altogether causes a speedup.
Desktop Effects (Compiz) should be disabled if flickering of the screen occurs.
Please use the latest version of wine if possible, if not, there is a list of known working versions at the bottom of this guide.

Note

The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.

by Floyd on Wednesday November 18th 2009, 22:07

Ok here goes...

Tried this on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

using Vana'diel Collection 2005 (XP)

running on Acer Aspire One with Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Under wine 1.1.32, I installed POL and FFXI from the VC2005 disk, set the library for POL to dxdiagn (native, builtin), set the resolution for FFXI equal to screen. I have two bugs that prevent gameplay: POL crashes as soon as it launches unless it is in fullscreen mode, and FFXI graphics and text are foobar. Any ideas/advice?

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RE: by Cosma on Thursday November 19th 2009, 0:46

RE: by Floyd on Friday November 20th 2009, 19:13

Found an issue....
by Alan Gindlesperger on Saturday November 7th 2009, 14:31

I had to update my payment info since I switched banks and no longer had the card that was on file. As some of you may know, Square has a new policy of only using cards that they can verify through additional layers of security (which for me means Verified by Visa).

As part of the payment info update process, the POL Viewer will try to launch a web browser so you can complete their new process for verifying your credit card. This does not work under Linux.

I don't know if POL Viewer is trying to launch Internet Explorer, or if it's trying to launch whatever the Windows user has defined as their default browser.

Luckily for me, I have friends who play FFXI and thus was able to log in as a guest player on their machine and update my info that way.

Just wanted to pass this info along, as it will most likely affect everyone who needs to change their payment info.

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RE: Found an issue.... by Zachary Tahenakos on Saturday November 7th 2009, 17:13

Would anyone be interested in a Linux Linkshell?
by Alan Gindlesperger on Friday November 6th 2009, 16:05

I haven't played FFXI in a while as I've been busy with work and school, and I've also been playing with different distros on my computer too.

This weekend I plan on getting back into FFXI and I was sort of thinking about seeing if there was any interest in a Linux Linkshell. I envision it as a regular linkshell where we just talk about whatever, help each other on quests/missions, as well as discussing Linux and getting FFXI to run on Linux.

The major problem, of course, is the fact that FFXI has many worlds, and I doubt all of us are somehow magically playing in the same world. This means that for some, creating a new character on a new server would be a requirement.

Still, I wanted to see if the idea would appeal to anyone, and perhaps get an idea of the servers (worlds) we play on. My character is on the Phoenix server.

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by Zachary Tahenakos on Friday October 30th 2009, 10:42

Are you using 64bit wine or 32bit wine? I found on Fedora that if I used the 64bit wine in the repos i couldnt even install POL, I had to build the 32bit wine on fedora. But ive ran FFXI on 64bit Arch and Fedora on 32bit wine and it works better than 32bit Ubuntu 9.04

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Any Linux distro friendly?
by Zachary Tahenakos on Thursday October 22nd 2009, 21:29

So is it me guys? Or (depending on your pc ofcourse) is this game good to funciton on ANY distro? Ive had great luck so far with Ubuntu 9.04/8.10, Arch Overlord, and Fedora 11 all 64bit.

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RE: Any Linux distro friendly? by Cosma on Friday October 23rd 2009, 0:58

RE: Any Linux distro friendly? by Teast on Friday October 30th 2009, 9:52

RE: Any Linux distro friendly? by Alan Gindlesperger on Saturday November 7th 2009, 16:57

Works on my Debian
by Teast on Sunday October 18th 2009, 4:48

Hello,

I have been thinking of posting here but I have not done it until now.
Me and my wife are both playing FFXI fulltime on both of ours Debian systems.

It have gone a few months (one year to be exact) now from when we moved over to linux for FFXI.
We both plays with gamepads and in fake window mode (wines desktop emulation)

The biggest "problem" that we have with FFXI on our system is the shadow rendering from caves etc. (flickering + hard edges on the shadow "sprite")

So let me list our systems and (hopefully all) our configurations.

Debian unstable + testing
(got links to both type of repositories in my source.list file)
wine 1.1.13
(with IME fix + a personally fix for the rumblepack on the gamepad. I changed the code so it wouldn't try to guess the rumble-type and instead use one specific)

My and my wifes systems:
AMD Athlon 64 6000+ 2GHz
2Gb memory
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 1024 Mb memory

Yes, we got almost the same systems (except for harddrive types and motherboard type and other extra hardwares)

So about our configurations in wine, ffxi and debian.

For wine we have done the following changes:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"DirectDrawRender"="opengl"
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"OpenGL"="enabled"
"PixelShaderMode"="enabled"
"RenderTargetLockMode"="auto"
"UseGLSL"="enabled"
"VertexShaderMode"="hardware"
"VideoDescription"="NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT"
"VideoDriver"="nv4_disp.dll"
"VideoMemorySize"="1024"

I'm pretty sure that we ran the DirectX9 installation and (not as sure) .NET installation.

FFXI:
General:
* no MIP mapping
* no windowed mode.
Screen size:
* overlay 1280x1024
* background 1024x1024
Textures:
Uncompressed on both
Effects
* no bump mapping
* Environmental animation is off
Misc
* hardware mouse enabled
* simplified character creation enabled

And ingame we have turned off shadow effects, weather effects, footstep effects.

Finally gnome configuration: compiz :)

We had weather effects active before we started doing campaign battles (it can get really shoppy with all the mobs during a storm weather effect)

I hope I have remembered everything thing!
Feel free to ask if you have any questions or want me to give some more information (I have probably forgot tons of information)
/Teast and his wife Zeldia

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Cannot create account
by Mitchell SChwitzer on Monday October 5th 2009, 19:41

Since the introduction of the 3D-Secure system, I cannot create a PlayOnline account with Linux. The "Payer Authentication" button does not open a browser for me when I click on it. This means I cannot authenticate my credit card and create my account. Anyone know of a way around this?

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freezing
by Michael D on Monday October 5th 2009, 8:24

I haven't seen any posts about freezing too recently, though i have been noticing it more and more. It seems to occur at very specific conditions: upon targeting specific targets, at a specific distance, and sometimes facing a certain general directional range.
I am looking for more information before submitting a bug report. Please let me know if you are also experiencing this problem.
Please also include which version of WINE you first began to experience this in. I /think/ that it was around version 1.1.21 when i started experiencing this bug, but i know that some were reporting it earlier.

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NVIDIA Video Cards
by Jeremy Riley on Thursday September 10th 2009, 5:27

Anyone having issues with NVIDIA cards to the point that Final Fantasy XI is absolutely unplayable? Thus far there seems to be a good number of NVIDIA cards that give an enjoyable in-game experience with minor issues of shadows not working correctly but these do not appear to hinder in-game performance; rather, they just look funny and are mildly annoying to the eye. And, if too unbearable they are almost eliminated if completely disabling shadows. Not a real fix, but one that is available for any that deem this necessary.

Will be checking on current bug status/existence and filing new where needed.

No doubt part of the reason Final Fantasy XI is less prone to issues on NVIDIA cards as FFXI and NVIDIA partnered up during production and thus NVIDIA has ensured that any 'special' methods of rending Final Fanatasy XI were supported by NVIDIA cards. When Final Fantasy XI entered the drawing board they pushed some new ground and did not always follow the standard rendering practices of the day and some of which are still not followed today. But, the Final Fantasy franchise has always done their best to push new limits and explore new frontiers and have long reaped countless awards and recognition for their pioneering efforts!

As for Wine's ability to pass this information along to the video driver is one thing, and yet another if NVIDIA has simply not currently supported the *Nix driver fully enough to allow FFXI to run as smooth as possible. As close as NVIDIA drivers and cards come at present though, the issues are likely within Wine not currently being able to pass the right info back and forth to the video card.

Hopefully all will be resolved soon and interested to hear what others have experienced!

Jeremy Riley

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ATI Video Cards
by Jeremy Riley on Thursday September 10th 2009, 4:49

Anyone running ATI video cards? If so what kind, what driver, and are you having issues with this line of card? Also, have you found any one version of Wine to perform better with this card if the latest version of Wine has messed things up?

I have tried an ATI RADEON HD 4350 1GB GDDR2 on both Wine versions 1.1.28 and 1.1.29 and YUK! Game-play is possible but get around any light and WHEW! Starburst blindness everywhere!

There is also many issues of textures failing to draw altogether and/or drawn but look more like a dayglow kaleidoscope of every colour in the rainbow.

I am working on figuring out what bug reports need filed if none exist and/or if they do exist see if there is any patch or progress of a fix available.

I have a 128MB and 256MB (older) ATI cards but both are AGP 2.0 slot cards and my one computer with AGP 2.0 recently passed on and the other AGP board I have is AGP 1.0 and thus incompatible to run the AGP 2.0 cards.../sigh

Interested in hearing your success or lack of success with ATI cards!

At the moment anyway, if you are having issues with your ATI card and thinking a new video card may solve your problems, look into NVIDIA as replacement( At least until someone informs of a working ATI card! ). At the moment NVIDIA has the highest success rate. No doubt due to the fact that Final Fantasy XI and NVIDIA partnered up when FFXI first launched production.

It would be super nice if "ALL" video cards ran FFXI without any hitches! Not only would this help fans of Final Fantasy XI but other games and applications would benefit!

Jeremy Riley

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Works on Arch
by Zachary Tahenakos on Tuesday September 8th 2009, 21:03

Im Using the current version of Arch Linux, x86_64, works flawlessly save for shadow issue.
System:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8ghz 1333 FSB 3mb L2Cache
4GB Ram
250GB HD
EVGA Geforce 8600GT PCIex16 card 128mb Ram

Arch Distro: Most current
x86_64
System Layout: 4 PTs, root swap var home
DE: KDEmod 4.x

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RE: Works on Arch by Jeremy Riley on Wednesday September 9th 2009, 16:06

RE: Works on Arch by Zachary Tahenakos on Wednesday September 9th 2009, 22:59

RE: Works on Arch by Jeremy Riley on Thursday September 10th 2009, 4:22

RE: Works on Arch by Zachary Tahenakos on Thursday September 10th 2009, 8:44

POL either black or 'barcode' text
by Audrich Basilson on Saturday September 5th 2009, 18:15

I've tried this on a different computer with a fresh install of Jaunty and i am getting the same issues where POL is black (but sound works) if windowed, and when run fullscreen the text is mixed up. Can someone explain how to correct this, atleast so I can read the text and get through POL and see how FFXI runs???

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RE: POL either black or 'barcode' text by Audrich Basilson on Saturday September 5th 2009, 22:18

RE: POL either black or 'barcode' text by Jeremy Riley on Sunday September 6th 2009, 15:35

RE: POL either black or 'barcode' text by Audrich Basilson on Sunday September 6th 2009, 17:38

RE: POL either black or 'barcode' text by Jeremy Riley on Sunday September 6th 2009, 19:11

RE: POL either black or 'barcode' text by Audrich Basilson on Sunday September 6th 2009, 20:16

RE: POL either black or 'barcode' text by Jeremy Riley on Sunday September 6th 2009, 20:46

RE: POL either black or 'barcode' text by Audrich Basilson on Monday September 7th 2009, 0:22

RE: POL either black or 'barcode' text by Cosma on Monday September 7th 2009, 1:12

RE: POL either black or 'barcode' text by Jeremy Riley on Monday September 7th 2009, 5:41

RE: POL either black or 'barcode' text by Frank McDermott on Sunday September 20th 2009, 19:02

RE: POL either black or 'barcode' text by Cosma on Monday September 21st 2009, 9:49

Installation Notes Ubuntu(Jaunty)--Wine-1.1.28
by Jeremy Riley on Tuesday September 1st 2009, 4:46

The following info is based on a clean installation of Ubuntu Jaunty(9.04) and Wine-1.1.28

The absolute fresh installation helped ensure that no other items had been installed somewhere by some program that by chance helped the installation and runtime of Final Fantasy XI( FFXI ), thus potentially giving false results to the installation and runtime testimonial.

I have performed this task several times thus far with plans to perform further testing using the various hardware I have laying about.

The system hardware I have thus far tested on is my Intel 3.0GHz Hyperthreaded mainboard with 3GB and then later 4GB of system memory. I have also performed once using one of the 256MB graphics card(the 5200 witch I will spec out shortly), upon my Intel 3.0GHz single-core with 2GB of system memory.

Setting things up; I installed Ubuntu Jaunty(9.04) from my installation media and wiped out any/all prior partitions and installations. Upon initial boot-up I installed the proprietary NVIDIA drivers for my graphics card(s).

--NOTE: The NVIDIA testing has been performed using the following cards:
NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 DDR 256MB PCI (dual vga and single s-vid out )
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 DDR2 256MB PCI ( vga, hdmi, and s-vid out )
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS DDR2 512MB PCI ( vga, hdmi, and s-vid out )
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT DDR2 1GB PCI-E ( vga, hdmi, and s-vid out )

--NOTE: The following stable-release NVIDIA drivers have been tested with these cards:
180
173

Once the 3D drivers were installed and the system rebooted fine without any hiccups, I downloaded the source for the latest( at time of this post ) version of Wine, version 1.1.28

While Wine was downloading I fired up the Terminal and grabbed the dependencies needed for building/running Wine.

CODE:
sudo apt-get build-dep wine

Once Wine was downloaded and the dependencies were satisfied I extracted the Wine archive and navigated the Terminal focus to the newly extracted Wine source directory. In my case I extracted the downloaded archive to my desktop. In the terminal:
CODE:
cd Desktop/wine-1.1.28

Once inside I ran:
CODE:
./configure

Followed by:
CODE:
make depend && make

Finally:
CODE:
sudo make install

Once installation I ran post-installation check(again from the terminal).
CODE:
wine --version

Getting an output of "wine-1.1.28" satisfied me so I ran the configuration utility.
CODE:
winecfg

In the resulting configuration utility window I switched the default mode from XP to Vista. Then from the drives tab, performed a auto search of devices. Finally, I selected the audio tab and let Wine figure out my audio( Alsa ), performed a test sound and upon hearing a test sound, I hit the apply tab at the bottom of Wine's configuration utility and exited the utility.

Once Configured I inserted my Final Fantasy XI VANA'DIEL Collection 2008 DVD installation media. Waited for the DVD drive to appear on my desktop and opened the drive file viewer. Once open, I selected the Autorun.exe file and double-clicked.

When The Final Fantasy installer window popped I hit the Install PlayOnline Viewer and TetraMaster button. I left everything default except adding desktop shortcuts. I chose to not add them as in part I hate clutter on my desktop and they do not work anyway without additional post installation tweaking. Of which it is far easier and quicker to right click the startup launch icon once FFXI is installed and add a shortcut to the desktop or launch panel. --Note this is not a FFXI installation failure, this is just something I believe Wine/Ubuntu does not support accurately yet as I have never found this to work.

Once PlayOnline is installed I proceeded to install FFXI and all the subsequent expansions on the installation DVD Autorun Menu. --No need for DirectX 8 installation as Wine has this covered. Once all expansions were complete I exited the installer DVD and navigated to the start-up links now created within the Applications tab of my navigation bar: 'Applications/Wine/....'

Before starting FFXI, It is wise to run the FFXI configuration utility and set the runtime resolution to match your desktop resolution settings. On my Acer X203H LCD I run a 1600x900 resolution. Within FFXI's configuration utility I set the resolution to match my screen -at- 1600x900

NOTE: I have also tested this with an older HP1502 14" LCD running -at- 1024x780 and various( even older ) analogue CRT displays ranging in size from 14" up to 19" with screen resolutions from 1024x780 up to 1200x1024. Each time setting the FFXI resolutions to match my outputs display resolution.

Now, configurations tested ranged from the default settings given within the configuration utility(best for the smaller 256MB graphics cards I tested with), up to the maximum quality settings(best for the 1GB graphics card I tested with).

Once configuration is set(especially the runtime resolution set to match your display resolution), I proceeded to start FFXI from the start-up menu listing.

Upon first run, the PlayOnline viewer( POL ), will need updated, I updated; POL restarted and I submitted my login credentials(I have also tested creating a new account from this prompt with no issues). Once login credentials are supplied, I entered the game; before playing there are updates and depending on your internet connection speed and time of day you perform this task will depend on how long this takes. The shortest update I encountered was less than 45 minutes, and the longest was a little over 3 hours so be prepared to do a lot of waiting.

Once updated, I selected my character(even created/deleted a character), and ran about testing everything I could possibly think of in game. The only performance issues I encountered were related to the video and system hardware I used. No configurations were made to NVIDIA's configuration utility to enhance graphic output--all tests were performed with default settings in place.

Otherwise, the only issues I encountered were the in-game navigation options dialog buttons were unreadable if I ran the game in windowed mode upon the CRT monitors. I do not consider this a bug as this issue is quite common running FFXI on Window's(R) while in windowed mode. Something I have experienced myself and found that countless others have also encountered this issue running Window's(R) according to various Web postings I have found online when I first encountered this issue.

That should do it for this posting. Remember, "SET WINE TO VISTA MODE" and everything should(as I have found in my testing), work out of the box with zero pre or post tweaking aside from the normal use of the FFXI configuration utility that is required to do on a standard Window's(R) installation of FFXI.

Final Fantasy XI rates a Platinum from my findings.

Additionally, I plan to post some results using ATI graphics cards in the near future, and additional system hardware of the core-duo and core-quad variety(not to mention AMD chipsets of the same). --I just purchased an ATI RADEON HD 4350 GDDR2 1GB PCI-E card and plan on finding time to perform a test for this graphics card. I will post my findings once the results are in.

Until next time; Enjoy your stay in VANA'DIEL, but don't forget friends/family/job/school, etc....!!

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Title screen blacked out, varous other issues.
by Aaron on Tuesday August 25th 2009, 2:14

Running a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.4 with 1.1.28 (updated from 1.0.1 to see if it would fix these issues, didn't) with a 7800 geforce and the recommended proprietary driver that was recomended in "Hardware drivers"

I installed via the 9 disks from the original installation disks though the expansions.

I copied the dxdiagn.dll from my xp and set it up in wineconfig.

I've also, to save some time, after the install, renamed the folder and copied over an updated install that I had from windows.

After getting problems with POL viewer, where I can only see the menu only if it is in a certain location of the desktop or full screened (with or without the wine virtual desktop, but without causes it to mess up the display resolution)

the game checked all the files, and I was able to get into final fantasy. However, once I get to the actual Title screen (Where it shows places like gustaburg) I have a solid black window(or screen if in fullscreen). The terminal window is flooded with:

fixme:imm:ImeSetCompositionString PROBLEM: This only sets the wine level string
fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x134f48): semi-stub

I did get to the tile screen once with the windowed mode turned on, however it was off centre and the frame rate would have made the game unplayable. The terminal displayed the same thing as in fullscreen. It promptly crashed on exit.

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RE: Title screen blacked out, varous other issues. by Aaron on Tuesday August 25th 2009, 22:31

RE: Title screen blacked out, varous other issues. by Michael D on Wednesday August 26th 2009, 9:54

lock up on target selection
by Michael D on Tuesday August 11th 2009, 0:17

i believe i may have discovered the problem with lock ups caused by triggering an event (the same event allways causing a lock up). i recently reinstalled ffxi and did not use the same proceedure as normal (still installing rise of the zilart 10 minutes before dynamis entrance time can make you do funny things) which resulted in several failed attempts to log in that were later fixed (dll overrides and the like). after installing in this way, i found that i was able to encounter these mysterious lock ups that others had discribed (lower jeuno npc selection, for me it was zelecting anything in an area of south sandoria (s) from a certain distance at a certain angle) i am going to attempt to reinstall again using the method i used to and see if this fixes it and post the results.
hope this can help those suffering from this basically just try reinstalling without trying to start pol until all settings are correct

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by Michael D on Monday August 10th 2009, 23:53

do you have dxdiagn.dll set to run as native(windows)? i have experienced similar problems when neglecting that setting

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Black POL
by Ryan on Sunday July 26th 2009, 18:07

My POL was only displaying a black screen and I could hear sound but I got it working now and wanted to put up my information for anyone else who was stuck at the same point.

I am running ubuntu 9.04, have an nvidia gtx 285 and installed the 185.18.14 driver. I used the Vana'Diel 2008 collection disc and copied dxdiagn.dll from my dual boot vista mount. In winecfg I set pol.exe to use the vista windows version and under the graphics tab I had to check emulate a virtual desktop and set the size to 640x480 then i ran polcfg.exe under wine and unchecked enable sound and enable windowed mode.

After doing all that I finally got it to work and hope this can help others.

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FFXI Crashing by Ryan on Sunday July 26th 2009, 23:17

by Audrich Basilson on Saturday July 25th 2009, 23:53

Hey Mike, thanks for the reply. That sorted it out. However now I'm having a new issue where POL gets funky graphics when I try to enter my account password, and freezes up the entire computer when I try to connect. The music still plays though...

I turned off compiz like was suggested in earlier threads. I also copied over the POL files from my existing Windows version (up to date), so there's no upside down problems, just freezing up.

Any advice?

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RE: by Michael D on Tuesday August 11th 2009, 0:06

RE: by Michael D on Wednesday August 12th 2009, 23:29

Installation path
by Audrich Basilson on Wednesday July 22nd 2009, 23:08

My question is there a specific location to install the files? I installed POL under /usr/lib/ffxi and it installed completely, but when I went to install FFXI, it started automatically looking for a generic C:/Program Files... type of location for POL, and when it could not find it, said "can't find POL, install that first" and quit installation.

What's the fix for this? I'm sure it's simple, as this is my first attempt at using Wine. For reference my Wine is 1.1.26 and my OS is Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. Thank you for any responses.

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RE: Installation path by Audrich Basilson on Thursday July 23rd 2009, 0:08

RE: Installation path by Audrich Basilson on Thursday July 23rd 2009, 0:50

RE: Installation path by Michael D on Friday July 24th 2009, 12:46

No Character models
by Eric Biernacki on Wednesday July 15th 2009, 17:31

Ok guys i am so close.. i was able to fix a lot of problems, including a black playonline viewer, wine hanging after launching ffxi, and a black screen after selecting my character.
However after some tweaks that i got from these comments, i am able to log into my character and play the game... except that i don't see any other character models at all. no NPCs, no players, no mobs. just a big open world. Also i can't autotarget any of the objects such as doors and home crystals. I am so close! does anybody have any ideas on how to fix this problem?

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RE: No Character models by Eric Biernacki on Friday July 17th 2009, 3:09

RE: No Character models by Eric Biernacki on Sunday July 19th 2009, 13:33

RE: No Character models by Cosma on Monday July 20th 2009, 2:14

RE: No Character models by Eric Biernacki on Monday July 20th 2009, 17:28

RE: No Character models by Cosma on Tuesday July 21st 2009, 0:43

RE: No Character models by Eric Biernacki on Tuesday July 21st 2009, 13:29

RE: No Character models by Eric Biernacki on Monday July 20th 2009, 17:29

by Kayce on Monday July 13th 2009, 4:19

Terminal, Regedit, find FFXI installation (HKEY_LOC_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > PlayOnlineUS > SquareEnix > FinarFantasyXI)
Registry keys in FinalFantasyXI folder 0001 and 0002 are your foreground res, 0003 and 0004 are background res, change the background res to match your foreground that you wish to use and your black voids at the bottom of the screen should disappear.

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RE: by Kayce on Monday July 13th 2009, 4:21

ok..
by Nick on Sunday July 12th 2009, 10:36

Alright, my free trial ended yesterday, so where do i put my Regular registration code since i used the free trial one first? because i have never used my FFXI one, just the free one

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RE: ok.. by Nick on Sunday July 12th 2009, 11:56

Black Screen on POL
by Tyler Fitzner on Wednesday July 8th 2009, 18:15

I have done everything to follow and install FFXI and the POL but when i go to run the program in terminal everything works but all i can hear is music and the POL screen is completly black. Please help????

using the latest for WINE

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RE: Black Screen on POL by Zachary Tahenakos on Wednesday July 8th 2009, 23:39

RE: Black Screen on POL by Tyler Fitzner on Wednesday July 8th 2009, 23:53

RE: Black Screen on POL by MariaGrazia Iodice on Thursday July 23rd 2009, 1:48

RE: Black Screen on POL by Cosma on Thursday July 9th 2009, 11:12

RE: Black Screen on POL by Alan Gindlesperger on Thursday July 9th 2009, 21:04

Black Voids upon maximize in windowed mode
by Zachary Tahenakos on Wednesday July 8th 2009, 12:38

Hey! im running wine 1.1.24 and got this to work on first shot without fbo tweak... I have ubuntu 9.04 set to 1280 x 1024 resolution, and I have FFXI set to 1280x800 for its resolution.. if i maximize it I have black voids on the screen, how do I fix this?

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RE: Black Voids upon maximize in windowed mode by Cosma on Friday July 10th 2009, 6:23

RE: Black Voids upon maximize in windowed mode by Zachary Tahenakos on Sunday July 12th 2009, 19:47

by JD on Wednesday July 8th 2009, 4:33

Nevermind, same results with 1.1.24 even though it was working. Hmm.. I wonder what broke..

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RE: by Alan Gindlesperger on Wednesday July 8th 2009, 11:45

Problems witn 1.1.25
by JD on Wednesday July 8th 2009, 2:45

Having some issues with the latest release.

(Remember I'm using OffscreenRenderingMode=backbuffer, because fbo freezes on launch. Bug 18650)

Issue 1: Game crashes after selecting charter. I'm unable to login. Some brief output is..

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x74bd2000 at address 0xf7c93f53 (thread 001b), starting debugger...
Backtrace:
=>0 0xf7c93f53 memmove+0x23() in libc.so.6 (0x0033e99c)
1 0x7d3f8c44 in wined3d (+0xc8c44) (0x0033e9fc)
2 0x7d7408da in d3d8 (+0x108da) (0x0033ea7c)
err:dbghelp_msc:pe_load_debug_directory Got a page fault while loading symbols
3 0x012f7c80 in ffximain (+0x67c80) (0x1c9fcaff)
4 0x001e2018 (0x00000000)
0xf7c93f53 memmove+0x23 in libc.so.6: repe movsl (%esi),%es:(%edi)

Issue 2: Occasionally numbers typed in for the security token do not display in pol. It just shows a blank space. Not as critical as the above but I just thought I would report it.

I think I'm going to fall back to 1.1.24 for the time being. Again this is using wine 1.1.25 on Ubuntu Jaunty with amd64 and radeon 38xx.

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RE: Problems witn 1.1.25 (fixed disregard) by JD on Friday July 10th 2009, 21:41

Wine 1.1.25
by Randy on Tuesday July 7th 2009, 15:52

Not a big deal but after an upgrade from 1.24 to 1.25 I saw some graphics glitches in some of the spells casted like utsusemi, paralyze, and sometimes with warp. A line streaks out near the end of the spell.
Anyone else getting this?

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RE: Wine 1.1.25 by Randy on Tuesday July 7th 2009, 19:00

RE: Wine 1.1.25 by Randy on Friday July 24th 2009, 22:19

by Michael D on Thursday July 2nd 2009, 11:11

I have not seen that issue, it looks like you may have a unique situation. I am not sure just what may cause it, but i would look into mapping ctrl 6 or alt 6 to some other program/feature and see if it activates. that should let you know if it is unique to FFXI on your computer or if there is a keymap problem or a keyboard problem.

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Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others
by Alan Gindlesperger on Tuesday June 30th 2009, 8:10

As you may have read in my other posts, I can get FFXI working flawlessly under Wine 1.1.18. Any version after 1.1.18 I have the following problems:
1. If the install (and the POL/FFXI update) was all handled in Wine 1.1.18 and I try to upgrade to any newer version of Wine, I cannot exit the game. If I /shutdown or /logout and click on "Back" I just get a black screen. Often times I'll get a message from wine saying that pol.exe caused an error.

2. If I try to do the update for PlayOnline Viewer in a version of Wine after 1.1.18, after the update is complete, when the viewer tries to restart itself, I get an error stating that it could not replace "polhook.dll" If I then restart PlayOnline Viewer myself, it seems to work, and FFXI updates the way it should, but when I exit the game I get the same error above with the black screen and the occasional message from Wine about pol.exe causing an error.

Now, I know that this doesn't happen to everyone. As evidenced by the tests that are posted and the some of the comments left for this application, the game seems to work fine for a few people with the latest versions of Wine. Why I (and I'm sure others) can't get it to work above 1.1.18 is beyond me (it's not from a lack of trying, that's for sure).

I do have an idea though. I know that many of you install FFXI from the Vana'Diel Collection 2008 DVD-ROM. I install from the 2007 DVD-ROM and Wings of the Goddess from the stand alone expansion DVD-ROM. Perhaps, there was a change made to the way Installshield installs the game on the 2008 Vana'Diel Collection. It could be something small like a change in how it writes the install info to the registry. But, perhaps that's the problem. Do you think this is an avenue worth exploring (I have a friend with the 2008 collection, I could try to install from his DVD-ROM as opposed to spending $20 just to test a theory).

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RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Tripnotic@asura on Tuesday June 30th 2009, 15:41

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Alan Gindlesperger on Tuesday June 30th 2009, 22:48

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Murasura on Wednesday July 1st 2009, 13:52

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Alan Gindlesperger on Wednesday July 1st 2009, 15:56

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Alan Gindlesperger on Wednesday July 1st 2009, 19:03

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Murasura on Thursday July 2nd 2009, 3:47

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Alan Gindlesperger on Saturday July 4th 2009, 12:11

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Alan Gindlesperger on Monday July 6th 2009, 7:45

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Murasura on Monday July 6th 2009, 14:44

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Alan Gindlesperger on Wednesday July 8th 2009, 11:39

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Murasura on Wednesday July 8th 2009, 18:39

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Alan Gindlesperger on Thursday July 30th 2009, 11:40

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Murasura on Tuesday August 4th 2009, 15:14

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Alan Gindlesperger on Thursday August 6th 2009, 6:10

RE: Idea about why FFXI works on later versions of Wine for some and not others by Murasura on Thursday August 6th 2009, 16:12

Macro problem
by Tripnotic@asura on Sunday June 21st 2009, 3:51

Hi everyone,

I got a problem with my macros. CTRL+6 or ALT+6 open the menu instead of launching the macro. All the other key works.

Anyone have a similar problem ?

I'm using wine 1.1.24 but it was the same under 1.1.21.

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How I got FFXI to work again on my computer
by Alan Gindlesperger on Wednesday June 17th 2009, 14:16

For those of you who are having trouble getting FFXI to work at all, you may want to try what I did. Here are the steps I performed (and why I performed them):

1. Starting with a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04, I installed the latest STABLE version of Wine (1.0.1). I used Wineconfig to set it to Windows Vista, since I knew I would to do that eventually. Also, the reason why I chose to start with 1.0.1 is that on some of the newer versions of Wine, I was having problems with InstallShield not installing the program properly. It would start off OK then I would get a dialogue box that said the installation failed. I know from previous experiences that installing the program with 1.0.1 should work (although gameplay will not).

2. Once Wine 1.0.1 was installed, I downloaded the Vista compatible version of the PlayOnline Viewer from the FFXI website. Since I already had Wine set to Windows Vista, it's just easier to leave it that way and use the Vista compatible version of the PlayOnline Viewer.

3. I then installed FFXI. I have the 2007 Vana'Diel collection which doesn't have Wings of the Goddess, but I have that on a seperate CD-ROM. I simply ran the SETUP.EXE files from the INST1, INST2, INST3, and INST4 directories. Then I installed Wings of the Goddess. I just put in the CD-ROM and ran SETUP.EXE (under Wine of course). When I installed Wings of the Goddess, it copied most of the files then I got a popup that said "1627: Installation Failed." I simply ran SETUP.EXE again, and it seemed to pick up where it left off before (after clicking "Next" a few times and "Yes") and installed Wings of the Goddess.

4. I then downloaded Wine 1.1.18 from the WineHQ .deb archive and installed it using GDebi (basically a graphical version of dpkg that comes standard with Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros). I chose 1.1.18 because that seems to be the latest version of Wine that allows the PlayOnline Viewer to update correctly. Most newer versions of Wine will allow the PlayOnline viewer to update, but when it restarts I'll get a message stating that polhook.dll wasn't replaced.

5. I then copied my dxdiagn.dll file from Windows Vista to Wine's System32 directory. The Windows Vista version works fine.

6. I then used Wineconfig to set up pol.exe to use the native version of dxdiagn.dll. There is no need to use regserv anymore.

7. I ran PlayOnline Viewer and as expected, it updated itself, and restarted. Everything went smoothly.

8. I entered by info for my POL account and begain the process of updating FFXI.

10. After that was completed, I exited Final Fantasy and using FFCONFIG I set the resolution to my desired setting.

11. I did the "fbo" tweak to the registry.

12. I launched PlayOnline again, and it worked. I was suprised to get choppy graphics, but I used the old trick of selecting yourself (F1) and pushing enter a few times to increase FPS, and it worked. This was odd because I ususally didn't need to do this with the fbo tweak, but, at least it worked.

I'm debating about whether or not I should upgrade to the latest version of Wine since I just got it working again. I'll probably wait until 1.1.24 and try then. It seems most of the regressions are in versions of Wine after 1.1.18. I know that it seems to very by individual as well, but 1.1.18 seems to be the last "works for just about everyone" version of Wine when it comes to FFXI.

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RE: How I got FFXI to work again on my computer by Alan Gindlesperger on Wednesday June 17th 2009, 14:26

RE: How I got FFXI to work again on my computer by Alan Gindlesperger on Thursday June 18th 2009, 10:31

RE: How I got FFXI to work again on my computer by Cosma on Friday June 19th 2009, 8:06

Spinning character and connection issues
by Kurakuni on Tuesday June 16th 2009, 15:37

So, I'm using Wine 1.1.23 with Ubuntu 9.04 x64. FFXI runs prefect for me, and I have run into only 2 problems so far; besides the flashing shadows and shadow lag, which it seems everyone has. I just turned off shadows, and deal with the flashing shadows in zones.

Ive came across two problems though, seeing if anyone has them or knows a fix. The first is whenever I switch workspaces, when I come back to FFXI, my character will be spinning in a circle until I move the joystick on my Logitech controller. I thought at first this was just a bad config of the controller, so I re-did that, but nothing. Also, when I first log-in, my character will log in spinning until I move the joystick.

My other problem is with my connection. As long as I'm actually playing, it runs fine without any disconnects besides the usual. Yet, if I ever leave it running for bazaaring or just going AFK for a long while, it eventually disconnects. Before you say, yes I have changed to setting in the game for the auto disconnect, but that still didn't fix it. I'm not really sure what the problem is. I'm running DSL if that helps at all.

Besides that, things are going good so far on it :) Been running it under Linux for about 4 weeks now. Thank you for the help.

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RE: Spinning character and connection issues by Cosma on Wednesday June 17th 2009, 1:11

RE: Spinning character and connection issues by Kurakuni on Thursday June 18th 2009, 11:34

RE: Spinning character and connection issues by Cosma on Friday June 19th 2009, 7:58

RE: Spinning character and connection issues by Michael D on Friday June 19th 2009, 8:12

RE: Spinning character and connection issues by Teast on Tuesday August 18th 2009, 6:32

Crashes in Port Jeuno on WINE 1.1.22 and 1.1.23
by Megas of Vecanti on Monday June 8th 2009, 22:09

When attempting to trade with the NPC Squintrox Dryeyes at (G-8) in Port Jeuno, WINE has recently begun to lock up and crash for me. This appears to happen close to 100% of the time when trading from the NPC's West side. (It may still occur when trading from her East side, but not 100% of the time.)
I've also found that logging back into a same or different character with the same client will cause another lockup/crash after several seconds unless the original character is moved to another area with another client.
File check attempted, turns up no errors. I'm running 1.1.23 on Gentoo AMD64. already have a full stack trace to attach to a bug--but before I file one, I'd like to ask other people to attempt to reproduce this crash on their own systems.
Could other people here check this out by trying to trade with Squintrox Dryeyes? Thanks in advance.

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RE: Crashes in Port Jeuno on WINE 1.1.22 and 1.1.23 by Kurakuni on Tuesday June 16th 2009, 15:30

RE: Crashes in Port Jeuno on WINE 1.1.22 and 1.1.23 by Megas of Vecanti on Tuesday June 16th 2009, 18:51

RE: Crashes in Port Jeuno on WINE 1.1.22 and 1.1.23 by Kurakuni on Thursday June 18th 2009, 11:29

Quick Update
by Murasura on Monday June 8th 2009, 18:56

Did a clean install of Fedora, this time using the drivers from the nVidia site itself. They made no difference at all compared to the drivers I used in my previous attempt to get better framerates.

An interesting thing though; While FFXI was running, I turned on the system monitor and noticed that FFXI was causing my CPU to run at 100% at nearly any time... Guaranteed to be at 100% when I was in a more populated area. So perhaps the lag is related to this? Even if it is though... Could there be a fix to it or is my PC just too weak for this? Even so... It still runs better in Windows, so it's not like my computer is incapable of playing this game.

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RE: Quick Update by Pandoraxero on Tuesday June 9th 2009, 12:07

Instalation Issues
by Alan Gindlesperger on Monday June 8th 2009, 17:18

Even though I've sucessfully installed FFXI in the past (as my previous posts will show), I recently had to reformat my HD. I currently dual-boot Windows and Linux. I do have FFXI installed in my Windows partition, but being the nerd that I am, I would prefer to play under Linux. However, I seem to have problems with the installer itself with the recent versions of Wine. It just keeps erring out during install attempts. Wine itself isn't erring out, it's InstallShield. I just keep getting "Installation Failed" errors or I'll get an error with a long number code (I can't recall off the top of my head). Anyone else having similiar problems or any ideas on how to correct this?

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Don't know if anyone else noticed this
by Alan Gindlesperger on Sunday June 7th 2009, 10:04

I was looking through the release notes of Wine 1.1.23 and it looks like "fbo" is now the default setting. Meaning that those who are new FFXI under Wine no longer have to do that tweak to stop the playonline viewer from flipping and increase fps during normal gameplay.

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RE: Don't know if anyone else noticed this by Juan Centeno on Sunday June 7th 2009, 12:30

RE: Don't know if anyone else noticed this by Obed Vetter on Sunday June 7th 2009, 14:03

RE: Don't know if anyone else noticed this by Juan Centeno on Sunday June 7th 2009, 14:37

RE: Don't know if anyone else noticed this by Alan Gindlesperger on Sunday June 7th 2009, 18:06

RE: Don't know if anyone else noticed this by Juan Centeno on Monday June 8th 2009, 0:29

going back to 1.1.22 by Juan Centeno on Monday June 8th 2009, 1:34

RE: going back to 1.1.22 by Alan Gindlesperger on Tuesday June 9th 2009, 7:41

RE: going back to 1.1.22 by Juan Centeno on Wednesday June 10th 2009, 12:13

Pol wont launch with 1.1.23 by JD on Thursday June 11th 2009, 10:53

RE: Pol wont launch with 1.1.23 by JD on Thursday June 11th 2009, 11:27

RE: Pol wont launch with 1.1.23 by Juan Centeno on Saturday June 13th 2009, 13:16

RE: Pol wont launch with 1.1.23 by JD on Wednesday June 17th 2009, 4:34

Slower Framerate compared to Windows
by Murasura on Monday June 1st 2009, 9:01

I run a dual boot system between Fedora 10 and Windows XP, so the hardware is the same for both installations. I've been experiencing slower framerates in Linux compared to Windows, which vary depending on where I am. As one would expect, I get slower framerates in higher populated areas, and perfect framerates in places like my Mog House.

Why I bother to post this is because there's such a huge difference between Windows and Linux, and as I read on this page, many people get -better- results in Linux when compared to Windows. And so, I was hoping someone may have a solution, or at least an answer as to why this is.

My computer hardware isn't the best in the world but it manages to run FFXI perfectly with no slowdown at any point in Windows. It is:

AMD Athlon 3200+
GeForce 9500GT 512 MB
1 GB of RAM
Running Wine 1.1.22

So any ideas? Is it just my hardware? Could it be Fedora somehow (I notice most people here use Ubuntu)? Or perhaps there's something slowing down my system that I should be looking for? Any insight or answers would be appreciated.

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RE: Slower Framerate compared to Windows by Michael D on Monday June 1st 2009, 14:16

RE: Slower Framerate compared to Windows by Murasura on Monday June 1st 2009, 18:42

RE: Slower Framerate compared to Windows by Alan Gindlesperger on Monday June 1st 2009, 18:58

RE: Slower Framerate compared to Windows by Michael D on Tuesday June 2nd 2009, 15:21

RE: Slower Framerate compared to Windows by Murasura on Tuesday June 2nd 2009, 22:12

RE: Slower Framerate compared to Windows by Leonardo on Wednesday June 3rd 2009, 9:08

RE: Slower Framerate compared to Windows by Murasura on Wednesday June 3rd 2009, 18:23

by Josh on Wednesday May 27th 2009, 22:30

I'm running 64 bit ubuntu intrepid, my wine right now is 1.1.18. And the error happens right at the begining of the install. My video card is part of my amd processor (i had the same setup when I was still using windows, same computer just different op system) It will start the install like a steroetypical install (not even the playonline module) and then about 15% in it will read that message.

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RE: by Michael D on Monday June 1st 2009, 14:18

RE: by Michael D on Tuesday August 11th 2009, 0:37

My full report on installing the original FFXI disk sets in Wine 1.1.22 in Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty x86_64.
by Randy on Wednesday May 27th 2009, 0:52

I have the Final Fantasy Online disk set with Zilart. It contains one Play Online CD, three FFXI CDs, and one Rise of Zilart CD. I also have all the separate CDs for each expansion pack.

I wanted to get it running under the stable Wine 1.0.1 first but could only get Play Online working with the window mode unchecked in it's config program. Everything else in Play Online worked but FFXI would crash the instant it ran.

I tried to download the Vista compatible Play Online setup file from their website. The setup stops when it finishes extracting the MSI file. I tried to run the extracted file but Wine said to run the setup that extracted it. So I did msiexec /i setup.exe and got the error fixme:msi:MSI_OpenDatabaseW open failed r = 80030050 for L"C:\\windows\\temp\\msid7.tmp
Each time I ran that command I would get a different temp file error. Most threads seemed to think it was related to running Wine in root but I never have and haven't used the sudo command. I got this error in both Wine 1.0.1 and 1.1.22

Next I did a clean install of Wine 1.1.22, installed POL, ran and updated POL, ran it again, and got an error bugs.Winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17604 I then copied over dxdiagn and set it up in Wine's config for pol.exe. I left it on it's default load order which is "Native then Builtin" and I didn't register it with the regsrv32 command. I ran POL but the graphics would flip upside-down. From other posts, I found that adding the following key with the regedit command fixes this problem:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
Now POL runs flawlessly.

Next I installed FFXI and all expansion packs.
I had problems with inserting the next disk during the install. First I'd have to insert a CD and click it to open the dolphin file manager, then I had to open the Wine config and go to the drives tab and hit ok to exit, then in console I typed wine d:\setup.exe. If I didn't do any of the previous steps before running the setup then Wine wouldn't recognize the CD. As soon as the insert disk message appeared, I'd have to make sure my dolphin window was closed, then type wine eject d: in a separate console, then insert the next disk, then I'd have to repeat the previous steps I mentioned to get the system and Wine to recognize the CD, then hit retry. If Wine didn't recognize the CD and I hit retry, then the installation would exit and I'd have to start over. After installing the game, I ran pol and started FFXI to download updates. Half a day later(about 11,700 files), I hit ok and FFXI started in full screen mode. Hitting Accept or Decline at license screen would make FFXI go to a black screen so I had to kill it. Next I changed settings in the FFXI config program to my liking, then switched pol.exe to vista mode in Wine config. After that, the game ran almost flawlessly, though my terminal output would show the following:
Probably 1000+ lines of this - fixme:d3d8:Wined3dformat_from_d3dformat Unhandled D3DFORMAT 0x41
I saw 1 line of this - fixme:d3d_surface:surface_load_ds_location No up to date depth stencil location
And about 5 lines of - fixme:d3d8:ValidateVertexShader (0x40de2a0 (nil) (nil) 0 (nil)): stub

Flaws in playing FFXI:
Shadows looked fine but were lag intensive. When turning on Bump Mapping in FFXI's config program, the shadows lagged a lot less but they flickered when moving the camera. In some areas(like windurst woods chocobo stables), the shadows didn't flicker. Shadows for characters can be turned off but they still appear at some doorways.
The game crashes for me when selecting multiple players using the 0 key when they are at the same coordinates(like a home point or after entering an arena).
Minimizing the Wine window seems to close out of the game instantaneously unless in a virtual desktop.
I had a problem at one time in the previous Wine version with POL going out of the Wine window so the Wine window was mostly black. When I moved the Wine window, the POL window would move inside it. I fixed this buy turning off "Allow windows manager to decorate windows" in Wine config, ran pol, maximized it, then made it small again, and it was back to normal. I might have caused this problem by changing settings in KDE for my FFXI window which is actually the POL window too.

I originally had FFXI installed on my Windows XP PC. I could also get FFXI working by copying over the directory and searching the registry for related keys. I don't know what ones are needed specifically but there are quite a few and I needed more than just the main key listed in Software. I still needed the extra configuration for the direct 3D reg key, dxdiagn, and vista mode. Computer Specs: Intel Core i7 2.66, 6GB ram, EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216.

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Qu'Bai Arena Lag by Randy on Sunday May 31st 2009, 22:54

Install Issue
by A. Vivian on Friday May 15th 2009, 15:59

I played this a few years ago and after much buggering a friend has talked me into playing it again. Playonline installed fine, but unluckily I have the old box set of FFXI with the independently packaged CD's rather than one DVD. The install of the game itself would not allow me to "switch" cds saying that the drive was in use.

No problem there; I didn't have Art Urghan or Wings of a Goddess expansion packs so I opted to buy the Vana'diel Collection '08 DVD instead. The problem is that even though I went through Wines uninstall process PlayOnline didn't actually remove itself. I need a way to remove PlayOnline and all associated registry keys without deleting my entire .wine folder.

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RE: Install Issue by Zachary Tahenakos on Saturday May 16th 2009, 21:50

Installer hangs after finishing INST1 setup
by Dereck Wonnacott on Friday May 15th 2009, 0:17

PlayOnline installs fine, and then I proceed to the next step and install INST1 and everything seems fine until the end. the progress box goes away and the screen just hangs with the background still on the screen. I have left it for a good 10 minutes or more and it will not finish. My CPU is stuck at 100% during this time.

wine 1.1.21 from wineHQ repo. Ubuntu 9.04 w/ all updates.

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RE: Installer hangs after finishing INST1 setup by Dereck Wonnacott on Friday May 15th 2009, 9:42

RE: Installer hangs after finishing INST1 setup by dUc0N on Thursday May 21st 2009, 18:03

made the switch to 9.04, not i cant play...
by gregtron on Friday May 8th 2009, 16:56

I ad everything running fine before, and I upgraded to 9.04, now pol runs fine but right when i get to the ffxi front page and click play it freezes at the white screen right before it goes fullscreen. anyone help?

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RE: made the switch to 9.04, not i cant play... by gregtron on Sunday May 10th 2009, 21:26

RE: made the switch to 9.04, not i cant play... by Michael D on Wednesday May 13th 2009, 23:08

RE: made the switch to 9.04, not i cant play... by Zachary Tahenakos on Wednesday May 13th 2009, 23:38

RE: made the switch to 9.04, not i cant play... by gregtron on Friday May 15th 2009, 16:40

RE: made the switch to 9.04, not i cant play... by Zachary Tahenakos on Saturday May 16th 2009, 21:49

RE: made the switch to 9.04, not i cant play... by gregtron on Monday May 18th 2009, 9:40

RE: made the switch to 9.04, not i cant play... by Michael D on Monday May 18th 2009, 16:00

RE: made the switch to 9.04, not i cant play... by Zachary Tahenakos on Wednesday May 20th 2009, 17:25

RE: made the switch to 9.04, not i cant play... by Michael D on Monday May 18th 2009, 16:06

Issues after initial install of POL viewer
by Torrence on Tuesday May 5th 2009, 9:52

I am having a problem that I can't seem to find documented anywhere. I am running Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10, and started out with version 1.20 of WINE, but have had the same issue no matter what the version.

The Viewer will install properly, and it will update, but when it tries to restart itself it throws an error that it was unable to rename the temporary files (the new exe it downloads during the update) and then it will close. The odd thing is, is that when I look at the directory in the virtual installation, the files are in fact renamed and there are no residual .tmp files.

However, when I try to launch the program again, it is only a black screen and the same music that is played as if it still needs an update. Dragging any window across that one results in visual cascading as if it were out of memory or something. I have to force the close.

It doesn't matter which emulation I set it to or which DLL I copy and register (XP or Vista), I am getting this same behavior. I have tried uninstalling the version .20 and deleting the virtual installation, and then installing older versions of WINE, both .19 and .18, and I still am having this same issue.

Now, I am pretty new to Linux and even newer to WINE, so if there is any information I can provide that would help diagnose this issue please let me know. I'm at my wits end here and this is the last application that I need to get working on my main machine. If I cannot get it to work I won't have a choice but to go back to Windows. That would be a very sad day. As far as my hardware is concerned, it's a pretty basic box - Athlon processor @2.4, 2GB RAM, Nvidia 7200 GeForce. I have the proprietary Nvidia drivers installed, and they appear to be working fine in other games such as WoW.

I am using the Vana'Diel collection 2008 to install, the same one that seems to have been used in the testing above, so I don't know why it is not working for me. It has to be something that I am missing that is specific to my installation process. Any thoughts on how I could get this working?

Also a general question - there are a couple comments that "controller works perfectly", but no mention of WHAT controller. Probably not the forum for that question, but if anyone can point me in the direction of what controllers will work well with a linux configuration of this game I would appreciate it.

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RE: Issues after initial install of POL viewer by Alan Gindlesperger on Thursday May 7th 2009, 19:58

RE: Issues after initial install of POL viewer by Torrence on Friday May 8th 2009, 11:00

RE: Issues after initial install of POL viewer by Torrence on Friday May 15th 2009, 14:17

Ok, it's not working for me
by Josh on Sunday May 3rd 2009, 16:21

AM I missing anything? I have the 2007 vana'diel collection disk and it just isn't installing. I am not sure if I already posted or not. It just doesn't want to install. I have it with wings of the goddess too as a seperate disk. I miss my ffxi, and I would love to get back on, someone please help.

Oh, and I am running the 64 bit version of ubuntu intrepid to by the way.

Thanks ahead of time.

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RE: Ok, it's not working for me by Josh on Sunday May 3rd 2009, 16:25

RE: Ok, it's not working for me by Alan Gindlesperger on Thursday May 7th 2009, 19:57

RE: Ok, it's not working for me by Josh on Thursday May 7th 2009, 22:56

Graphis Problems
by Omar on Tuesday April 28th 2009, 9:23

I recently did a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 and Wine 1.1.20.
Followed all the instructions on this guide and on wineffxi.org.

Currently my POL.exe is set to windows xp because I copied dxdiagn from windows xp.

Install and updates ran fine. I chose windowed mode and changed my registry so that my background and foreground graphics were equal (960x600).

POL does give me the flipping of screen sometimes but not a big problem. But when I start the game it gives me garbled text for the disclaimer and slow and looks like this screen shot that was previously posted ( appdb.winehq.org/appimage.php?iId=20487).

Am I missing a step? Manually isntall DX9? And I was reading this winetricks thing, what is it exactly? Thanks.

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RE: Graphis Problems by Omar on Tuesday April 28th 2009, 9:24

RE: Graphis Problems by Obed Vetter on Tuesday April 28th 2009, 12:59

RE: Graphis Problems by Omar on Tuesday April 28th 2009, 19:06

RE: Graphis Problems by Omar on Tuesday April 28th 2009, 19:25

RE: Graphis Problems by Alan Gindlesperger on Tuesday April 28th 2009, 19:37

RE: Graphis Problems by Omar on Tuesday April 28th 2009, 20:02

RE: Graphis Problems by Omar on Wednesday April 29th 2009, 9:09

RE: Graphis Problems by Alan Gindlesperger on Wednesday April 29th 2009, 13:52

RE: Graphis Problems by Omar on Thursday April 30th 2009, 9:25

RE: Graphis Problems by Terry on Thursday April 30th 2009, 18:59

RE: Graphis Problems by Omar on Friday May 1st 2009, 1:26

RE: Graphis Problems by Alan Gindlesperger on Saturday May 2nd 2009, 16:11

RE: Graphics Problems by Omar on Monday May 4th 2009, 10:47

RE: Graphics Problems by HPL on Monday May 4th 2009, 20:12

RE: Graphics Problems by Omar on Tuesday May 5th 2009, 11:28

RE: Graphics Problems by Robin on Thursday May 7th 2009, 14:08

RE: Graphics Problems by Alan Gindlesperger on Thursday May 7th 2009, 20:02

Controller and Window focus
by Terry on Monday April 27th 2009, 18:54

Hi, I recently upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 (where none of the issuses mentioned below happened) to Kubuntu 9.10 and got everything to work just fine (my wine install sits on another partition so it wasn't touched) except when I tab into say firefox, then back into FFXI, my game controller won't respond for a second, then it freaks out until I force my character to stop moving.

Now I'm not sure if it's something in Kubuntu or Wine 1.1.20, but was wondering if anyone ran into this. Seems to be strictly a gamepad thing.Also when I quit FFXI I get POL crashing on close.. that's minor but thought I'd mention it.

Neither happened before upgrading (why oh why did I do that!)

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RE: Controller and Window focus by Terry on Monday April 27th 2009, 21:20

RE: Controller and Window focus by Obed Vetter on Tuesday April 28th 2009, 13:01

Crash on exit, character lagging...
by gregtron on Saturday April 25th 2009, 15:28

Everytime I try and logout of the game, it always crashes and I have to restart my computer. Has anyone else had this problem?

I also was wondering if there was away to alt+tab to switch applications while it was running, I have heard of something called a windower, does this app run on wine also?

another big annoyance is it seems every second or so I get a lag on my frames(i think). I havent tried adding that line to my user.reg file because I cant find it in the registry or c:/ drive, someone please help!!

Im on wine 1.1.9

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RE: Crash on exit, character lagging... by Alan Gindlesperger on Saturday April 25th 2009, 16:17

RE: Crash on exit, character lagging... by gregtron on Saturday April 25th 2009, 16:49

RE: Crash on exit, character lagging... by David on Saturday April 25th 2009, 18:34

Blank screen after choosing character
by Esteban on Thursday April 23rd 2009, 12:36

Hi, i'm getting probs with this, when i enter to choose character part the graphics look slow and after it began logging into the game, it put on blank screen and then it close, resolution 640x480 and have a PNY Geforce 6200 video card, using wine version 1.1.19, any idea what should be my prob?

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RE: Blank screen after choosing character by Alan Gindlesperger on Thursday April 23rd 2009, 23:08

RE: Blank screen after choosing character by Esteban on Friday April 24th 2009, 8:53

RE: Blank screen after choosing character by Alan Gindlesperger on Friday April 24th 2009, 13:09

RE: Blank screen after choosing character by dUc0N on Monday May 25th 2009, 19:33

No window borders/runs in fullscreen mode constantly
by David on Sunday April 19th 2009, 10:12

Another little hiccup I noticed with 1.1.19. Now FFXI runs in fullscreen mode by default, and I can't get it out. It's behaving more like it's on a native windows machine now. This wouldn't be a problem except that I have 2 displays and FFXI opens on the wrong one every time, whereas before, I could move the window the to display I wanted it on then kick it up to fullscreen. Heh. If nothing else, I'll try the windower.

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RE: No window borders/runs in fullscreen mode constantly by David on Sunday April 19th 2009, 10:41

Game won't exit in 1.1.19
by Alan Gindlesperger on Thursday April 16th 2009, 19:46

I was wondering if anyone else had the same problem (or any ideas on how to fix this). Under 1.1.18 I had no problems running FFXI, however, after the update to 1.1.19, I can log in to the game and play normally (the important part), but I can't exit the game. If I do a /shutdown or a /logout then select "back" at the FFXI title screen, I just get a black screen (if I'm playing in fullscreen mode) or a black window if I'm playing in windowed mode.

Since the game works, I'm not too worried about it, but still, it would be nice if I didn't have to manually kill the game every time I want to quit.

Any ideas?

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Amazing!
by Alan Gindlesperger on Saturday April 11th 2009, 9:02

This is actually a reply to Cosma's post under the Getting FFXI to Run Under True Fullscreen Mode thread, however, because the info is so useful, I decided to start a new thread. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think more people will read this if it's a new thread instead of a reply, and I think the information will help a lot of people who are frustrated with getting FFXI to run under Gnu/Linux.

Cosma's suggestion of adding the line "OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo" to the user.reg file makes a huge difference. I tried it (I didn't edit the file manually, I used regedit and inserted it that way... more detail below)

It does exactly what Cosma says, it stops the flipping of pol viewer, and it fixes the issue with the black bar at the bottom of the screen when you use two different resolution settings in FFconfig.

Not only that, but the increase in FPS is amazing, I was able to turn shadow effects ON, and still play the game with no virtually noticeable decrease in FPS.

Now, you can do what Cosma does and add the line to the User.reg file, or you can type "regedit" in the terminal/konsole (whatever you use) and under HKEY_CURRENT_USER expand SOFTWARE, then WINE. Look for a key called Direct3D and expand that. If it's not already there, create it. In Direct3D create a registry entry called "OffscreenRenderingMode" and set it's value to "fbo"

If this was part of the HOWTWO, I think this came would move up to gold status, as it really takes the gameplay up to near the native Windows level (at least on my machine it did).

Thank you, Cosma.

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RE: Amazing! by JD on Thursday April 16th 2009, 1:05

RE: Amazing! by Alan Gindlesperger on Thursday April 16th 2009, 19:11

RE: Amazing! by JD on Thursday April 16th 2009, 19:52

RE: Amazing! by Alan Gindlesperger on Saturday April 18th 2009, 12:46

RE: Amazing! by JD on Tuesday May 5th 2009, 10:34

RE: Amazing! by David on Thursday April 16th 2009, 15:03

RE: Amazing! by Lestou on Thursday April 16th 2009, 15:35

RE: Amazing! by Alan Gindlesperger on Thursday April 16th 2009, 19:14

RE: Amazing! by Tripnotic@asura on Monday April 20th 2009, 2:33

Can I run FFXI in true fullscreen?
by David on Saturday April 4th 2009, 23:37

I'm new to Wine, but by no means new to FFXI or Linux.

I've gotten everything tweaked and working fine, but I only have one question... Is there a way to actually run FFXI in true fullscreen, or am I stuck viewing Vana'diel in a window?

Thanks for any info.

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RE: Can I run FFXI in true fullscreen? by HPL on Sunday April 5th 2009, 19:49

RE: Can I run FFXI in true fullscreen? by David on Wednesday April 8th 2009, 18:06

RE: Can I run FFXI in true fullscreen? by David on Wednesday April 8th 2009, 18:21

RE: Can I run FFXI in true fullscreen? by Cosma on Friday April 10th 2009, 7:12

Ok, it's not working for me
by Josh on Saturday March 28th 2009, 13:23

I am trying, but it isn't working. I keep getting the error saying that it can't install the driver needed. GRRRRR!!!!! I really am on a ffxi withdraw too! Someone help!.

I figured that maybe since I had the 2007 disc maybe that was the problem? I saw that the thing up there is for 2008 collection. arg, maybe I am just drawing straws now!

But anyways, can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong!

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RE: Ok, it's not working for me by Tripnotic@asura on Monday March 30th 2009, 7:12

RE: Ok, it's not working for me by Josh on Sunday May 3rd 2009, 16:25

Playonline Works!
by Brandon on Thursday March 26th 2009, 7:42

Yay! Playonline works fine now except I can't see any text. Is that because I need to load a specific font so I can see what I'm doing? I am inching closer to success.

Thanks again!
-Brandon

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RE: Playonline Works! by Anderson Fernandes de Alencar on Friday March 27th 2009, 18:09

RE: Playonline Works! (Solved!) by Anderson Fernandes de Alencar on Monday March 30th 2009, 19:30

RE: Playonline Works! by Dereck Wonnacott on Sunday April 26th 2009, 9:01

Black Screen POL
by Brandon on Wednesday March 25th 2009, 19:49

I know this has probably been asked, but everything installed fine but whenever I launch the Playonline Viewer, I get a black screen or funky graphics. But the music plays fine. I am using the same card I used in Windows. I have also tried configuring Wine as best I can to know avail. Anyone else been able to work around this? Thanks!

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Vanadiel 2007
by Brandon on Wednesday March 25th 2009, 13:40

Will this How-To work with Vanadiel Collection 2007? I have that and a separate installation of Wings of the Goddess. Going to be using Ubuntu Linux 8.10 and the latest version of Wine.

Thanks!

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RE: Vanadiel 2007 by Woufi on Wednesday March 25th 2009, 14:42

by michel on Wednesday March 18th 2009, 20:16

lol so all the login problems we had with 4 versions from wine is only because we needed to change pol to windows vista, a simple solution for a big problem

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How to get it to work as of 1.1.17
by Val on Tuesday March 17th 2009, 20:38

Set the POL viewer to use Windows Vista, this has an added effect of increasing your framerate at the login screen. When in game set the clipping plane to the lowest setting, turn shadows off and set it to show the minimal amount of characters.

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RE: How to get it to work as of 1.1.17 by Tripnotic@asura on Wednesday March 18th 2009, 11:51

RE: How to get it to work as of 1.1.17 by Woufi on Wednesday March 25th 2009, 5:02

wine 1.1.17
by Tripnotic@asura on Sunday March 15th 2009, 14:09

Still black screen after character selection.

Used wine1.1.17 from source + sanity patch.
Debian lenny based
KDE 4.2

Back to wine 1.1.13 to play.

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Bug 17604
by Val on Saturday March 7th 2009, 15:43

Could one of you with wine-debug and wine-devel run "WINEDEBUG=+dxdiag wine pol.exe &> ~/dxdiag_log.txt" from the POL directory and post the contents of the dxdiag_log in a reply? I'm unable to do this from my machine.

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The recent crashes
by Val on Monday March 2nd 2009, 22:46

Don't quote me on this but I believe our newest problem (FFXI crashes/can't login) arises from IMM errors (component unknown). I think we need to try out WINE with the nabble sanity patch again and see if we get anywhere. (Hint Hint)

Any takers?

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RE: The recent crashes by Tripnotic@asura on Tuesday March 3rd 2009, 2:57

RE: The recent crashes by Val on Tuesday March 3rd 2009, 7:37

Wine 1.1.15 with patch
by Wayne Cameron on Thursday February 26th 2009, 3:47

Hello i am lookng for a pre-compiled version of the wine 1.1.15 with the sanity patch. If someone can point me in the right direction I would be able to test ffxi on my laptop. thank you very much

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1.1.15 has made keyboard glitchy
by Jaz on Saturday February 21st 2009, 11:01

Updated to 1.1.15, having had the game running fine in 1.1.14. Had to reapply the imm sanity patch to get into the game.

Once in, I had issues with the keyboard, it was just being really glitchy - macro bar already open when I log in and not going on pressing esc, numpad keys not working for movement, menu spazzing out etc.

Logging out and back in fixed some of these, but I can't type in game at all (not a problem for BST, but can't talk to LS or ask other BSTs to team up lol - also means I can't /shutdown or emote etc). So something seems to have broken with the new version.

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RE: 1.1.15 has made keyboard glitchy by michel on Saturday February 21st 2009, 14:33

Black Screen in POL
by Bug on Thursday February 19th 2009, 16:10

When I WINE POL it open normally, but there is no picture. The screen is black, but the POL music is playing like normal.

If I turn off windowed mod in polconfig, I can see it like normal.
this was in Wine 1.0.1. (Ubuntu 8.10)

I tried to install in # Wine 1.1.13 i386. and POL works. (haven't tested ffxi yet).

I'm new using WINE and a bit confused about what version of WINE I should use.

Is 1.1.13 newer then the 'Latest stable release Wine 1.0.1.'?

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RE: Black Screen in POL by michel on Saturday February 21st 2009, 14:34

Broken
by Adam on Wednesday February 18th 2009, 22:04

Update to 1.1.15 broke FFXI. Playonline opens but after attempting to log into the game server, it freezes.

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RE: Broken by michel on Thursday February 19th 2009, 13:34

RE: Broken by Barry Barrette on Saturday February 21st 2009, 17:01

Very Low Frame Rate and Keyboard sometimes glitches
by Zachary Tahenakos on Thursday February 12th 2009, 23:30

After some tweaking and what not.. I FINALLY got FFXI to install.. here are my System Specs:
Intel Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz Proc
2GB Ram
Nvidia Geforce 6200 OC Card (Using NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29 Driver)

Heres my problems.. first off.. Final Fantasy is VERY slow in terms of Frame Rate.. to put it bluntly my character looks like the old school Cactuars when running.. The bottom 1/3 of my screen is a big black box. And finally I notice sometimes my controls from keyboard goof.. like im typing.. lets say in LS.. and if I type "s" it changes from /linkshell to /say.. kind of annoying. What are the optimal Settings for FFXI to work? Im doing this on a dummy rig before I port it to my Macbook. Im using Wine 1.1.14

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ffxi gives black screen after selecting character
by scott on Friday February 6th 2009, 4:09

ok so I have gotten ffxi to go all the way to selecting my character but after that it just shows a black screen. I have turned off the sound in POL and ffxi config. I also have ffxi starting in windowed mode. then I have set it to 640 x 480. still does nothing to help. some1 please assist me. I'm so close to having it run. btw Im using wine 1.1.14.

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RE: ffxi gives black screen after selecting character by Christopher Strom on Friday February 6th 2009, 10:49

RE: ffxi gives black screen after selecting character by scott on Friday February 6th 2009, 15:51

RE: ffxi gives black screen after selecting character by scott on Friday February 6th 2009, 16:09

RE: ffxi gives black screen after selecting character by scott on Saturday February 7th 2009, 2:08

RE: ffxi gives black screen after selecting character by Tripnotic@asura on Tuesday February 10th 2009, 13:49

i have modded dats
by Christopher Strom on Thursday February 5th 2009, 16:28

www.gmronline.com/mik/ffxi-ui-0.10-big.jpg

can get from the dats and the backup dats here

Called FFXI Style -

i am 110% sure i have 1.1.14 working with ffxi just perfectly
trying to cut down on what i have differnt then others

this dat package changes the cursor and border to a more visual friendly one
maybe has a effect on why it not working for everyone else

emikoffxi.livejournal.com/

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RE: i have modded dats by michel on Thursday February 5th 2009, 17:17

RE: i have modded dats by Christopher Strom on Thursday February 5th 2009, 18:02

RE: i have modded dats by michel on Thursday February 5th 2009, 19:23

RE: i have modded dats by Christopher Strom on Thursday February 5th 2009, 21:03

RE: i have modded dats by Wyatt on Wednesday February 11th 2009, 10:18

FFXI not running after Update
by Martin Junginger on Sunday February 1st 2009, 5:16

I updated from Wine 1.1.13 to 1.1.14 and I'm no longer able to play.
Playonline Viewer is working ok. Switch to FFXI works, but after click on "Agree" on the first screen, the window turns black and stays this way (ended the test after 10 mins)

Using Ubuntu 8.10 on Centrino Duo and Nvidia Graphic card.

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RE: FFXI not running after Update by Terry on Monday February 2nd 2009, 22:40

wine 1.1.14 is really bad
by michel on Friday January 30th 2009, 15:56

i installed wine 1.1.14 today and i cannot get into FFXI anymore, when i come in playonline and click on play the game freezes and thats all and i need to close wine, i tryed it 4 times or so but still freezes when i click play, so there is now a new problem that put FFXI back to garbage.
i use ati btw i dont now of nvidia users got the same problem, i tryed with compiz on and off but still the same and with compiz turned on i get somtimes a black screen in playonline

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RE: wine 1.1.14 is really bad by Leonardo on Sunday February 1st 2009, 0:20

Gamepad
by Leonardo on Wednesday January 28th 2009, 5:46

My gamepad worked out of the box and in the first try (after configuring the game to use it of course), i have OpenSuSE 11.1 and i installed the game under wine 1.1.12 (now have 1.1.13 without reinstall or problems).

My gamepad is a Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2 and the only thing that didnt work is the force feedback.

And i just dont know why this game is still Silver. I have tried Gold games that looks horrible in comparisson to this one. I have been playing FFXI on wine since 2 weeks and the graphical bugs are almost none (very few instances like summoning an earth elemental and changing day and night for like 2 seconds) and the frame rate is almost the same as windows.

Only hack i did was the dll thing to make it work and thats it, the game install, do their update and was in game almost like in windows with the lag issue in the begining, but seriously is not that bad, Ctrl+t and it is gone. You can play for hours and dont see that lag again.

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Windower
by Stuart on Thursday January 22nd 2009, 6:52

If I can get FFXI to run how I would like in Wine then I think Linux will have a new convert! :) Has anyone tried to use Windower with FFXI in Wine with any success? (I have all my macros in that format)

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by Jari Vetoniemi on Tuesday January 20th 2009, 3:00

OK! It seems i found the solution, Changing hostname using "sudo hostname localhost" seems to work =)
You need to always change this when booting computer, heck you could even do script for FFXI which changes it when you execute it and when you end it it changes it to back if needed.

This is in ubuntu btw =)

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by Jari Vetoniemi on Monday January 19th 2009, 9:10

Weird, ima getting error when pressing accept button "Error with connecting to lobby server" or something like that Error number was 3101 ive tried Square support but nothing.. Ive tried to add 127.0.0.1 localhost to hosts file but no luck..

I wonder what is this. I dint get this when i had that crappy ati card.

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RE: by Christopher Strom on Monday January 19th 2009, 9:30

RE: by Jari Vetoniemi on Monday January 19th 2009, 9:35

RE: by Christopher Strom on Monday January 19th 2009, 10:36

RE: by michel on Monday January 19th 2009, 18:49

RE: by Jari Vetoniemi on Tuesday January 20th 2009, 2:58

RE: by Barry Barrette on Wednesday May 27th 2009, 10:43

A few odd items and a thought
by Val on Sunday January 18th 2009, 1:42

Amongst my latest test I found a few interesting items. The first was the graphics. I don't know how but FFXI looks crisper in WINE than a real windows install, not to mention faster loading. The POL viewer doesn't crash when I try to access my mail in WINE.

Again I don't know what it is, but some windows apps are running better in WINE the windows. This also applies for other apps I maintain.

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ASUS M3N78-VM / NVIDIA 8200 Chipset
by Adam on Friday January 9th 2009, 4:04

I can confirm that FFXI works wonderfully on an ASUS M3N78-VM. Im running 4 GB of RAM, 512 MB to the on board NVIDIA graphics chip on Ubuntu 32 bit.

Aside from some slight flickering, the games runs as fast as it does in Windows XP. Some things (such as the loading of character models) actually seems faster. In heavily populated areas, characters are shown almost immediately. The settings are exactly the same as the Windows install (I copied the game to .wine).

Also, for those of you who may have trouble getting past the install process, heres a tip. I could NOT for the life of me get past the FFXI update process. PlayOnline update went smoothly, but the game upgrade kept exiting with errors unexpectedly at various points (from 3% to 17%).

To get around this so that you can test settings, just copy the contents of C:\Program Files\PlayOnline\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI with a recently updated version of the game over to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/PlayOnline/SquareEnix/FINAL FANTASY XI AFTER you have installed PlayOnline and gone through initial game and expansion set ups.

I found that after doing that I was able to get on and play despite the fact that the update process kept failing. Even when I used the same settings.

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RE: ASUS M3N78-VM / NVIDIA 8200 Chipset by Val on Friday January 9th 2009, 17:46

RE: ASUS M3N78-VM / NVIDIA 8200 Chipset by michel on Saturday January 10th 2009, 13:42

RE: ASUS M3N78-VM / NVIDIA 8200 Chipset by Adam on Tuesday January 13th 2009, 21:02

RE: ASUS M3N78-VM / NVIDIA 8200 Chipset by Adam on Tuesday January 13th 2009, 21:15

RE: ASUS M3N78-VM / NVIDIA 8200 Chipset by Leonardo on Wednesday January 28th 2009, 5:34

Just a note...
by Glen Patras on Tuesday December 23rd 2008, 7:23

Hi!

Thought I'd add to the comments here that if you use winetricks and install directx with it the intro movie will play!

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RE: Just a note... by Glen Patras on Tuesday December 23rd 2008, 7:31

wierd graphics issue
by Cory Reed on Wednesday December 17th 2008, 19:36

ok, so i got the game installed, updated, and everything, i can get into the game, but first off i get no sound at all, secondly i can only see the top left hand corner of the world, chat log and hp/mp bar are still visible, game seems to run fine, cept those 2 things, any suggestions?

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RE: wierd graphics issue by Barry Barrette on Wednesday December 17th 2008, 19:40

RE: wierd graphics issue by Cory Reed on Wednesday December 17th 2008, 19:48

RE: wierd graphics issue by Barry Barrette on Wednesday December 17th 2008, 19:53

RE: wierd graphics issue by Cory Reed on Wednesday December 17th 2008, 19:57

RE: wierd graphics issue by Barry Barrette on Wednesday December 17th 2008, 20:02

RE: wierd graphics issue by Cory Reed on Wednesday December 17th 2008, 20:07

Cannot get the game to display after starting
by Shaun on Saturday December 13th 2008, 21:14

I did everything and I can get into the game as far as where it asks you to accept the conditions, but after that when it goes to take me to the main FFXI screen, it has the sounds but no display whatsoever. I am running the latest wine on Ubuntu 8.10 with a HD3850 ATI video card.

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RE: Cannot get the game to display after starting by michel on Sunday December 14th 2008, 6:31

RE: Cannot get the game to display after starting by Shaun on Friday December 19th 2008, 7:36

RE: Cannot get the game to display after starting by michel on Wednesday December 24th 2008, 17:53

Framerate is low
by Jack Diaz on Sunday November 30th 2008, 22:54

Anyone know how to increase frame? I've tried F1+enter+enter but doesn't work, tried the res and overlay but that didn't change anything :( another thing does anyone know why I can't see my mouse cursor?

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RE: Framerate is low by michel on Monday December 1st 2008, 8:01

RE: Framerate is low by Jack Diaz on Monday December 1st 2008, 12:01

RE: Framerate is low by Jack Diaz on Monday December 1st 2008, 18:39

RE: Framerate is low by michel on Tuesday December 2nd 2008, 8:47

RE: Framerate is low by Jack Diaz on Tuesday December 2nd 2008, 13:37

RE: Framerate is low by michel on Tuesday December 2nd 2008, 13:48

RE: Framerate is low by Jack Diaz on Tuesday December 2nd 2008, 14:43

RE: Framerate is low by Jack Diaz on Tuesday December 2nd 2008, 21:52

RE: Framerate is low by Jack Diaz on Tuesday December 2nd 2008, 22:59

question
by michel on Friday November 21st 2008, 19:00

can someone make a wine 1.1.9 with the patch please, then i can test that, wine 1.1.9 without patch is still bad

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RE: question by Jari Vetoniemi on Monday November 24th 2008, 0:41

RE: question by Val on Monday November 24th 2008, 1:31

RE: question by michel on Monday November 24th 2008, 15:48

RE: question by Tripnotic@asura on Friday November 28th 2008, 13:14

keyboard
by michel on Monday November 17th 2008, 18:14

i heard many people got problems with there keyboard i window mode but i want to say in full screen all the keys works, but the mouse is doing weard then (see my post below) and in window mode its the other way around lol, mouse works and keyboard not, if we find the difference about then we can fix these problems to

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RE: keyboard by michel on Sunday November 23rd 2008, 20:06

RE: keyboard by Alan Gindlesperger on Tuesday November 25th 2008, 8:18

mouse cursor
by michel on Monday November 17th 2008, 18:04

i found a problem that i did not find here yet, you now for using the mouse in FFXI, you need to enable hardware cursor in FFXI config in windowed mode that works good, but in full screen mode the cursor from the mouse is always going automatic to above the screen, i cannot cancel it and when i move the mouse cursor down, hes going again, sombody nows how to stop that? oh yeah i dont want to play in windowed screen because mine screen is flikkering like hell, i heard its because of ati cards and im using ati 8.11 drivers so.

my system is ubuntu 8.10 64bit
amd athlon xp 2400
3gb ram
and ati 3780 card

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RE: mouse cursor by michel on Monday November 17th 2008, 18:11

RE: mouse cursor by michel on Tuesday November 25th 2008, 7:15

problems, problems...
by Bri on Monday November 17th 2008, 14:12

I can get the game running, but the F1 thing does nothing to help me. Frame rates are still slow as leaded glass and my keys don't work. Any other ideas?

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system froze
by Esteban on Sunday November 16th 2008, 22:06

i follow all the steps, install all but when i'm downloading FFXI updates the system froze and i have to reset my computer.
PC specifications:
1 GB Ram card
Nvidia 6200 video card
2,99 Pentium 4 procesor

any idea what could be causing the problem?

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RE:
by Benjamin James on Saturday November 15th 2008, 0:21

I got pol to work, am updating atm. Installing 1.1.7 made it start working exactly as described... 1.1.8 freezes all of Ubuntu when attempting to load the viewer. and 1.1.5 would up giving me a wide variety of errors that seemed to randomly duplicate.

Updating right now. seems to be fine.

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RE: by Matt on Saturday November 15th 2008, 8:52

RE: by Benjamin James on Saturday November 15th 2008, 11:20

RE: by Benjamin James on Sunday November 16th 2008, 0:24

RE: by Terry on Sunday November 16th 2008, 18:04

RE: by Benjamin James on Wednesday November 19th 2008, 23:45

RE: by Terry on Thursday November 20th 2008, 18:24

Odd input related bug
by Terry on Wednesday November 12th 2008, 17:40

I've been inputing new macros in the game, and what I noticed is when I "cancel" out of a text field, regardless of method it seems, the game slows to a crawl, like 1fps. However by hitting Ctrl L or Ctrl R to chat or re-entering any text field the game speeds right back up instantly. It actually reminds me of the login process when you first sign in to FFXI.

To recreate go in and edit a macro text field, type something in, and exit.

For me it happens every time, anyone else having this?

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RE: Odd input related bug by Terry on Wednesday November 12th 2008, 17:42

RE: Odd input related bug by Sean Davis on Thursday November 13th 2008, 14:59

Resolution Issue
by A. Vivian on Wednesday November 5th 2008, 16:26

Okay, I've stumbled across a new issue. The resolution is stuck at 640 x 480 no matter what I do. When I got into regedit and change it (as the guide says) it does nothing to resize the window, but rather just makes it to where it all can't fit into the screen. Manually resizing the window doesn't help (the "new" area just shows whatever is in the background). Any idea what's going on?

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RE: Resolution Issue by Terry on Friday November 7th 2008, 17:53

RE: Resolution Issue by Val on Saturday November 8th 2008, 1:19

by A. Vivian on Tuesday November 4th 2008, 11:03

Okay, holding down ctrl works. Thanks for the help. Any idea why the game does this though?

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Key issue
by A. Vivian on Monday November 3rd 2008, 17:15

FFXI installed fine on my machine (nVidia 9800, 2.6 Intel Quad, 2 gigs Ram, Ubuntu 8.10). Playonline works with some sound sputters (already noted as a bug) and mirrors itself while loading (once again already noted and this one does not affect it's usability any).

When first starting FFXI I got the black screen after accepting the license agreement, but choosing "Windowed Mode" in the FFXI config fixed that.

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Now; I just told you guys that in case it might help any. My problem with the game is that the - key (for bringing up the main menu) does not seem to work. Everything else on the keyboard works except for -. I have no idea how I can bring up the menu otherwise. Any ideas?

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RE: Key issue by Matt on Monday November 3rd 2008, 19:27

RE: Key issue by A. Vivian on Monday November 3rd 2008, 20:10

RE: Key issue by Matt on Tuesday November 4th 2008, 23:34

RE: Key issue by Matt on Tuesday November 4th 2008, 23:35

RE: Key issue by Terry on Monday November 3rd 2008, 21:26

Cannot use the '/' key
by Matt on Thursday October 30th 2008, 8:35

I cannot use the / key so i cannot type in any commands. like /say.
when you press the / key nothing happens.

any suggestions
Thanks
Matt

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RE: Cannot use the '/' key by Peter Andersson on Thursday October 30th 2008, 8:40

3 issues I am running into
by Matt on Wednesday October 29th 2008, 17:54

Ok I finally go FFXI to run and stop flickering.

I installed Wine 1.1.7 on my Ubuntu 8.10 system
3ghz p4, 2gb mem, ATI x850

It runs playonline flips upside down in certin areas.

The biggest 3 issues I am running into is there is a 2 inch areas that is distorted on the bottom of the window and it is very lagy all the time. And the last issue is the menu items are so bright you have to guess what they are or look at the decription.

Any suggestions on how to fix any of these.

Thanks
Matt

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RE: 3 issues I am running into by Peter Andersson on Thursday October 30th 2008, 5:02

RE: 3 issues I am running into by Matt on Thursday October 30th 2008, 7:49

RE: 3 issues I am running into by Matt on Thursday October 30th 2008, 8:33

RE: Graphical errors.
by Dereck Wonnacott on Saturday October 25th 2008, 16:59

Running Ubuntu 8.10 Beta, with wine 1.1.6, with no patch.

I had a lot of flickering as well, but the game became playable after turning off compiz. (AKA the special effects under: System>Preferences>Appearance>Visual Effects.)

my two cents. :) I have gotten playable results on Nvidia and ATI cards, so keep it up!.

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RE: Graphical errors. by Mattias on Saturday October 25th 2008, 21:28

RE: Graphical errors. by Elly on Sunday October 26th 2008, 19:26

Ooops
by Mattias on Thursday October 23rd 2008, 19:46

After reading through the guide yet another time I noticed something about adding patch and compiled wine. I missed that part. Is this still needed for wine 1.1.6? I could really use some guidance with that if this is the root of my problems, thanks!

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RE: Ooops by Mattias on Saturday October 25th 2008, 12:46

RE: Ooops by Val on Saturday October 25th 2008, 13:06

RE: Ooops by JD on Saturday October 25th 2008, 23:51

Multiple instances of FFXI
by Peter Andersson on Thursday October 23rd 2008, 9:05

Hello everyone.

Today I added a small guide on how to run more than one instance of FFXI at the same time on the same computer.

If you are one of all the people that like to play more than one character at a time I believe you will find this most useful.

Right now there are several draw-backs with the guide and it's methods. They are, at best, crude. I will keep on improving them.

Main problem right now is that it seems there is no way around the fact that you need a separate copy of the new instance. This is because wine seems to put a virtual lock on the files of the first instance.

An optimized way to export the registry data would be to know exactly what data to export and then just process those registry paths. I will see what I can dig up. Maybe someone here knows exactly what needs to be exported.

All the best.

Peter

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RE: Multiple instances of FFXI by Peter Andersson on Thursday October 23rd 2008, 9:12

Why is this happening?
by Mark O'Connor on Thursday October 23rd 2008, 1:19

[IMG] img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/cha0seclipse/whywhy.png[/IMG]

I don't understand the black section. What did i do or could i do. I have followed directions over and over tried windowed and Virtual desktop. Any help would be Great ! Thanks in Advance

Wine 1.1.6

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RE: Why is this happening? by Mark O'Connor on Thursday October 23rd 2008, 1:20

RE: Why is this happening? by Peter Andersson on Thursday October 23rd 2008, 8:59

RE: D3d Errors
by Jeffery on Tuesday October 21st 2008, 7:38

I have this issue with my laptop (my gfx card on that is made by Intel). From what I understand, the card itself doesn't support OpenGL well enough to render the game. It's either that, or the drivers aren't written well enough for 3D graphics.

And it doesn't surprise me ATi cards are having issues because ATi's Linux drivers suck. I'd really look into getting an nVidia card if possible.

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by JD on Sunday October 12th 2008, 18:36

Oh, they are both CLI's but its much more powerful than the DOS shell.

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imm32.dll for Wine-1.1.6
by Lockert Fredrick on Saturday October 11th 2008, 8:44

I've compiled the 1.1.6 imm32.dll with the patch applied, and works great.

You can get it from here: fredrickl.com/wine/imm32.dll.so

I do not guarantee its functionality though (compiled on 64-bit, with 32-bit libs).

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RE: imm32.dll for Wine-1.1.6 by Billy Bridgeman on Sunday October 12th 2008, 7:17

RE: imm32.dll for Wine-1.1.6 by Lockert Fredrick on Sunday October 12th 2008, 8:19

RE: imm32.dll for Wine-1.1.6 by Billy Bridgeman on Sunday October 12th 2008, 8:45

by bryand on Thursday October 2nd 2008, 11:00

Hmm, I created them as strings I think.. but I'll go back and try DWORDS, might have tried that too though.. I don't remember. I'll try to get the pol viewer off of playonline later on too.. I'm using the old discs that were released at the US launch of the game.

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RE: by Anthony on Thursday October 2nd 2008, 13:15

RE: Sound, but no graphics when I launch POL
by Anthony on Wednesday October 1st 2008, 7:13

Make sure that you have your POL resolution set to 640X480 per the howto above, and try experimenting with windowed vs non windowed mode (and do the associated registry tweaks for each). Also, I think it's best if you set the FFXI(not POL) resolutions with the FFXI Config tool instead of using regedit, because the BG resolutions are non-standard. That had me scratching my head for a while.

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RE: Sound, but no graphics when I launch POL by bryand on Wednesday October 1st 2008, 23:56

RE: Sound, but no graphics when I launch POL by Pandoraxero on Thursday October 2nd 2008, 6:49

RE: Sound, but no graphics when I launch POL by bryand on Thursday October 2nd 2008, 11:04

Deb Package with patch!
by Jari Vetoniemi on Wednesday September 24th 2008, 9:28

Here i compiled debian package with patch applied. Not sure if it works correctly since i havent yet tested it with FFXI (Im installing it now currently)

But hopefully it will work. Not sure about if the wine menus appears correctly on the application menu atleast i needed to tune the main menu properities a bit so the programs showed up there correctly.

Tho i think its better than nothing and you could always try if you have i368 comp. If you dont like this package you can always remove it with apt-get remove wine ;)

Link:
flare.xenmedia.org/Wine/wine_1.1.5-1_i386.deb

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RE: Deb Package with patch! by Nick on Wednesday September 24th 2008, 20:41

RE: Deb Package with patch! by Pandoraxero on Wednesday September 24th 2008, 21:16

RE: Deb Package with patch! by Nick on Wednesday September 24th 2008, 22:10

Sanity Patch
by Matt on Tuesday September 23rd 2008, 14:14

I cannot find a howto to install this 0001-Sanity-Check-in-ImmSetCompositionStringA-and-ImmSetC.patch patch

could some one give me some directions or tips or at least where to look.
I went to the link above but it was confusing.

thanks
Matt

Sorry I'm new to linux trying to learn as I go

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RE: Sanity Patch by Pandoraxero on Tuesday September 23rd 2008, 16:29

RE: Sanity Patch by Steve on Tuesday September 23rd 2008, 18:04

RE: Sanity Patch by Jari Vetoniemi on Wednesday September 24th 2008, 5:44

RE: Problems with POL
by Jeffery on Saturday September 20th 2008, 5:57

After backing off and trying again I got POL to boot. I did it by running winecfg and choosing to emulate a desktop. Then I ran polcfg and unchecked run in windowed mode. Then I opened regedit and edited POL's resolution to match my wine's desktop (it ran but in 100% black otherwise) which was 800x600. POL still resized to 640x480 but works. Unfortunately this wasn't as clean of a solution as my desktop, but one cannot argue with progress.

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the patch
by Pandoraxero on Saturday September 6th 2008, 0:56

Nick submitted a patch over a month ago... it still has not been committed.

...but i found it on nabble!

www.nabble.com/0001-Sanity-Check-in-ImmSetCompositionStringA-and-ImmSetC.patch-td18769013.html

To the Players: enjoy your Cheesecake.
To the Devs: it's a sanity check. it makes things work the way they're supposed to.

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RE: the patch by Pandoraxero on Saturday September 6th 2008, 2:47

Necessary hacks.
by Pandoraxero on Saturday August 30th 2008, 0:11

I've been working somewhat in collaboration with ganiman today. i posted my data on ffxiclopedia forums, and allakhazam. Here's a condensed version:

- POL and FFXI installations should work perfectly.
- Set POL to run in a window and edit the registry so that the window dimensions are 640x480 (C:\\Program\ Files\\PlayOnline\\SquareEnix\\PlayOnlineViewer\\polcfg.exe, HKLM\\Software\\PlayOnline[US|EU]\\SquareEnix\\PlayOnlineViewer\\Settings)
- when launching POL before or after the update, you may need to register a copy of dxdiagn.dll from a windows xp install and set dlloverride to native
- after the ffxi update, it will most likely fail to launch, what you need to do is open the FFXI config utility and set ffxi to windowed mode, then go to the FFXI section of the registry and edit 0001 and 0003 to your desired ffxi window width, and 0002 and 0004 to height. (C:\\Program\ Files\\PlayOnline\\SquareEnix\\FINAL\ FANTASY\ XI\\Tools[US|EU]\\FINAL\ FANTASY\ XI\ Config.exe, HKLM\\Software\\PlayOnline[US|EU]\\SquareEnix\\FinalFantasyXI)
- if there's a problem connecting to lobby server, and the problem's persistent, you need to set your hostname to localhost

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RE: Necessary hacks. by Pandoraxero on Saturday August 30th 2008, 0:14

Background resolution
by Ganiman on Friday August 29th 2008, 20:05

With the current version from the git repository as of today, it seems that as long as you keep the background resolution set to 512x512, it doesn't get chopped off anywhere as seen in some of the attached screenshots, or like this one: www.ganiman.com/ffxi/ffxi_wine_15.png

I've tested with various different Overlay Graphics Resolution and Background Resolution combinations, and it seems 512x512 background res works all around. However, the game will look much better if the background res is higher than the overlay res - so when using an overlay of 1024x768 things start getting really blocky.

Other than the background/overlay limitations, the game seems fully playable. I haven't engaged in any battle, but I have seen various animations around whitegate that look normal and I have zoned around a bit with no problems.

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Blank screen (see video)
by Ganiman on Friday August 29th 2008, 11:42

I can log into POL, and POL works fine (aside from the occasional mirror flip), but when I try to log into FFXI I get a blank screen. See the video here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDkoS9a2--k

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RE: Blank screen (see video) by Ganiman on Friday August 29th 2008, 11:43

RE: Blank screen (see video) by Ganiman on Friday August 29th 2008, 12:18

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