FINAL FANTASY XI: Ultimate Collection Seekers Edition Forum

So far, when I go to install FFXI the installer locks up the entire mac. It just sits there. I might not be waiting long enough to see if it's just making the system hang while it tries to load it up. Running OS X Leopard 10.5.3. Not sure exactly what's going on but again, this game isn't on the supported game list. Once this game runs on OS X or if Square does a Mac client, then I can remove my boot camp partition.

Not working yet hopefully it's not too far off. This game is the main reason I bought Crossover, and the only reason why I still run Windows. Once FFXI is working in Crossover I will go Windows free.

Looks like Crossover Games uses Wine 0.9.55 witch was a fairly good one to run Playonline Viewer (the launcher for FFXI). I haven't got it working yet but tomorrow I will be following a guide written for Wine. If it works i'll post it and tweak the instructions for Crossover Games. The guide gets you into FFXI but it crashes shortly afterwards.

If I can get Playonline Viewer working maybe the Crossover team can take a crack at why FFXI crashes.

Of course to logon to FFXI to need to have an account and that costs a monthly fee. I'd be more then glad to let Codeweavers use a spare account of mine.

If the entire Mac crashes then that is a bug in the MacOS kernel or any piece of software running in the kernel, like the graphics driver. CrossOver is a pure user mode application, it is the kernel's job to prevent it from crashing the entire system.

Some time ago I looked at the FFXI benchmarks, which use the in-game graphics as far as I can see. I had them working before the CrossOver 6.1 release on my Linux and Mac boxes, and unless I broke something later they should still work.

Getting an FFXI account for testing is not an issue for us. We have a number of game accounts for purposes like that.

My Playonline and FFXI discs install fine. There are a number of different install discs released (original, 2006, 2007, and the Starter Kit).

When I launch Playonline it crashes but OS X is fine, I have no clue why his Final Fantasy XI installer is causing a OSX wide crash.

That is exactly my point, people fooling around have gotten Playonline Viewer going. The Final Fantasy XI benchmark witch uses the Final Fantasy XI graphics engine runs on both Wine and Crossover. That tells me there is probably not to much in the way of getting it working. It's not like it doesn't work at all it does.

Very cool to see a Staff Member reply to this especially so quickly. Keep up the great work, hopefully FFXI support is not to far off.

I'm going to try the install again and see...in a brand new bottle. But when I stick in the disc (this is the original POL disc 1) it just stops and sits at the loading screen. I'll wait a bit longer but when I'm waiting I can't do anything else on the computer.

My computer isn't crashing (giving the black box of death) but it's just locking up at the 'loading' screen. I of course am being impatient and force and shutdown/reboot instead of waiting. Let me try again to see if it goes past the loading screen to begin the install.

I have gotten POL to install, but it crashes before I can install FFXI. I am able to install FFXI after that, by manually running the exe instead of using the standard setup screens. I however cannot get POL to produce graphics when I run the POL application after all is installed. I can hear the correct sound, but the video does not render properly and just stays black.

I still can't get anything to install. I put the POL disc (the original POL Disc from FFXI purchase back in 2002) and the startup screen shows because it launches the exe right away. But it locks up my entire machine. I've turned off anything that could be running in the background. I don't understand how this can lock up my entire system. Running Leopard on a MacBook Pro 17" 2.0 Ghz with 4 GB RAM.

using version 7.1.1, installation has a few issues, installed the viewer but after install crossover claimed it wasn't installed and ffxi wouldn't install, rather than creating a new bottle I just simply installed viewer a second time into same bottle, worked perfect, all expansions installed, play online viewer sound works fine after enabling driver emulation. in order to get graphics to work I had to set graphics to emulate monitor at 1024x768, turn off hardware vertex shader support, put playonline viewer into full screen mode.

play online viewer functions perfectly with the exception of sometimes the graphics flip upside down, this can sometimes be temporarily fixed by moving mouse in and out of the window, if that fails sometimes clicking stuff, like the logout button, will fix it, imediately cancel the logout rather than logging out, but the act of poping up the logout prompt seems to correct the graphics.

game play is unknown, i'm on satellite internet which is metered, so I can't spare the bandwidth to update the game, will update it somewhere else when I get time and give results of that. so far, only issue that appears in need of fixing is the screen inverting at random.

I hope this helps with bringing ffxi support to crossover

edit, I forgot to mention that sometimes when installing it appears crossover or the installer is frozen, this is especially true when installing the viewer and ffxi, not the expansions. the progress bar jumps to 100% after a few seconds and the installer doesn't go away, leaving you to believe it's froze, it's not. it's still installing, the progress bar in the installer of some versions of the cd tends to clash with crossover a bit. ignore it, let it go, it'll finish in time.