Final Fantasy XIV Online Forum

When fresh loading the game and trying to start it I would get connection errors, no updates, log in etc.
But I have moved past that point and can now get updates and even a login window with no content.
I'm going to tell you the process I used to get this far and will update this thread when I get even further. There are some forums out there that claim to have it running and have screen shots.
I tried to duplicate what they did/suggested with Crossover Games 9.2.0./ OpenSuSE 11.3 64 Bit.
Alot of this I read from Wine HQ HERE -> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=21478

1. Launch Crossover Games Manage Bottle app and crate a new bottle with bottle type winxp, name it what you want.

2. Highlight the bottle and choose the Applications tab.
   Click Install Software and install the following:
   Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable

3. Click the Control Panel tab and run Wine Configuration.
   Go to the Libraries tab add winhttp, then edit it and change it to Native.
   Then select wininet, select edit and change it to native.
   Go to the Audio tab and the program will automatically set up the audio for the bottle, you can test if it works, if it doesn't that should be covered on the crossover site of how to fix it.
   Open a web browser and go to www.dll-files.com and search for winhttp.dll (download it) and wininet.dll (download it). Go to the Advanced tab and Click browse C: Drive, navigate to windows->system32 and extract those DLL files you downloaded to that folder and yes overwrite the originals.

4 . Now you can go to the Applications tab and Click Install Software, Select Installer, Choose Installer File and navigate to your CD/DVD where the game is and open ffxivsetup.exe, then scroll to Unsupported Applications click Other Application then Click Install. It will ask to install Direct X, go ahead, after that is done FFXIV will start the install process and continue on with that. Be patient this game is huge and takes a while to install (9.3 Gigs).

5. Okay, you can't start the game just yet you need to go to the bottle and Click Run Command, browse to Program Files->SquareEnix->Final Fantasy XIV and select ffxivconfig.exe then click Run and then change any relative graphics settings there and save.
   Note: I wouldn't use full screen if I were you, it even has problems in Windows.

6. To install IE 7 Compatibility Go to http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name?app_id=1491 and Click install VIA C4P
   This crashes for me and I have to actually download IE 7 From Microsoft and install it in the bottle without extra crud, which I have a license for.

7. At this point you can run the Final Fantasy XIV launcher on your desktop, it should update the game and give you a log in window with no content.
   Note: On the initial Update window with a red background you will have to force it closed when the download window opens otherwise the update won't continue. After that you won't have this issue with updates.

That's all I have for now will post if I make more progress and good luck

Hi Joe,

Just reading through that, you can do that whole shizzle by using the
Microsoft HTML Rendering Engine 7 target in the 'Community Supported Apps'
section of the cxinstaller GUI. You still might need to check the library
overrides, but, installing mshtml7 is going to give you a bunch of different
functionality, so your actual test conditions will change considerably by
going this route - mind you, mshtml7 (as a C4 app/target) was actually created
to (try ;) and service the situation in CXG, where some games etc automatically
assume IE7 (or better) is present, when clearly it is not in Crossover/wine.
Gecko (cxhtml engine) is...or is supposed to be and one day hopefully will be,
our wine environment equivalent to IE* stuffs and we won't -need- certain parts
of IE6/7 to 'get the job done'..Microsoft HTML Rendering Engine 6 & 7 are as
close as we get right now -- they do -not- provide a working web browser install
of IE, we're just roping in dll's and such....

...also note here, that CXO behaves entirely different with mshtml6 & 7 compared
to how CXG works with it....example; with GamersGate releases, using CXO with
mshtml7 installed actually works to download the game and get past the online
DRM registration activation business -- game probably runs like junk in CXO tho'
so I archive the bottle and restore it into the CXG runtime environment and it
works. Using mshtml7 in CXG, I can't even get it past server_auth to actually
download the game, let alone get anywhere near the online DRM shizzle...YMMV. In
CXO as well, you can install IE6/7 proper, not our expurgated versions, and in
some cases getting over some of these online/patch/updating operations can have
a better time of it in CXO...(then archive the result and restore into CXG)...

Just FYI stuff mainly, 'food for thought' as we say...your posting is descriptive
enough (thanks ;) for me to see you're facing similar issues that led to the mshtml
targets being created...the login thang, that sounds awfully like ieframe afoot,
which mshtml provides, along with the other dlls you cite...

..btw, you can do pretty much all of this here so far via C4P, but obviously giving
the above notions a shot to try and move it on further would be the thing to do the now...

...hope this helps...

Cheers!

I noticed the C4P stuff the other day when I logged on to Codeweavers, pretty nifty idea, I tried the install of Microsoft HTML Rendering Engine 7 but it just crashes for me not sure why. I have to actually install MSIE7 from a download for it to work. I submitted a Screenshot of the login screen, but it has a typical MS error with no explanation. Not sure where to go from here.

These ones are always hard...can take literally hours to debug it all ;
sometimes (telltale games example) I had to futz with a combination of
dll overrides to get those to work...considering the number of possible
permutations here, I think I hit upon the magic formula after the 26th
attempt or such...if you're willing to grab a debug log of the situation
as far as you've got it so far, lemme know and I'll post back some instructs..

Cheers!

.

Hi,

Please don't post logfiles to the forums - I said I would give you
some instructions on what to do...see the bit down the bottom of the
post submission form where it says "[i]Do not post entire log files here.
Please trim them down to only the important lines.[/i]" ...you might
think the above is trimmed down ; it is not...it's not even particularly
useful, because it's unqualified...so...take 2 - "if you're willing to
grab a debug log of the situation as far as you've got it so far, lemme
know and I'll post back some instructions"....believe me, I'm not having
a go at you here, I'm just trying to arrive at relevant data as quickly
and easily as possible....

Cheers!

Cleared log... Okay show me the way sensei.... 😀

I had to install IE7 before the game otherwise the installer would crash on me. Everything else worked fine for the install and update.

I got to the log-in screen but like you said it was blank (actually the error screen when the site is down) and 63 pop up windows saying there is a script error asking if I want to continue plus a blank CX error window(I am assuming error because it won't let me do anything else until it is closed which it won't do.) I close CX down and restart it with the same result. I have seen this error in Windows 7 before but I didn't have an unclosable window stopping me from clicking Yes to approve scripts and it worked when I restarted, not sure what to do since I can't get to those buttons.

Mac Pro 2x 2.66 Xenon
11GB RAM
OSX 10.6.4