Final Fantasy XI Tips

The following tip was submited to the forums from forum user xhcl below is a copy of the post

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Looking at WineHQ recently I read some posts about adding Registry keys that fix a lot of problems FFXI has been having in Wine
so I decided to try it out in Crossover and so far it has fixed a lot of problems I've been having in 7.2.0 such as:

Full Screen not working  
POL window not drawing right
The "black bar" problem ingame if your background resolution is higher than the overlay
Disappearing Character models depending on the camera angle

HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Wine > Direct3D

Add a value called "OffscreenRenderingMode" and set it to "fbo"

I also opened winecfg and set pol.exe to run in vista mode. The bottle ffxi is installed in is a XP bottle I dont know if winecfg will overwrite that or not, but since adding these tweaks the game has been made much much more playable.
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This I can confirm fixes alot of issues faced with ffxi in wine this fix is safe to use on vanila wine as well as crossover games. It does solve screenfliping slightly improves performance in some areas as well as resolves the issues mentioned in the above post

This also allows you to turn off the emulation of a virtual desktop outlined int he tip above.

Is this the perfect solution?
No

Will there still be issues ?
Yes

Does it make the game more playable?
Yes

You can monitor this link
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1992

it is the link to the Wine app db entry for this game often times those hacks work here as well