wine users - Feb 2011 - new with Mac, trying to play FFXIV, please help

I managed to find some good information on how to play this game without having
to run windows on my mac ( i bought a mac for a reason), andI have hit a wall.

to get this game to run i need to do this - 

Game Install works without any DLL overrides. 
Patching works perfectly with wininet and winhttp overrides. (Surprised by how
fast it actually was)
Plays perfectly with winhttp overrides and winetricks on directx9, xact and ie6
Sound is great with Emulation at 44100. 

now what does the overrides mean and how do i do it?

any help would be appreciated.

Kingznake

you can set up overrides easy in winecfg on the Library tab
http://wiki.winehq.org/winecfg

if you use Winetricks (http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks) to install most of
this stuff, it will do the install and set the overrides correctly for you.

overriding is basically overriding a Wine version of doing something with a MS
version.  Like... overriding a Wine DirectX dll file with one from
Microsoft's direct x version.

Im actually using Crossover, so im not sure if that makes a difference

kingznake wrote:
> Im actually using Crossover, so im not sure if that makes a difference

it does...

this forum is for plain Wine... Crossover is highly customized, and they have
their own support forums.  While overriding is the same thing, and you also have
winecfg... there may be other things that need to be done.. I have no idea, I
stopped using Crossover several versions ago.

ok ive removed crossover and i have downloaded the latest wine, now i know im a
complete noob, but when i downloaded the program, it was compressed , when i
uncompressed it, it opened up a wine folder, but i couldnt find a winecfg file
or even a file to run wine itself, any ideas?

I just remembered, wine doesnt actually have its own UI correct? I remember from
using ubuntu a while back.

do i just run winetricks? or do i need to do something in winecfg 
( where can i find winecfg by they way?)