wine users - Feb 2012 - Re: Problems with Final Fantasy XI Online - Japanese

Resurrecting this old thread after more than a year in the hope that maybe
someone will have some kind of idea or suggestion...

I'm now using wine-1.4-rc1, and still am unable to get past the FFXI
character selection screen.  I still cannot install the Altana expansion DVD yet
either.

Unfortunately borrowing the English version to test is not possible for me, as I
live in Japan.  Buying it from overseas and having it shipped here is of course
possible, but I'm not prepared to spend money just to simply test if
something works or not.  Sorry.

There seems to be at least one other person who has the same or similar problem,
and posted a bug about it here: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28861

I've added my comments to that bug for now.

After hearing that Wine 1.4 was out, I checked the CodeWeavers site and saw that
Crossover 11.0 (which is based on 1.4) was available.  I've been doing a lot
of FFXI testing on VMware and Parallels on my iMac recently, and wanted to see
whether the latest Crossover could handle it.  I'd tried with 10.x, but got
nothing but white windows.

This time it went much better:  The POL viewer launched, everything was visible,
and it ran wonderfully smoothly.  The (English) FFXI client started successfully
and ran without incident through the title screen and character selection
screen.  However, as already noted here, after selecting a character, I ended up
with a black screen while the music played in the background... and that was it.

It seems a shame to be stuck at this point, because everything up to then
appeared to be running really well.

I'm running on a late 2009 21.5" iMac with ATI graphics, on a Windows
XP bottle.  Any ideas?

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:56 AM, periastron <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> After hearing that Wine 1.4 was out, I checked the CodeWeavers site and saw
that Crossover 11.0
CrossOver problems have to be reported to CodeWeavers even if the
problem appears to be Wine code.

James