FFXI Successfully played on linux

[ismarc]

So, I've been slowly debugging wine to try and get FFXI running on Linux. It's a long, slow process. However, PlayOnline successfully starts. It involved a horrible hack and isn't stable at all, but it does start (which is a massive step). It crashes immediately if you select login. So, for those of you who gave up on it...it may actually work before they shut down the servers.

Attached is a screenshot of PlayOnline actually started.

[Killgannon]

people have got it working up to the accept decline screen before character select with cedega... so unfortunately, everything you've accomplished has been done, and you got my hopes up and crashed them all in one post

this song is relevant to your post: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HbJiF8deCWA

please use google next time ok? ok thanks

[ismarc]

people have got it working up to the accept decline screen before character select with cedega...

please use google next time ok? ok thanks

You do realize that this isn't crazy weird configs that kinda work in this build but won't in the next, right? I'm going line by line and fixing every bug/unimplemented feature in wine that's affecting FFXI. Rather than have a half-working game like a lot of them end up like with wine, the goal is for a normal user to go wine install.exe, swap cds, wine pol.exe, log in and play. If you actually used google appropriately, you'd see the regressions listed in this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11749. The post was made so that people know that it's not an abandoned thing, and that progress is being made. The hacks I've made so far are due to display driver issues that need fixing outside of wine.

The latest state of wine with POL outside of what I've been doing is:

fixme:imm:NotifyIME IMC_SETCONVERSIONMODE
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
err:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000cb0 at address 0x7c069739 (thread 0032), starting debugger...

And honestly, if you look at the bug report, all of the people responsible for the regressions either don't care or aren't paying attention just so they can get 1.0 out the door.

[ismarc]

And an update...POL is updating as I type this. If I can stay up late enough tonight, I may even be able to post an in-game screenshot.

EDIT: POL updated, FFXI updating now.

[ismarc]

Ok, so, series of images attached.

It's possible to log into the game. 3d graphics are all kinds of messed up, and the window didn't resize properly, but there's some tells in there showing it is technically functional.

And I'm off to bed tonight. More progress will probably be slow as I track down the 3d rendering/gamma issues.

[ismarc]

So, I've been able to get the game to actually display. It takes super-low graphics mode + some code changes to get it to work. 3d rendering horks up pretty bad with any sort of reasonable draw-distance, multiple other issues. However, it's possible to log in, run around, and technically possible to play. And now I'm really going to bed. Will probably be more updates this weekend as I try to resolve the outstanding issues.

[Lordwafik]

very nice job! Keep up the work

[Killgannon]

Til you post an in depth step by step how to I call bull shit and say photoshopped (or should I say gimped? Lol)

But no if you srsly have this going I will love you forever, what are the specs of your linux box?

Edit: you do realize that wine alone is not designed for 3d right? Cedega is... But wine developers don't prioritize 3d at all

[Tankjr]

Not only did you get your account back, but you got FFXI running on Linux. You're an internet superhero!

Did you hack the account back from the hackers? That would be a win of epic proportions.

[Kriz]

http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/genera ... -04-a.html

Anyone else tried that? I'm hoping I can play under Mac OS X using VMWare...

[virusiidx]

Anyone tried or know if it works on parallels desktop/workstation? Heard they have some good 3d support.

[Killgannon]

someone said it does work in parrells, but not as good as it could... i dont have a modern mac so i dont have first hand experience with it