Worth it to install ffxi on this machine?

[BIGSTIC]

Well we just got cable internet again and the wife and I are gonna reactivate our FFXI accounts come the first of the month.

Anyway I have this desktop that I got after we moved and has never had ffxi on it. Runs a 9600 Phenom and a 8800 GT 512 with 3GB on a Vista OS.

Should I waste the 7+ hours to put FFXI on it or just stick with the PS2 I used to play on.

[Cephius]

Should be fine, just make sure you download the Vista POL client and the 174.74 Nvidia drivers.

[BIGSTIC]

Well loaded FFXI up last night and after the 6 hour update it is working like a pro. 25+fps in WG so I am happy. Only bitch is windower but meh. I have spent 7 hours this morning reading the windower forums and trying to get 3.3 to work and everytime I get 3.3 working it fucks up FFXI and vice versa. Oh well I used to play on PS2 so not really a big issue. When I get a littlesles frustrated with Vista I will try windower again lol

[Cephius]

What happens when you try to use windower? It worked fine on my machine.

[BIGSTIC]

copy from the windower forums. its pretty frustrating

I have UAC turrned off. I uninstall the IR driver everytime I restart my computer. Every icon has the admin symbol on it and I have made sure every .exe is set to "run as admin" in its properties. I started with 3.3 and got it to the play button but then it would cancel out. Then POL quit working so I reinstall POL and try Lite. Same thing. And everytime it screws up POL which means I have to uninstall POL then Re-load it. After every re-load I log back onto ffxi just to make sure POL is fully working. I even went and found 3.26 on my other comp and tried it. Same thing.