http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24576
--- Comment #9 from Jonathan Wilkinson 2jp.ebd@gmail.com 2010-10-05 00:43:34 CDT --- (In reply to comment #8)
Did you do anything differently to be able to get past the start splashscreen?
The only thing I can say I did differently than anything else I've read is I created the wine prefix using:
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine.ff WINEARCH=win32 winecfg
The important part being WINEARCH=win32. I did this after trying to run winetricks ie6 and it giving me an error about the os being 64bit. For some reason my wine was creating win64 wineprefixes by default. I had to reinstall wine changing from the x86_64 package to the i686 package (I'm running Fedora 13 x86_64). I figured it had more to do with the Fedora packaging of wine than anything as this isn't the fist time it has created prefixes with the wrong architecture for me.
So: WINEPREFIX=~/.wine.ff WINEARCH=win32 winecfg Install gecko WINEPREFIX=~/.wine.ff sh winetricks winhttp ie6 Install FFXIV from disk(including the directx install) WINEPREFIX=~/.wine.ff WINEDEBUG=+winsock ~/.wine.ff/drive_c/Program\ Files/SquareEnix/FINAL\ FANTASY\ XIV/ffxivboot.exe
Without the WINEARCH part I couldn't even get the past the "11023 Unable to access server for version check." or "11014 Version check failed." errors. With it I patched, logged in and actually entered game. Of course at the character selection and in game the character model explodes and no other characters even attempt to render, but that's a different bug:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24632
I tried entering a test result, but it was my first time so I don't know what happened. The other take away I had put into it was that I had to enable hardware mouse acceleration, as without it the mouse lagged horribly. You can enable that in the menus of ffxivconfig.exe . Utterly baffles me that you can't modify the graphics settings in game, but whatever.