Hello all,
I've been trying (and thus far failing) to get the Japanese version of FFXI working under wine. I have been playing FFXI here in Japan since the release, so I have the original Japanese 4-disc CD set, plus the extra CDs/DVDs for each different expansion.
I originally started with wine-1.3.8, and for the most part, the CD installs and POL/FFXI updates worked fine -- I was actually quite impressed to see how much wine has improved. I did initially experience extremely slow rendering (multiple seconds/frame) with POL, but I found that if I suspended desktop effects (I'm using KDE 4.5.3), that fixed the POL rendering issue.
Presently I have two remaining problems:
1) I am unable to install the Altana - Wings of the Goddess expansion disk, even though Zilart, Promathia, and Aht Urhgan installed fine.
wine-1.2.1 gives the following dump after I try to run setup.exe from the install CD (wine-1.3.8 and 1.3.10 reported similar TypeLib errors, which is where I believe the root of the problem is):
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"bpoint" (nil) 0x3382c0 (nil) 0x3382c4 0x3382b8 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"bpoint" 0x19b020 0x3382c0 0x19b128 0x3382c4 0x3382b8 - stub
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x7fd651229000 0 0x7fd65629fcb0 4
fixme:atl:AtlModuleInit SEMI-STUB (0x40f900 0x40f010 0x400000)
err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {101a9fa5-98cb-4ac3-b67c-3dc040c45996}
err:ole:ClientIdentity_QueryMultipleInterfaces IRemUnknown_RemQueryInterface failed with error 0x80004002
err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_ReleaseMarshalData could not map object ID to stub manager, oxid=1f00000020, oid=2
err:ole:CoReleaseMarshalData IMarshal::ReleaseMarshalData failed with error 0x8001011d
err:msi:remove_tracked_tempfiles failed to delete L"C:\\users\\bpoint\\Temp\\msid19.tmp"
fixme:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Header type magic 0x00905a4d not supported.
err:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Loading of typelib L"C:\\users\\bpoint\\Temp\\{8C51E357-D034-457C-955B-6D0882E0FA59}\\EncryptPatchVer.dll" failed with error 0
fixme:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Header type magic 0x00905a4d not supported.
err:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Loading of typelib L"C:\\users\\bpoint\\Temp\\{8C51E357-D034-457C-955B-6D0882E0FA59}\\Cleanup.dll" failed with error 0
fixme:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Header type magic 0x00905a4d not supported.
err:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Loading of typelib L"C:\\users\\bpoint\\Temp\\{8C51E357-D034-457C-955B-6D0882E0FA59}\\POLCoreCheck.dll" failed with error 0
InstallShield then pops up a dialog with "1628: ¹¯ê×ÈÙü¹n¤ó¹Èüë???gM~[?gW_", or translated: The script base install could not be completed. Clicking OK just aborts the install.
2) FFXI freezes with a black screen (but music continues to play) after the screenfade out when logging into the lobby server after selecting the login character -- the "Downloading Data" never shows in the bottom-right hand corner.
I did a bit of digging on this one already, and previous versions of wine seemed to have a problem with this -- most notably wine-1.1. There is a "sanity patch" which adds some checking into imm32, but recent wine versions seem to have this patch already in the source, so I don't know what the problem is. I've also tried various graphic tweaks using FFXI's configuration tool, but nothing helped. I should point out that the graphics and animations (and sound/music) are absolutely flawless inside the FFXI menu, and it runs at a very nice framerate.
So far, I've tried wine-1.2.1, 1.3.8, and 1.3.10, and all three exhibit the same two problems I described above. I'm guessing since FFXI seems to work for everyone else, the fact that I am using the Japanese version might be the issue. (Before you ask, no -- I don't own the English version, so I can't try it.)
System-wise, I'm running Gentoo on amd64, with nvidia-drivers-260.19.21 on a GeForce GT 240.
Any suggestions at this point would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
