ffxi won't work with my graphics card?

[mkayman]

I recently got a new computer and I wanted to install Final Fantasy XI on it so I did. I can go through everything fine til I actually want to play the game and it doesn't load and it says "Terminated as error occurred in FINAL FANTASY XI. Failed to recognize Hardware TnL. Please check that this computer has the required specifications to run FINAL FANTASY.(-1)"
Well the video card I'm using is a VIA/S3G UniChrome Graphics, which is a 32mb video card but as for it working, it doesn't look like it. Also when I go into config I get a blank config(in bitmap image included, pic also looks funny cause i had to lower the size by changing the amout of colors used) so I know something ain't right. Can someone tell me if they have this card er know of any way to fix this? Thanks, and by the way, I believe I have all the correct drives downloaded.

[Cecil118]

Its the video card, needa buy a new one. I just got a brand new computer in October and the onboard video was so bad it wouldnt run Counterstrike good, now thats sad

[Jroggy]

go to the main forum and look for the topic called ffxi emulator. it's not really an emulator for ffxi, but for direct x 8.1 and opengl. anyways this program can emulate TnL(actually it just tells the comp it's there) so you'll be able to run FFXI it worked for me. oh and don't expect to use high res or anything :sweat: you'll probably have to turn off bump mapping and mip mapping. i have 512 ram and a 2.53 ghz processor and i only got 1530 on the benchmark(with everything off)

[Gauvain]

I have the same video thing in my pc, thats not even a video card, it's a default video on your motherboard, you need to buy some decent agp video card and it will overrun the onboard one.