Getting FFXI to work with Vista

[Vistrix]

I had it working earlier from a fresh install, played for a few hours...logged on the next day and its not working anymore lol

I get a "Direct3D error, your system does not meet the requirements".

Ive tried:

-XP compatibility mode
-Fresh install with "Vista" Play Online download
-Changing resolution using regedit (incase it was a res issue)


Why isnt Square Enix doing anything about Vista users...? Is there any official word on these problems with Vista?

All my other games work flawlessly with Vista. These include Bioshock, CS:Source, Anarchy Online, Medieval Total War 2, Quake 3, Civ 4, Stalker etc etc...

Huge range of games and only problems with FFXI...


Not sure if this will help anyone but I've noticed installing FFXI on any other drive but C: will guarantee a failure to load the game.

[Feba]

You do realize that Microsoft made Vista, not SE, right?

SE can't fix problems with Vista. They can try to work around them, but given that Microsoft is probably not giving them much help there's not much they can do, especially given both sides are probably blaming each other. It's nVidia all over again.

Short story of it is, find a way to deal with it, or don't use Vista.

[Kailea]

yeah I would agree with Feba here, but really all these people having "problems" I have not had one problem running FFXI in Vista.

Install the Vista POL and fully update it

Install FFXI and the expansions and fully update them

you should not have to choose any of the compatibility options.

but before doing all that, update/reinstall your video drivers, its a video error, don't blame Vista

[Vistrix]

You do realize that Microsoft made Vista, not SE, right?

SE can't fix problems with Vista. They can try to work around them, but given that Microsoft is probably not giving them much help there's not much they can do, especially given both sides are probably blaming each other. It's nVidia all over again.

Short story of it is, find a way to deal with it, or don't use Vista.

Are you serious...?

Game developers have programmed their games to work with Vista. Almost all games work 100% fine with Vista.

SE need to program the game to work with Vista if the OS continues to grow.. Its nothing to do with Microsoft.

Vista will just keep growing and growing, especially with DX10 games.

SE need to sort this out, just like every other game developer has.

[Mhurron]

Why isnt Square Enix doing anything about Vista users...? Is there any official word on these problems with Vista?

They did, they wrote a POL client just for Vista users. It works just fine for everyone else running FFXI on Vista, so any problem isn't SE's to deal with.

[Vistrix]

yeah I would agree with Feba here, but really all these people having "problems" I have not had one problem running FFXI in Vista.

Install the Vista POL and fully update it

Install FFXI and the expansions and fully update them

you should not have to choose any of the compatibility options.

but before doing all that, update/reinstall your video drivers, its a video error, don't blame Vista

Well I did do that yesterday, took forever to update and it did actually run fine for hours.

I log onto Play Online today, and I cant even load the game up...

Im running 7.8 Catalyst drivers.

A64 4200+ x2
Radeon X1950pro
2gb Corsair XMS PC3200

Any idea what that could be? Running Vista Business...

They did, they wrote a POL client just for Vista users. It works just fine for everyone else running FFXI on Vista, so any problem isn't SE's to deal with.

Yeah, Play Online works 100% fine, they did that well. I can play Tetra master ok... They didnt do anything about FFXI though, did they?

[Mhurron]

Yeah, Play Online works 100% fine, they did that well. I can play Tetra master ok... They didnt do anything about FFXI though, did they?

It wasn't needed. Loading problems on Vista were POL problems. The problems you're having are either Vista itself (unlikely) or something you've done (likely).

[Kailea]

this is going to sound odd.... but download and use Cat 7.4 and try that, I have had problems with all the versions after 7.4

remove all the ATI stuff completly, and then install 7.4

[Vistrix]

this is going to sound odd.... but download and use Cat 7.4 and try that, I have had problems with all the versions after 7.4

remove all the ATI stuff completly, and then install 7.4

Really? Did this work for you with FFXI?

I'll give this a go later...thanks.

[Kailea]

Really? Did this work for you with FFXI?
I'll give this a go later...thanks.

yeah alot of my games just kept crashing, and I was getting video crash reports.... and once I rolled back to 7.4 it all stopped

[Vistrix]

Ok thanks. Ill try that tonight...


Vista has some nice security features and event logs...heres what it says happend when it crashed in the event log:

A request to disable the Desktop Window Manager was made by process (PlayOnline Viewer)

Not sure what that means, but its logged about 15 times in the space of a few seconds, weird.

[Kailea]

ooooohhhhhhhhh


make sure Vista POL is running in admin mode as well, and check the last 3 check boxes in settings under compatibility

[Vistrix]

Ok tried what you suggest and it didnt work...

I just got off the phone to Square Enix and they said that my card (X1950 pro), is not supported. The X1xxxx range is not supported at all and cant run FFXI.

Really terrible...I did check the FFXI website and it doesnt list the X1xxxx range.

Looks like I just wasted a months fee.

[Kailea]

I have a Radion x1950 pro as well -.-

mmm well make sure to do ALL of this togeather as a fix and see if it helps

install 7.4 cat

update direct X to latest (try and update it even if you think you already are)

run POL.exe in admin mode and make sure the last 3 boxs under settings are checked in the compatibility tab

doing all this at once should fix it...if not, I am out of ideas ;p

oh and if you edit the registry to change your resolution, change it to something normal like 1024x768, and see if that does anything