Windows Vista + Vanadiel Collection

[Warcueid]

I'm pretty sure i've posted this in the right section. If not, please move accordingly. Now with that out of the way i'll get down to the nitty-gritty. So I have a laptop that has windows vista as a main OS and i've done some research and noticed that FFXI doesn't work well with WV. I tried installing FFXI on my laptop but it can never get past the second disc and it's really frustrating (mind you I have the first pc version discs and they are in great condition) so I was wondering if the vanadiel collection would work on WV; installation or other wise.

Thanks in advance for reading this and commenting!

[neighbortaru]

http://www.playonline.com/homeus/headline/news01.html

please use the search next time

[Warcueid]

I have downloaded, installed, and updated the VISTA compatible playonline from the pol website, but now I don't know how to install FFXI. When I run setup from the Vanadiel Collection DVD it prompts me to first uninstall pol, before it can install it. Which I did out of frustration but not it wont even install the rest of the game.. Did anyone else have this problem?

[Gray Fox]

I have tried installing FF XI with the the original version and no luck, then I did some reading and I down loaded the Vista POL and then tried to install FFXI. Everytime I try though it says to install pol first. I have disabled UAC and tried that way no luck. I installed FFXI the old way and unstalled pol and put in the vista pol and no luck. I don't seem to find a solution. Hopefully someone will come up with one. The only thing I have not tried is installing FFXI the regular way then replacing the pol.exe file with an updated one, they say that works. Any hints before I attempt to do this??

[DakAttack]

What edition of Vista are you guys using?

[Kafeen]

The main installer on the Vana'diel collection still tries to install POL first. After installing the downloaded version of POL go into each of the sub-directories on the DVD and run the installers in there.

[Gray Fox]

I have vista home premium 6.0 build 6000, i did some more research and one guy said:
1- download pol vista version (which i have)
2- install the original pol (i have the orginal american version)
3- then install the vista version and update pol
4- install FFXI and all the expansion and update
I did step one but when i tried to do step three windows would tell me that there is already a version of this program installed and therefor would not load the vista pol.

I can't seem to figure out how people are doing it.

[Akirion]

Silly

1. Install Vista Compatible POL.
2. Go to the drive you put the game disc in, and open it
3. There should be four folders, I don't remember what the names are but i'm using INST.
4. open INST1 and look for setup.exe.
5. open setup and it should run the FFXI setup.
6. continue with folders 2-4.
7. Enjoy.
=D
thats how i did it.

[Gray Fox]

I am sorry I didn't make this clear but I don't have vanadiel collection cd i have the original FFXI, I did not want to waist time and make another thread so i just asked in this one.

If i load the vista pol and then try to load FFXI it will say load the old pol first. So what do you want me to do now?

[Gray Fox]

and yes I am a noobish at this stuff.

[Kafeen]

I am sorry I didn't make this clear but I don't have vanadiel collection cd i have the original FFXI, I did not want to waist time and make another thread so i just asked in this one.

If i load the vista pol and then try to load FFXI it will say load the old pol first. So what do you want me to do now?

Then I think that there should be a setup to run on each of the CD's after the original POL one. Just skip the POL disk, install the downloaded POL then install each of the seperate CDs.

[Gray Fox]

it wont let me install the MSI package by itself it says to go through setup.exe but ofcourse i get the error when that happens.

I istalled pol from the original version on my laptop then i installed the pol vista on my jump drive and took the files from that and replaced with the filies i have on my laptop and then installed ffxi. It seems to install fine now I just don't know if it will work properly.

[Gray Fox]

..well I tried ffxi after installing everything and didn't work, I am basically back to square one. I am going to unistall it all and wait for a new answer.