playonline goes black when launching ffx

[RAIST]

If you are running on Win7, you are going to need the POL from the website if you are installing from media before the big 2010 collection (I think that's when they first included the Vista compliant POL). The one installed from the older discs has issues with the newer OS.

Also...if you are on Win7, are you running as Admin?

As for copying from your XP install, you can move all the ROM and DAT assets over from the xp system --will drastically reduce what needs to be updated through POL. Not sure exactly which ones are only the new files, so you may need to just grab all of them. Drill down to the folder that has the ROM, ROM2-ROM8 and Sound, Sound2-Sound6, etc. You can copy those folders over to where they are on the other system (you will get prompted to overwrite some of them, let it do it as they will be either the same or newer).

It is a LOT of smaller files (about 50k files adding up to 10GB on my system). Depending on how you originally installed and how long you've been playing, yours may not look as bad as mine. Either way, you may save some time by zipping them up first so you are moving them over as a single file, then unpack them.

[Spre]

If you are running on Win7, you are going to need the POL from the website if you are installing from media before the big 2010 collection (I think that's when they first included the Vista compliant POL). The one installed from the older discs has issues with the newer OS.

Also...if you are on Win7, are you running as Admin?

As for copying from your XP install, you can move all the ROM and DAT assets over from the xp system --will drastically reduce what needs to be updated through POL. Not sure exactly which ones are only the new files, so you may need to just grab all of them. Drill down to the folder that has the ROM, ROM2-ROM8 and Sound, Sound2-Sound6, etc. You can copy those folders over to where they are on the other system (you will get prompted to overwrite some of them, let it do it as they will be either the same or newer).

It is a LOT of smaller files (about 50k files adding up to 10GB on my system). Depending on how you originally installed and how long you've been playing, yours may not look as bad as mine. Either way, you may save some time by zipping them up first so you are moving them over as a single file, then unpack them.

admin -> yes

Win7/vista compatible pol -> Yes the old one doesn't install on win7 at all and I use toplay on vista before upgrading to 7 anyway, and yes I downloadeda new copy from the site.

The xp install all the files add up to 8 gig not including the viewer and is currently updated. Still have an hour of updating on this new install beforeI can get pics of the issue.