Currently can only stay in the game at most 10 seconds before playonline stops working. Also the only thing I can see of models are the names above their head. All character models are invisible. I've tried different settings both on my pc and in game and have had no luck trying to narrow down what specifically is causing it.

Toshiba Satellite S855-S5369
Windows 8
Intel Core I5-3210M 2.5ghz
6gig ram
All latest updates.

I know generally both laptops and windows 8 are currently unsupported at this time, but was just shooting this out there to see if anybody else ran into similar issues. I'm going to try and uninstall and delete everything FFXI related from the computer and see if that helps.