Hello and Thank you for your reply Alhanelem,
I bought my Son a Dell Inspiron 27 7710 AIO running Windows 11 Home. I installed FFXI.
After playing it for 15 minutes or so, he saw the Window running FFIX simply disappear. No errors and no messages.
I turned on Windows compatibility mode setting it to 8. It STILL had the same problem but he was able to run for a little bit more than an hour before the window simply disappeared without any message or dialog box.
Any thoughts or suggestions? He says he can't trust the system as he could be in a battle or party, etc where people are counting on him.
I offered to return the Dell, as we're still in the 30 days return period. He has faith SE will get it working, but hey, I don't know.
Every home computer today is coming with Windows 11 and SE sees fit to NOT support FFXI on Windows 11. Will they support it and if so when?
Thank you.
Last edited by IBHalliwell; 08-29-2022 at 06:46 AM.
The insight I can provide here is fairly limited. All I can tell you is I have this PC i built myself like 5 years ago. I'm running windows 11 even though MS doesn't really want me to and have had no issues playing the game.
The most likely culprit is probably the GPU drivers. Try installing the reference drivers from AMD/NVIDIA's website for your graphics hardware, and see if that helps. Dell in particular often has their own drivers for the hardware andd it could cause issues. Intel integrated graphics I think people have also had issues. This in spite of the fact that the game barely uses your GPU in any way at all.
(The annoying thing with graphics drivers in win11 for me has been sometimes it wants to install drivers through windows update even if I have a newer version from AMD directly, so if you install the reference drivers, you may want to disable the optional updates so that it only updates Windows itself)
If you do want to return the Dell, I'd reccomend doing a self-build or buying a proper desktop PC rather than an all-in-one, these will be much better for gaming, as all-in-ones often have laptop graphics hardware in them, and more likely to have issues with some games. especially older ones.
Last edited by Alhanelem; 08-29-2022 at 11:01 AM.
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