Devs, Is the New Mac Client Launching Today (6/6/19)?

[linay]

Requiring only the latest macos release, Mojave, is really bad. They should at least support High Sierra, which isn't that old. If the new client is still just a WINE port, there's no good reason for this, and even if it's a proper native app now, there's no good reason for it.

I just started playing FFXIV this month, and it already looks like I'll have to stop playing it.

Sorry to hear that, hopefully things will work out for you.

[JarenCorax]

Sorry to hear that, hopefully things will work out for you.

Thanks!

If anybody's in the same boat, I put a request up on the tech support forum, you might want to chime in.

[savageink]

Requiring only the latest macos release, Mojave, is really bad. They should at least support High Sierra, which isn't that old. If the new client is still just a WINE port, there's no good reason for this, and even if it's a proper native app now, there's no good reason for it.

I just started playing FFXIV this month, and it already looks like I'll have to stop playing it.

I'd just try it and see if it works. They have a history of having the requirements higher then the reality ever since they dropped it with the requirements set too low and then pulled it.

[Periastron]

I was digging around in the application bundle of the new client and found some interesting things. While it is true that this is a 64-bit Wine wrapper, it appears to contain code and libraries by Codeweavers, who produce the Crossover product for Mac and Linux.

I also found libMoltenVK.dylib in the bundle. If the new client actually uses it, that could be good news. Certainly, my brief test of the new client before I left for work this morning shows that it is at least as fast as the old client, and possibly faster. I'm looking forward to testing this out more tonight, but I'd be interested in hearing other impressions of the new client's performance.

I'm running on a quad core i7 2017 iMac with the high end Radeon graphics adapter.

[MsQi]

I'd just try it and see if it works. They have a history of having the requirements higher then the reality ever since they dropped it with the requirements set too low and then pulled it.

Hoping this is the case, I want to stay with Sierra if I can.