Linux

[KoKuToru]

WINE is extremely unreliable when it comes to network from my experience. For example, I just set everything up on ubuntu 12.04 and I am only getting network access when starting the program via command prompt, but not if I launch the exe directly.

And in case of ffxivboot, it fails it's version check no matter how I start it. It might be because I'm launching it from an NTFS partition, idk.

Okay..

0. Get a NVIDIA graphiccard.. install the original NVIDIA driver (not the opensource one) + Install lib32 version of it ! (when you are at 64bit)
1. Ubuntu .. check your wine version. Ubuntu loves it to use years old wine-versions. Get the newest version at http://www.winehq.org/
2. dump NTFS, copy everything onto ext3/ext4 don't forget to give the executeable-flag to ffxivboot.exe !
3. If you are at 64bit.. reinit your wine -> backup your files. Remove the ".wine" folder. First time start wine with "WINEARCH=win32 winecfg"
4. Install winetricks. Use it to install "d3dx9_36 ie6 winhttp wininet xact and msfont"
5. Start ffxivboot.exe..
6. Have fun at very slow performance (GTX460 3000[win] points vs 600[wine] points [ffxiv benchmark], and thats why a OpenGL client would help..)

I use it everyday, works pretty "okay". Performance is very sh**. But good enough to "not install windows".

At wine 1.3.31 you could use "orm=backbuffer" which .. really boosted performance a lot.. well shadow only worked half with it.
Every version after it you need to use "orm=fbo" it's a lot slower but correctly rendered. If you try to use "orm=backbuffer" you will get an upside down image.

EDIT:
Here is my start script which I use:

#!/bin/bash
export WINEDEBUG=-all
export __GL_YIELD=NOTHING
export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1

echo "start ffxivconfig"
wine ffxivconfig.exe

echo "set nvidia"
nvidia-settings -l

echo "start ffxivboot"
wine ffxivboot.exe&
FFXIV_BOOT_PID=$!
export LD_PRELOAD=

echo "wait for ffxivlogin"
until pidof "$(winepath -w ffxivlogin.exe)"; do
#wait 1 sec
sleep 1
done

echo "kill ffxivboot (because it's buggy)"
kill -9 $FFXIV_BOOT_PID
kill -9 $(pidof $(winepath -w ffxivboot.exe))

#remove the wine error box ? .. disable the error report..