One solution is to turn off the 60 fps limiter in game, which makes the game stutter and tear erratically though, so it isn’t really a solution in my opinion. This basically adds more modern DLL replacements for DirectX which use Vulkan, which seems to be the future way of playing games through Wine and adds more configuration options (through nf).Īnd those configuration options matter, because while the game now runs surprisingly well and stable, there is a lot of visual lag – it feels like 10-20 frames.

On Arch Linux, DXVK can be installed with the AUR package dxvk-bin, and enabled in the current prefix by running setup_dxvk install. The launcher is also much less sluggish when it uses DXVK libraries too so that’s what I use now. Wine-staging meanwhile works fine, and there is DXVK support at this point for it. There is a way to run winecfg in Proton by running any executable with PROTON_DUMP_DEBUG_COMMANDS=1 and then /tmp/proton_USERNAME/run winecfg, however this produces the same result on my end. I can’t confirm this works with regular wine though.įurthermore, this is where Proton fails for me: Even when you edit that value in the Proton prefixes’ registry, Proton basically ignores the setting and the license error appears. However, this option is only visible when using wine-staging, otherwise it’s possible to manually edit the registry with wine regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine and create a string value named HideWineExports with the value Y. I made a post on r/linux_gaming for this, with almost no replies except one person pointing out I should open winecfg, head to the Staging tab, and enable “Hide Wine version from applications”. To register a license, please visit the FINAL FANTASY XIV: Mog Station ( ).

Which is how I then get to the dreaded license error: This service account does not have a valid FINAL FANTASY XIV license for this platform or your subscription has expired. Pressing Enter after inputting login info instead avoids the error. The not so obvious solution to this is to never click the button in the first place. javascript:ctrEvent('mainForm') and the launcher will crash.

Next, clicking on “Log In” spawns a popup that says A system error has occured: -2147467263. The solution is to edit ~/Documents/My Games/FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn/FFXIV_BOOT.cfg and change the value next to StartupCompleted to 1. This is likely an embarrassing oversight from Square Enix and I’ll forgive them for the time being. The first problem that comes up for me is that the launcher doesn’t actually give me an option to log in with my existing account. After installing the game, I use boot/ffxivboot64.exe to run the launcher.

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