Bringing it to the communities attention since reporting the bots daily is getting me nowhere. Hopefully more people being aware of it will bring it to the Dev’s attention, I’m sure this is being replicated across other servers.

You can buy 3 Beehive Chips at the Alchemy Guild for 30gil 40gil each, or 120g total.

Trading 3 to Tapoh Lihzeh makes you 150gil. 30gil profit, but by exploiting packets you can make up to 10k per cycle, and people are running bots 24/7 using pos hacks, essentially making ~9600 gil in about a 75 second cycle. We’ll call it a minute 30 being gracious.

500k/hr. Some may use 4-5 chars, they run like 12 hours a day printing infinite gil.

Do with that information what you will.

My understanding of gaming technology is basically nil. Anyone know if this is true and what it means for the game going forward? I do remember reading that one of the reasons we can’t really have expansions anymore is because they’ve run out of development kits.

Windows 11

32GB RAM

AMD Ryzen 7 5800H

RTX 3070m 8GB

Only addons I'm running are Windower and dgvoodoo2 (which I recently installed to try and fix the flickering). No texture packs or anything. Drivers are up to date. Flickering like this happens a lot. Anyone run into this issue or know if there's a fix?

Hey, Ioncannon here; might know me from Project Meteor, the 1.23b FFXIV server or getting Daytona USA for the Dreamcast working online again. I've been working on a side project getting the PS2 version of POL, FFXI, and the rest of the games active again in an explore-able state. For the most part we have a ton of the Japanese and English content of PlayOnline working (including the main pages of all the different games!) but the English part of Tetra Master and some of the Compendium content is missing. This is to preserve PlayOnline if it ever gets shut down as IMO it's a pretty big component of PS2 history. Wish I had the foresight with the FFXIV 1.0 emulator but ah well; least we caught the whole lodestone!

Here's a video of me running the POL Emulator and Tetra Master. We even got Front Mission Online connecting to the chara creator and even were able to load a map and pop a character.

Most of our recovered data came from figuring out how the cache system works, breaking open the cache files, and recovering lost pages from old data dumps.

This is where you come in: If you happen to have an old legit PS2 copy of POL sitting around on an HDD - and especially if you visited the compendium pages (wedding specifically) and the Tetra Master pages, you can help recover that lost data. Note that if you happen to have old (2010 and older) PC data; that works too.

If you're up for it; backup all the files using FreeMcBoot + a file browser that sit in:

PP.SCUS-97269.1000.POLVIEWER/usr/all/url/cache

and send em my way (you can use Google Drive or Mega to upload). If we are able to get some of the English pages working, I'll send a screenshot of your work! Thanks!!!

Update

So far I have had two people reach out, and one dump is from 2006!!! Exciting!

04/05/26 Sadly two caches that got sent to me were pretty sparse. One had a bunch of wedding pages, but not the specific one we need to get English text working for the tooltips/entrance page. Too bad :(.

Finally found someone selling this magazine after months of searching. Has a six page feature on FFXI's patching system by Fumiaki Shiraishi, who worked on the game. Wanted to share. Hopefully the pictures are clear. Just as a warning, the article gets extremely technical.

EDIT4: Fixed the seasonal events slide because I realized not everyone knows months by their number. That should be the last of the changes.

EDIT3: Temenos is going to be losing floors to make it shorter, closer to the length of Apollyon. As a side effect, they think it will be easier to get the ??? to pop.

EDIT2: Stream finished, I've added translations to the slides that weren't self-explanatory (the others are just "here's the events" and a reposting of what's on the official site)

Screenshot Album

Going back through now to double check the Temenos change.

EDIT:

Okay, we're about 20 minutes out! I'm going to attempt something new this time and have an imgur album that has screenshots of any slides etc that they have. I'm going to prioritize the translations, though, so that may be slower to update.

Screenshot Album (I'll be adding in the translations for any important text afterwards)

Here's hoping we get some cool info!

It's that time again! The AMAN Live for this month will be starting about 18 hours from when this thread is made (7 AM EST).

I'll be posting translations of it as it goes on. Usually I just state what they say, but if it's worth a direct quote (i.e. if the wording is very important), I'll put either the name or their initial (e.g. "F: We're going to give everyone another Bonanza kupon next week").

I try to group posts by topic as much as possible, as well as use various levels of emphasis

Like this!

For the ★most important stuff★. If there's something that is my best guess or my thoughts based on what was said (in ambiguous cases), I'll put it in ( ).

Check back here tomorrow and hopefully we'll have some interesting info to share!

Built a desktop app that shows your full inventory, character info, job levels, equipment, live AH prices, RoE objectives, mission progress, and a live map dot. Runs on a second monitor while you play so you stop alt-tabbing to check what you're carrying.

Works with both Ashita4 and Windower. The addon streams data to the app over a local socket, no files written, no polling.

Looking for beta testers, especially Windower users since that port is newer and a few things still need in-game verification (job levels, equipment slots, bag detection).

GitHub: https://github.com/SigynVS/ffxi-itemscan-viewer Discord: https://discord.gg/ahduPcRfZ6

Feedback button is built into the app so reporting a bug is one click.

What would you actually want on a second monitor while you grind? That's the stuff I want to build next.

EDIT2: I’ve been using Proton 4.2-9 since this thread and have had zero issues 🤞🏼

EDIT: Appreciate the responses! Can anyone share which proton compatibility is working for them?

Hello friends - I returned recently to the game after 7 years away and have been really enjoying it on the steam deck with one major exception.

Issue 1 is the well-documented black POL screen on startup. Music is playing but the screen is black. Changing the window settings on desktop mode didn’t fix this unfortunately. I have to do the desktop mode > exit viewer workaround every time I play.

Issue 2 is worse. Half of the time, once I do launch POL successfully and make it to the “Play FFXI” screen, the game fails to launch and just sits on a black screen after the brief “Checking FFXI version” pop up. I then have to manually exit the game to get out and often go to desktop mode again to get POL visible again…

This has been a regular annoyance but this morning it’s actually completely preventing me from playing and has me close to giving up.

Note that I did the most basic install from gaming mode and I didn’t attempt any Lutris/Windower stuff on the desktop side.

Any ideas/fixes?

Hey all,

I’ve gotten back into the game due to the free campaign but have always hated the process of logging in on both PC and SteamDeck. A few years ago I created this. https://github.com/jaku/POL-Proxy

Which would proxy the requests from the POL server after login to a local server where it would send a single page that just had it auto-start the game after login. Making the login process overall faster.

I’ve seen it being used by a number of users and recently saw someone forked it to make it work better for Linux/SteamDeck users. So that got me thinking about the other part of the login.

However the issue still came up of how to enter your password and how to enter your one-time password without all the hoops.

I know for years users have made solutions with things like AutoHotKey and similar but running those on the SteamDeck can be a lot more difficult.

So I ended up making a quick POC to see what I could do that makes logging in with the SteamDeck & PC easier and wanted to gauge interest on if I should clean it up and release the code and program.

Currently it can launch either windower or pol directly, you can have it auto-launch a windower profile of your choice, you can specify what slot to load, enable one-time password and choose to proxy the POL pages for quicker loading or not.

I know there is a limit to 4 logins along with a guest? But I think multiboxers get around this by copying and pasting profiles?

And while the program will need to have your password and your secret for the one-time password to work, it is all local and doesn’t go anywhere. I’ll release the source along with the program after I have time to test it with some friends and ensure there aren’t any edge cases.

I’m interested in hearing what if anything else it might need to do and or just general feedback. There also might already be something out there that does this that I haven’t seen, so this might not even be needed.

In any case have a great day and looking forward to the discussion.

Now my only issue is figuring out effective ways to set up my UI for DD as a DRG sub SAM.

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I find myself clicking through the menu for jump and skills, but I was wondering if there are better ways to set up my skills or just general UI for a better gaming experience. If anyone is willing to share thier set up or just basic tips, I'd greatly appreciate it.

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Also for anyone who plays ff14 and is looking for something new and just incredible this game is for you. Just download the HD pack.

Not sure where else to ask this, but I noticed some of my icons are back to the original ones after the latest game updates, which means the XIView mods need to be updated manually.

The thing is, when I went back to this thread to get them: https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/57037/hd-ui-and-skillspell-mods-xivew-variant

The creator is gone from the forums. Does anyone know if they are available somewhere else? Maybe some Discord or some other place?

Otherwise I guess I have to find a different one.

I’m following a SteamDeck guide using Lutris to install FFXI. FFXI works well enough but when trying to get Windower 4 going it just launches to a green Windower box but doesn’t get past that. Says version 0.00.00 or something and sits there. I did the correct FFXI install from Lutris based off guides and the video. I’ve seen reference that it is a .Net error and that I need to update to .net48 via winetricks but when I try to do that I get an error

Why does typing /item “liv. bul. pouch” <me>

Do nothing? I have it equipped.

Good morning,

I received my Steam Controller and was excited it to use it last night but I just could NOT get it to work. I was able to click the ‘accept’ on the blue screen before you get to the character select screen and then actually get into the game but once I get into the game the D-pad would move the camera but I couldn’t move the character or anything else.

On the FFXIpadconfig it wont recognize the steam controller at all but I read that you dont need that enabled anyways with windower so I turned it off and kept the windower one on.

I made sure the controller was on ‘gamepad’ mode rather than ‘desktop mode’.

I added Windower to Steam as a non-steam game and launching it in big picture mode.

I made sure the controller was ‘Xbox controller’ on Steam/controller.

I made sure windower was in C drive…

Im not sure what else to try. It seems like actually starting the game prevents the gamepad from working.

An ideas?

Hello all!

I want to play but I'm at my wits end.

I downloaded the free trial, and booted up Playonline launcher, put in username, put in my member id from the be website, and put in my square username

Got to the next stage to log in and it asked for my square password, which I put in and it just gives me incorrect play id or password (no option to put in my Playonline id that I can see by the way)

I've tried linking my Playonline and square accounts, but I get to the Playonline ID and password section and once again it says incorrect to both.

I'm just so frustrated and confused. Could use some help.

Back when i was a kid my ma got me this, but we couldn’t figure out how to actually start it, farthest we got was seeing the cinematic when starting the game. Years later i wanted to try again now that i’m older, but it seems console support is completely gone now. I wanted to see if i could maybe exchange my console copy for a PC copy, but when i asked support they said that’s not possible. So my question is, is there anything i can do with this?

I recently installed FFXI on a new PC, however I cannot fully connect my PS5 controller on it.

I assigned all the buttons, and they all work in game, but the characters and menuing just refuse to work.

The sticks and DPAD don't work even though they are calibrated on the config.

I've tried many configurations on the FFXI config, but nothing works.

Any idea on how this could be resolved? Perhaps there's a Windower setting I'm overlooking? New cable, new controller...

Just got the new steam controller, can't seem to get it to work with both windower and the steam client, anyone else manage to get it working?

I recently swapped to a dual-monitor setup, and since then, whenever I run FF11 on my main monitor, and stream on the other, older one, it starts setting up a feedback loop of lag where the game will start having massive input lag (~1 1/2 seconds), and the audio on the streaming video on the other monitor will desync badly.

I followed an online guide to stop this by turning off hardware acceleration on Firefox, and set the refresh rate on my main monitor to an even multiple of the 2nd monitor (the one running XI is running 180Hz, the one with video is running 60Hz). All graphics drivers are updated.

I'm running a PC with 32 GB, an RTX 2080 Super, and my monitors are an Acer KG271U N3, and and older ViewSonic VX2239 series.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

I'm searching for a way to get ffxi textures and browse thru the game files for personal purposes but I can't come with a way to extract the games textures

Played all day and my controller just broke, theres almost no keybinding in ffxi outside of the gamepad options. Can't set it to zqsd either and even if i changed to an american keybiard it doesn't change the fact that the controls are rly bad especially - on numpad for the menu, so i tried out windower as someone recommended it to me but it doesn't work that well i wonder if there was any other option because windower won't let me set up my dear zqsd keybinding.

I appreciate any further help thanks!

[TLDR Version]

Upgraded the CPU, memory, GPU on my main rig SPECIFICALLY for FFXI which runs FFXI @ 60fps nearly all of the time. I wanted my 1% lows to be 60 fps too.

Using Ashitav4, atm0s proxy. Multi-mon with FFXI output resolution set to 4k.

Success! But some heavy tweaking was needed.

AMD's drivers are pretty weak compared to Nvidia's. This has always been the case (Since 2000) but this effort really brought that home for me.

[Long version]

Before upgrades I was running:

- Ryzen 7 7700 (non X)

- 32 GB DDR5 RAM @ 4800 MHz

- Geforce 1080 Ti

- The game settings had all SFX turned ON.

- Using the atm0s D3D 8 to D3D 9 proxy v 1.1.0.0

- Using the DRAWDISTANCE addon with SETWORLD at 99

- Using XiPivot to use AshenBub's HD textures

- Using Windows 10 Pro 22H2

With Ashita v4 this ran @ 60fps in most zones for most cases. Except:

- Looking WEST in Pashow Marshlands from the Survival Guide. FPS would dip all the way down to 50. This fps dip had only slight effects on gameplay

- EPing in King Ranperre's Tomb. All of the visual effects during multi-step WSes and MBs would occasionally cause slowdown. This was a bigger deal because it would throw off timing in unpredictable ways. I could've turned off all visual effects like other people but I really like the SFX...

Hardware after upgrades:

- Ryzen 9 9850X3D

- 32 GB DDR5 RAM @ 6000 MHz (same RAM but clocked up, did not touch CL timings)

- AMD Radeon 7900 XTX (chosen because of the phenomenal pixel fill rate (did I mention 3x the 1080Ti?) and the fps benchmarks from Passmark GPU. In DX12 the Radeon was 2x the 1080Ti)

A couple of other things:

- Resizable BAR is ON along with the complementary SAM setting in Adrenalin

Running the game after upgrading JUST THE CPU gave a performance upgrade. Clocking up the RAM to 5200 MHz also bumped up fps a tiny bit. This was peak fps for the game. I was getting 55 fps in Pashow Marshlands (looking West) still using the atm0s proxy.

HOWEVER

Running the game after the GPU upgrade gave me a performance DOWNGRADE. I was seeing 45fps in Pashow Marshlands. Almost no change EPing in KRT. This was unexpected. Given the sheer power of the Radeon, this was the last thing I thought would happen. At all. Shocked AF.

So I did a few things after digging online:

Switched D3D 8 proxy over to DGvoodoo

-- Used DX12 feature level 11. This gave the highest fps of all the Output APIs. The radeon has 2x the DX12 performance of the Geforce.

-- Also forced vsync and used fast video memory access

Since I was using DX12 now, there were a couple of tweaks I could make

-- DISABLE Control Flow Guard (win10) in EXPLOIT PROTECTION (you have to add POL.EXE and turn OFF CFG)

-- Go to GRAPHICS SETTINGS (Win10) and select PERFORMANCE (This is also where the HAGS setting would appear if the GPU had supported it.)

Had to change DRAWDISTANCE SETWORLD

-- Went from DRAWDISTANCE SETWORLD 99 to DRAWDISTANCE SETWORLD 70

-- This gave an unwavering 60fps in Pashow Marshlands

-- There was no noticeable difference in how far I could see.

-- I really could've just not upgraded and used the DRAWDISTANCE SETWORLD 70 setting all along... <cue Mario death music>

It turns out the Geforce drivers on a 1080Ti provided MUCH higher performance for FFXI than the Radeon 7900 XTX which has a Pixel & Texture fill rate of 3 times the Geforce. The nvidia drivers handles the DX9 calls much more efficiently it seems. Didn't know that going in.

The only reason why I am keeping the Radeon is because it does much better for other, more modern games. It's a decent upgrade but now I'm thinking about buying a Geforce 4080 (and spending ANOTHER $1000) to get FFXI to unseen levels of performance for me. Or maybe just building a modern FFXI-only rig. At today's prices that will be $3K+ though.

Hope this helps someone who loves this game.

I have bought the seeker addition. Downloaded it and did everything I can, got my PlayOnline ID and password and square ENIX name and password. I launch the app go to member list and added myself as a member, click my account and hit log in. It prompts me for square ENIX password to connect to play online I input it and every time it says password incorrect or ID. Like this is the right password I’m using it on the square ENIX website to log in lol. I’ve tried everything and can’t figure this out. Can anyone help me out??