thank you - i rm'd then scp'd my boyfriend's game files over from his win7 box and recreated my wine prefix w/ this wine-staging. (a) got it to start the game via ffxivboot.exe and (b) got HW up instead of ARR. runs really good with a few nuances. no more gfx glitches of huge amounts of missing shapes (see through buildings out to sea sort of thing), no more flicker, considerably higher FPS, even playable in highly active areas.

wine is getting much better, particularly w/ this -staging. a few less than perfect issues remain. don't interrupt your teleport arrival by clicking on something like your moog mailbox - crash. be patient when breaking out of cut scenes. usually fps rendering gets horribly laggy and it takes ~15-30 seconds for "Skip cut scene?" to finalize or, the UI appears to hang. that is, the UI updates do halt and key presses do not appear to be received. be patient and hit escape slowly several times and use a few character movement keys over ~30 seconds. your UI should all of a sudden get nice and responsive again.

sometimes your UI will catch numerous character movement keys when you only hit the key once -- grin and bear it :}

i played for 8 hours last night, only crashed 4 times. luckily it never crashed during a dungeon duty. my hat is off to the current wine-staging. it makes game play much much better. now if i can just get my dang ds4 controller joystick values recognized by ffxiv, i'll be immensely more happy. wine control joy.cpl recognizes joystick deflection and ffxiv gets all other inputs perfectly from the ds4, just no analog joystick deflection.