search

seathasky / FF14-MAC_ModSupport

Alternative method of running FFXIV on Mac with Mod Support.
98 stars 1 forks source link

Alternate CrossOver movie fix (working movies) #44

Closed reckenrode closed 2 years ago

reckenrode commented 2 years ago

I’ve been running FF XIV under CrossOver 21 for the performance improvements, but I’ve been wondering why the movies don’t work under CrossOver (and vanilla WINE) when they do work on the official Mac client. It turns out the Mac client includes Bink-encoded versions of the movies that aren’t included with the Windows client. If you copy them into movies folder of the Windows client, they work. I expect this also holds true for Proton/WINE under Linux, but I haven’t tested it.

The process just involves downloading the Mac client from https://mac-dl.ffxiv.com/cw/finalfantasyxiv-1.0.5.zip, extracting the movies from it, and copying them into your bottle. I was able to confirm it works by resetting CutsceneMovieOpening to 0, trying to connect to a data center, watching the opening video with Hydaelyn, and then seeing character select screen once it finished.

I put together a shell script to automate downloading the client and extracting the movies to a bottle. It’s available here in a gist.

seathasky commented 2 years ago

Oh wonderful! This is valuable information.

I have not yet looked at your script but does this require the full installation of the game to run? If so, would it be possible to just exclude all other files? Or did I incorrectly read what you meant.

Either way, this is something we could implement in the future, as an option of course.

reckenrode commented 2 years ago

The files are included in the zip as part of the app bundle, so a full installation isn’t necessary (which would just symlink to the files in the app bundle anyway). My script just grabs the zip, extracts the four movie files from it, and copies them into place.

seathasky commented 2 years ago

That's a neat trick. So no need for the cutscene fix. I will have to test this tomorrow as it's getting late, but this would be a great addition to our current script. You should join us in our discord so we can discuss it more.

marzent commented 2 years ago

So I did some testing and while it does alleviate the arr cutscene issues it also causes Dalamud staging to fail injection atm, once Dalamud is able to handle the different memory offsets and you are fine with it we can add it to the guide though!

reckenrode commented 2 years ago

Adding it to the guide would be totally fine. That’s why I made sure to include the MIT license block at the top of the script.

marzent commented 2 years ago

Actually I've had kinda random behaviour concerning Dalamud, I thought it was the blink video at first but now I'm not so sure anymore, will have to do some more testing on this

reckenrode commented 2 years ago

That's a neat trick. So no need for the cutscene fix. I will have to test this tomorrow as it's getting late, but this would be a great addition to our current script. You should join us in our discord so we can discuss it more.

Sure, I hopped on the Discord.

reckenrode commented 2 years ago

@marzent Should I open a PR against marzent/ffxiv-on-mac, or is this outside the scope of your repo?

marzent commented 2 years ago

Feel free to open a PR, am currently working more on the standalone wrapper but that doesn’t mean the CX patcher should be neglected ;)

As a small addition your script currently doesn’t handle non standard install locations very well, maybe it’s better to give it a game folder as argument in case it can’t find a Bottle

seathasky commented 2 years ago

Use the discord #development channel and ping Marzent Nevermind 😁