The same thing is happening to me whenever I run the game on 512 X 512 mode or 1024 X 1024 mode – some POL error occurs after some time but I can play in grainy 256 X 256 mode although its really difficult for me to see any mobs in that resolution. I hear that installing the updated Omega Drivers for ATI may solve this issue – has anyone tried it? By the way I run on a notebook also with Radeon 9200 mobility installed so its supposed to be compatible with the game…

I can log in and play on my laptop, but it crashes to desktop with a POL error after a random amount of time.

My laptop has a Radeon 9600.

Was running FFXI on an IBM A31, sure its not a gaming machine but I have been playing fine until this update. Now it just crashes everytime I try to play. Who do I have to choke?

While I do sympathize with those users who are no longer able to access FFXI due to the graphics updates, I would like to point out that, on the original FFXI box, it states that the minimum requirement for running the game is either a NVIDIA GeForce model or Radeon 9000+ series graphics card. Frankly, they were being generous by including drivers for the lower end graphics cards to begin with. I don't see any reason for them to go through the hassle of updating their system to include cards that were not initially supposed to run the game to begin with.

As I said, I do sympathize with those users who can no longer play because of this, but it was stated, very clearly, in the minimum requirements box, what would be necessary to run this game. So, good luck with your issues, but don't blame Square Enix for your choice to neglect the requirements.

When did Square become so evil? It might just be me but I find something terribly wrong when a company does an update to their game that screws alot of their users out of gameplay. I could have understood if they would have said that the video card issue would be something they'd look into, but when they say they are not going to fix it and get a new video card or cancel, it's basically like telling the consumer to sit on it and rotate.

Sometimes it seems like they're purposely doing updates to ***** over and **** off players. It's bad enough when they gimp jobs but when the system requirements change due to a bad update and they refuse to fix it, it crosses the line.

Oh well. . . I'm a big fan of Square, the Final Fantasy series, and video games of all genres. I guess all I can hope and wait that things will get better. I wish all of you that are still having trouble good luck ^-^

I realize that I probably won't be the last person to post this, but I need to vent. Before the damn July update, my PC version of FFXI was running perfectly fine, running at a crisp resolution of 1024 x 758 texture resolution and 1024 x 1024 overlay resolution. Right after getting the update, I can no longer play at those settings. The game would go past the PlayOnline Version confirmation thingy and right before getting to the FFXI Main Menu (create character, etc), the game would crash, go to my desktop, and then PlayOnline Viewer dialog window said it experienced an error. So I decided to change some of my FFXI config. settings around, but NOTHING works. For example, I changed Screen Size to 800 x 600 texture resolution and 1024 x 1024 overlay texture and I got pretty close to the pre-update screen resolution. However, when I did this, I could play the game for no more than 10 mins and then it would crash and go to my desktop, WITHOUT giving me any kinda POL error message. Like I said before, I tried all combinations of FFXI config. settings and nothing works. FYI, I'm playing FFXI on a Sony Vaio GRV550 laptop with a ATI Mobility Radeon 7500C 32MB Video Card. If anyone else is having problem with their screen resolution, PLEASE post something. Thank you.

I am a technician that works for one of the larger computer companies (I can't say which one to protect my job) and I just had a call from an FFXI player that got directed here by a GM to download updated NIC drivers for their system to resolve this. I do not think it will work because his system was working fine before the update, however just incase everyone here is GM calling on this issue, make sure your NIC drivers are updated before you place the GM call.

And yes, the system was a laptop

Edited, Thu Jul 21 19:57:37 2005

All you laptop players do you use a ps2 style controller? Since you dont have the number pad how do you move your character? (have a laptop thinking of using it for ffxi)ANd if myou do use a ps2 controller does it work the same as ps2 settings? Like if you press R1 or L1 do your macros appear?

Mine does.. can't get into the game more than a minute or so without it saying error occurred with the Playonline. Never had a problem before with my laptop getting into FFXI.. its a Dell Latitude 610 I believe, got a gig of RAM too.. but I'm not sure what video card it uses, but when I get into the game I can see everything.. but then a crash :/

Mine does.. can't get into the game more than a minute or so without it saying error occurred with the Playonline. Never had a problem before with my laptop getting into FFXI.. its a Dell Latitude 610 I believe, got a gig of RAM too.. but I'm not sure what video card it uses, but when I get into the game I can see everything.. but then a crash :/

I use my Dell laptop that i got for christmas last year, its a latitude 610 i believe, and while i can get into the game... after a minute or so it crashes out, saying an error occurred with Playonline. Before this update, my laptop worked FFXI beautifully, sans a bit of lag from dial up internet.. and now i can't hardly get on. Is it the people still downloading? Or is it something else?