Support AMD Hackintoshes by custom solution / guide

[PSzczepanski1996]

So, the AMD Hackintoshes lacks somewhere ability for 32-bit code execution, and because of this the 32-bit parts of CrossOver are not working (it just crashes). Despite that, FF XIV native macOS client is running just fine, so it probably uses ONLY 64-bit code.

So, when you want to use FF14-MAC_ModSupport it will crash at same beginning of modding the client, because fonts installer in Windows are 32-bit based. I would really appreciate writing script/describing method that overrides current FF XIV client e.g. updating MoltenVK & CrossOver parts without the need to mess with CrossOver at all.

AMD-OSX/bugtracker#6

[seathasky]

Not sure you were asking me to write you a guide or you wanted to write one. either way, here is how:

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Find your "FINAL FANTASY XIV ONLINE" folder. By default, Square Enix's installer should put it in Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/

(if you cant find the library folder, press cmd + shift + [.] to show hidden folders while in the user directory)

When you get in the directory, it should look like this:

Download the latest DXVK release from https://github.com/marzent/dxvk/releases
unzip the folder, you should see a dxvk .dlls. use the x64 ones

Open "windows/system32 and copy and overwrite the dlls into that folder.
That will update dxvk.

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For moltenvk,

right click and show package contents on the FFXIV app in your applications folder

Open contents and locate the lib64 folder here:

Unzip the latest macos_dxvk_patched.tar.xz from the releases here: https://github.com/Gcenx/MoltenVK/releases

copy and overwrite the libMoltenVK.dylib into the lib64 folder.

Profit.

Good luck!

[PSzczepanski1996]

I were asking you to write the guide. Anyway, thanks very much! I will respond today how much performance improved on my AMD Hack.

I don't close issue for now without testing if that works.

I want to ask another question, does performance differ from CrossOver releases? I know that FF XIV ShadowBringers is based on CX20.

[seathasky]

Yes, the performance should be different in cx21 due to wine also being updated in Crossover.
You will most likely have a better experience through Crossover but this should help the default client a little bit either way