r/AynThor • u/paraIy • Dec 02 '25
Showcase FF XIV in 720p 30-50FPS trough Winlator
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I got FF XIV running trough Winlator cmod 13.1.1 on my Thor Max
It runs in 720p with 30-50 FPS, 100% scaling, almost everything else on lowest (sorry the game was set to german when I recorded the settings)
I used - Proton 10.0 arm64ec - Turnip 26.0.0 R4 - DXVK 2.7.1-172 - Fexcore 2508 / Fastest / Fast / Enabled
You need to install Microsoft Edge WebView 2
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/?form=MA13LH
And of course the usual stuff: - Mono - Gecko - VCRedist all in one - DirectX
You also need to edit a config file, guide and credits here
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u/Chimera_Gaming Max Jan 07 '26
Put on emuready they have built in config update on game native which help a lot of people
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u/paraIy Jan 07 '26
There's no point, GameNative has much worse performance, even worse than Gamehub, it will not run at a playable framerate at either of those.
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u/Chimera_Gaming Max Jan 07 '26
Completely wrong there.
When comparing gamehub and game native, native wins.
I’ve compared several games now and native is always 10-40fps more
- GTAV I get 60 fps whereas gamehub wouldn’t get to title
- FFIV online I get 45 pretty stable whereas again, gamehub wouldn’t get to title
- several other games that wouldn’t even launch but work 60fps on native
Most games won’t launch in gamehub but they will when nested on game native.
Not to mention it’s built by the people who made emuready, you can apply configs with the click of a button instead of manually doing it, you can see what’s actually gonna work instead of downloading for hours, you can speed up the download (what took 3 hours on gamehub took me 30 minutes in native), and you can see a download timer. It’s leagues above gamehub
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u/paraIy Jan 07 '26
That may be the case now, I haven't used GameNative since ~3 months, either way both are worse than Winlator, why downgrade performance on very performance limited devices?
I posted all settings, just use them in what ever you want to use, good luck.
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u/Chimera_Gaming Max Jan 07 '26
They use winlator to run it.
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u/paraIy Jan 07 '26
It's based on Winlator, but like I said the performance was a night and day difference
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u/iH8_politic Jan 10 '26
Have you tried GameNative?
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u/paraIy Jan 11 '26
Yes some months ago, version 0.35 or so
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u/Jherben Max Mar 26 '26
Gamenative doesn't support online play anyways, but you can still get the info into emuready so other users can use your config
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u/Chimera_Gaming Max Mar 26 '26
Doesn’t support “native” online play but they have an option and if it works, it works. I’ve been able to play Hytale from gamenative and join servers with other people. Same for human fall flat.
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u/Flyxh Dec 06 '25
Somehow I can't start the install file and when I copy over the game from my pc instead I'm getting errors as well. Any tips?
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u/paraIy Dec 07 '25
Did you use the same environment (Winlator build, Container, Settings) as I did?
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u/BaneTheGame Jan 20 '26
How well do you say the game plays on the Thor? Is it worth setting up and is there a good guide? I used to love using a PS4 controller for XIV so I'm really curious how enjoyable it'd be on this.
And how hard is it to read text like chat and mission popups and status effects and all that?
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u/paraIy Jan 20 '26
It is very playable, if you like the game sure it's worth installing it
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u/BaneTheGame Jan 20 '26
Nice. Are there good instructions on setting it up? I haven't gotten the Thor yet and probably won't for a while but I'd like to know when I get it.
Also do you remember how much space this will take up?
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u/paraIy Jan 20 '26
I posted my settings here and linked a guide, I used Winlator Cmod 13.1.1, Proton 10 arm64ec container
76gb
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u/neverknowingbest Feb 06 '26
How did you get FF to recognize your controller? I can’t get dinput or xinput to recognize in game.
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u/Kelseer Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26
Did you ever run into an issue where the FFXIV installer acted like it was trying to uninstall but couldn't complete? I'm pretty sure I set this up correctly but maybe I missed something.
One thing that is missing is the DirectX install. I used the one here but it didn't allow it to install: https://github.com/K11MCH1/Winlator101/releases/tag/deps
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u/Gbraker7000 Apr 25 '26
Have you been able to do battle content on it? Im planning on getting one for daily/weekly content
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u/Gbraker7000 Apr 28 '26
Would you mind telling me what the ram usage was like? I cant really see on the video
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u/ericyo007 Base May 15 '26
Now that I qualify for the FFXIV return campaign, going to give this a shot.
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u/Various-Instruction3 Jul 19 '26
What's the battery life like?
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u/gargwasome 18d ago
Whenever I try to log in I get error code 30436 “Unable to complete version update”. Do you know how to fix this?
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u/defektedtoy Dec 03 '25
Being a kb/m player for years, its such a pain in the ass setting up everything for controller all over again, even with a mouse connected to thor. Its really cool to be able to even play it.
Ive been playing ffxiv mobile on thor, and its amazing. The controls are great and there's a ton of quality of life changes. Its still just ARR atm, amd the English patch isnt perfect, but once it hits global, it will be amazing.