FFXI Finally In High Quality Graphics

This guide generally works

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/DgVoodoo_Setup_Guide

Dege is constantly updating to fix issues with various old games so it's useful to keep it updated.

https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2/releases

Reshade doesn't work with DX8 so it's not doing anything unless you have some sort of DX8 to 9 or DX8 to 11 proxy library. Ashita has the one Atomos made.

Ah, I thought he took a break, I recall seeing some "drama" where people were using his stuff for some Linux packages but maybe it was more people stepping on his toes or something (I don't remember the details, just ringing a bell somewhere back in my tiny skull)

Edit: It was some Lutris drama: https://github.com/lutris/dgvoodoo2/issues/5

Interesting read. Dege seems very hostile, but I can see why he'd be upset that people are bundling an outdated version of his software. It is frustrating to have a large group of users experience bugs that he's already put work into fixing because of someone redistributing (against license, apparently).

Oh you are trying to do this on Linux, it works but Lutris is just a wrapper for wine / winetricks and it makes some pretty bad assumptions for these older games. I once tried to work with them but they were not very open (that is my putting it politely).

Dege has plainly stated he won't work on Linux bugs because his focus is getting retro games working on modern Windows desktops. I've gotten the newer dgvoodoo libraries to work with my own wine prefix with dxvk / etc.

You need to see the the original comment on Vogons where Dege hangs out.

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=100174

The Lutris devs were going against his express wish's, then blaming him for his project not working with their code. Then a horde of people started yelling at him about why his software wasn't FOSS and why he doesn't support the Linux gaming community. It got super ugly and he just told him to "f off".

windows see it as a virus. any suggestions ?

Get the newer version, I just scanned 2.87 and MS says it's clean. All his versions are good but due to the way he hijacks the function calls MS will sometimes think it's a virus. He will generally delete and repackage those to fix the signature detection.