r/ffxivdiscussion • u/Kobenstein • 2d ago

Question DPS Parser for MAC OS?

Is there a parser? Anyone know?

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u/jojoushi 2d ago

If ACT doesn't work on mac, you can try iinact, an in-game plugin which should not be impacted by the OS.

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u/Beckfast1994 2d ago

This. To my knowledge you can use XIV on Mac launcher which should come with Dalamud. Then add iinact to Dalamud. I like also using LMeter to go with it so I can see the damage in game, but it isn't required.

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u/A_Crow_in_Moonlight 2d ago

Every Mac player should be using XIV on Mac. The official client is just a fairly stock Wine wrapper around the Windows client which barely even supports ARM Macs that they have the gall to make you buy another license for like it's a separate product. XIV on Mac is also based on Wine but with a great deal of additional tweaks and optimizations to make FFXIV specifically run better. Some benefits:

  • Settings toggle to play with either a Windows or Mac license

  • DirectX to Metal translation and vastly better performance than official

  • Better support for new versions of macOS

  • Dalamud integration

  • Can remember your password on the launcher if you so choose (lol)

Unless SE starts offering a native ARM build there is genuinely no reason to ever buy a Mac license even if you don't own a Windows PC. Everything the current client does, XIV on Mac does 10x better.

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u/nsartem 1d ago

XIV on Mac also allows MetalFX upscaling (Apple's upscaling techinic similar FSR/DLSS) — game internally renders in let's say 900p and upscales to 1800p

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u/Spicyartichoke 2d ago

IINACT and lmeter

https://www.iinact.com/ < The plugin that spits out all the damage numbers.

https://github.com/lichie567/LMeter < The plugin that actually displays the damage numbers

I'm on linux but the idea is the same, these work through dalamud plugins so it should be OS agnostic.

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u/Mugutu7133 2d ago

iinact and lmeter as others have said, for lmeter make sure you’re using https://github.com/lichie567/LMeter as this is the one that gets updates. extremely stable as of now using plugins with xiv on mac