ACT is the most popular tool in Final Fantasy XIV to track your DPS. This is useful for raiders, in order to know if they are doing their rotation correctly!

As a disclaimer, ACT is a third-party tool, use it at your own risk, check out the FFXIV TOS before installing third-party tools. The goal of this guide is for educational purposes.

How to setup FFXIV so you can install ACT

ACT listen to the local network in broadcast mode. It also needs to detect the FFXIV process, these two things make it a bit tricky to make it run on Linux.

The most straight-forward way to set it up, is to have your own wine prefix for FFXIV, I have a guide on this: how to setup FFXIV on Linux.

On my guide, you should check for the section "Installing FFXIV with Wine", and run the script I have set-up.

The script will give you a clean wine prefix, which defaults to ~/ffxivwine, but if you have changed that path, make sure to find it for the next step.

Installing ACT on a FFXIV wine prefix

Assuming now that you have a wine prefix where you can run FFXIV from, the next part becomes easy.

1. •

   Install ACT, the easiest way is through the zip archive, you can find it at advancedcombattracker.com/download.php. Note: Select the second option, "ZIP Archive".

2. •

   Now run it on the same wine prefix as FFXIV, for example:

export WINEPREFIX=~/ffxivwine
wine "/home/your_username/Downloads/ACTv3/Advanced Combat Tracker.exe"

Replace the path of the .exe with your actual path, and if you changed your wine prefix path, then change that as well.

If you want, make a script with the commands above, save it as a .sh file, give it chmod +x and put it on /usr/local/bin/act for quick usage.

Now you can simply call act and it will launch!

3. •Setup ACT to your liking, this is the same as Windows.

TTS on Linux ACT

If you need accessibility settings, the text-to-speech won't work on Linux by default.

First, we need to install the Linux TTS Plugin.

1. •Go to github.com/Minizbot2012/LinuxTTSPlugin/releases/tag/1.1.0.0
2. •Download the .dll file of the latest release available.
3. •Go to your wine prefix folder, for example ~/ffxivwine
4. •Go to drive_c/users/YOUR USER/AppData/Roaming/Advanced Combat Tracker/Plugins/. Note: replace YOUR USER with the actual user.
5. •Drop the .DLL file you downloaded into the Plugins folder.
6. •Restart ACT, you should be able to see the plugin options in the TTS settings.
7. •On the plugin settings, you can change which TTS program to use, by default it should be espeak. If you are on Debian/Ubuntu you can install it with sudo apt install espeak.

Conclusion

Although a bit more complex than it should be, you should now have a working ACT installation on Linux!

Any questions/improvements bring it up on social media, so the Linux FFXIV community can continue to grow.