Hi there. I decided to creep back into xi after a hiatus since late August (can you guess, why?). Anyway, when i went to start up xi via Windower 4, some things went awry. FYI I am running windows 8.
- Windower updated as it should.
- After logging in and pressing play, I get a generic "This program stopped working" window, I click OK, and Windower closes.
- I try to boot the game up without Windower. The first time I did, I got a message in POL that FFXI terminated because Direct 3d could not initialize.
- I read through an old forum that said to set config res to 1024 X 1024 and boot up normally. This worked for PoL without windower.
- When I went back to windower 4, however, there was no change.
- I was not able to replicate the direct 3d message and every time I go to start ffxi through vanilla PoL, it starts right up now.
- I try all sorts of resolution settings (not including 1024X1024 because it won't let me in Windower GUI), but I keep getting the crash between PoL and FFXI.
- I try the same on the developer build, with the same results
Since my hiatus, I got a new graphics card, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, and have kept drivers up to date. Otherwise I am using the same system.
Any ideas? Need anything form me to help? Thanks in advance for your time and devotion to this project.
-Divinian
Edit - After playing around some more, I found that whenever I try to load FFXI using windower (and it subsequently crashes) and then check ffxi config again, it is reset to the lowest resolutions (background and overlay) and, maybe more importantly, there is no menu res selected (---). Also, I can replicate the direct 3d error message (termination of normal PoL upon startup of ffxi) if I do so after trying windower and not changing anything in ffxi config.
It seems like Windower is trying to change the registry, but is not doing it correctly, which is causing a crash, but that's just my interpretation of things.
Edit 2 - Just adding other stuff I've done for good measure, such as installing a new nvidia update, fiddling with the compatability settings, going in to the registry and manually making sure that menu res is set to something between letting windower launch PoL and the launch of ffxi. I even made sure the secure boot option was turned off and probably some other things, lol. My gut feeling now is that some setting in my computer is not allowing windower to hook properly, but again, that's only my interpretation of things.
Anyway, I am done for the night. Sorry for the long post, but I know information can be important in these matters. Thanks again.