Windower

[azagarth]

I have been a ps2 player for 4-5 yrs now lol... but have been playing a lot more now on laptop, I have never used nor know where to get windower. I would like to get that but I do not know where to look exactly lol.

Is there some place that its free to download? I know with all the acct hackings its dangerous to DL it from unknown people, so was hoping some one on BG has a link for a safe windower.

Also is there somewhere to read up the basics of what all windower has to offer and how to work it? I'm wanting to post pics and stuff too and told this program allows you to do that too. Oh last question, does it really have unlimited macro space? i currently have to use two sets of macros for WS alone;;

[Epical]

www.windower.net

All the information you need is on that site.

[mallister]

www.windower.net

if you're really looking into maximizing your macro experience, check out the SpellCast plugin. it does take some reading and experimenting with it to get it to work but it's the best damn thing since sliced bread. enjoy!

[Thistle]

Googling "windower ffxi" will give you the official site as the first result.

http://www.windower.net/

Check their FAQs, forums, and wiki on how to use everything.

[Freijah]

.net is the proper URL, I'm not sure if there's any spoofs or whatever at .com or otherwise, but windower.net is legit.

[azagarth]

thanks ;D got it running and perfect day to start reading up on how to work it lol, got a lot of free time with maint. and it being my day off.

[azagarth]

oh hey one more question, i noticed there is a few parse programs, which do you all like? I am not very computer savy so simplicity would be nice, please kept that in mind.

[Epical]

Historically, DvsParse (now called DirectParse) has been the most popular, but there are a few ones out there. I don't think it has been updated since the last patch, though. KParser is newer and apparently is decent, but I haven't used it yet myself. There's also Tazzy's, but I have no idea regarding the status on that.

[Massimo]

DirectParse works fine for me. Just update the memlocs.

In case you didn't: Open DvsConf.txt, and replace the old line with "MEMLOC=0x575968"

Should fix it.

[Militant]

On a somewhat related note has anyone had issues with expwatch that comes bundled with the latest version of windower? always gives me a pol error if i boot from console... put it in the init.ini?

[nekura]

On a somewhat related note has anyone had issues with expwatch that comes bundled with the latest version of windower? always gives me a pol error if i boot from console... put it in the init.ini?

That will just make you crash even faster.

I'm not sure what version is packed with Windower at the moment, but chances are it's an outdated one. Grab the latest version from here.

Also, seconding the Spellcast love, it's an amazing plugin once you get everything setup properly.

[azagarth]

ok I cant get things like xpwatch to work.... For some odd reason its trying to open everything in abdobe lmao, what should it be opening it up in?

[nekura]

ok I cant get things like xpwatch to work.... For some odd reason its trying to open everything in abdobe lmao, what should it be opening it up in?

Put the plugins into the Windower plugin folder, then in FFXI type //load [plugin name here], ie //load expwatch

[azagarth]

ya did that and it dc me, now wont let me log in, is this a common problem or do i have something wrong with my windower?

[nekura]

ya did that and it dc me, now wont let me log in, is this a common problem or do i have something wrong with my windower?

Get the newest version of ExpWatch, I linked it in another post in this thread. I'm 99.9% certain that the copy of ExpWatch you got with Windower was outdated, thus causing it to crash.

[azagarth]

still no luck.... cant get expwatch (the new one) and plasticsurgeon to work..... i think the problem lies in the init file, all you do is where the other load programs are add say. load plasticsurgeon, right? or am i missing something.

[nekura]

still no luck.... cant get expwatch (the new one) and plasticsurgeon to work..... i think the problem lies in the init file, all you do is where the other load programs are add say. load plasticsurgeon, right? or am i missing something.

Yeah, that's all you have to do. Are you sure it's those plugins causing the issue for you? Distance was broken at one point too.

[Tajin]

first try to make them work without autoloading them.
Also I think you cant autoload expwatch, but my memory about the latest notes fails me.

[azagarth]

well my distance, and the side bar abilities tracker are working, along with the time next to text in game, can even take pics fine. i really cant figure it out lol, but on good note, now it just says "failed to load plugin; unknown error 193" or close to that, instead of just dcing me before i can even log in since i replace the expwatch dll.

would it be helpful if i copied the script here for you? maybe im doing one little thing wrong.

[Amele]

yeah it'd be helpful if you copied it out to us here.


on expwatch - make sure you got the 2.0+ version and not the old 0.96. 2.0 is in beta so it may be unstable but I haven't had problems yet (beyond it missing some old favorites of mine like ETL and KTL). and the chain timers are wrong (chains are actually based on mob level; the timers are based on player level.) but that's not what we really care about anyway, right?