Windower 4 - Discussion and Support

**Sechs** · 2014-09-01 01:56

Did you update the luacore? That was an issue we got yesterday for a few hours until Arcon came back and released a new luacore.

**Sithel** · 2014-09-01 02:00

Had the Luacore update along with some addons when I relogged tonight. Went in to salvage, forgot i didn't have Timers loaded. Loaded Timers and POL crashed, lost that run

I was on smn if that's of any help.

**Arcon** · 2014-09-01 02:55

Originally Posted by Mafai

It's bidder buy i think? or do they both work? I would try //bidder buy "snoworb stone +1" 0 3000

"buy", "bid" and "placebid" should all be the same according to the code. But whatever, seems to be solved now

**Draylo** · 2014-09-01 02:56

Originally Posted by Sechs

Did you update the luacore? That was an issue we got yesterday for a few hours until Arcon came back and released a new luacore.

It was happening before that issue yesterday.

**Maurauc** · 2014-09-01 05:11

Originally Posted by Malithar

Both of these work, thanks much. ^^/ Bid, buy, close enough Arcon, thanks regardless for making Windower awesome.

As an aside, is there any technical reason why SE's AH system is so slow to place bids, while this completes a purchase within 1 second? Or is this a "just cause" kinda thing, like how they said on the oforums that equipset swaps happen as fast as possible currently?

Bids actually do complete fairly quickly, but they placed an artificial limitation on the bidding to stop people buying the AH out almost instantly. You can see this in effect if you buy something and immediately back out of the AH after you place the bid.
It can be a useful trick if you know your bid will succeed, but you'll feel a bit of an idiot if you have to go back through the menus to try buying it again.

**Subadai** · 2014-09-01 22:32

Got 2 crashes this weekend with Timers 09 on live, here are the crash dumps. They're the same small sized dumps as before, so probably not useful, but I've uploaded them anyway, just in case. I ran for many hours without Timers and didn't crash (several days worth of playing), so I think the crash is still related to Timers somehow. I was on BLM/SCH doing Ra'Kaznar skirmish. One of the crashes happened when I had a ton of buffs up, including a couple I cast on other people. I think I will play around with blacklisting or the max number of buffs displayed and see if I can find a set of steps to reproduce the crash every time.

Edit: I can also get some hours in on dev if that would be useful.

**Arcon** · 2014-09-02 00:15

Dev and live are currently the same, so that's not necessary. These dumps really aren't helpful and I have no idea why they're this screwed up. Are you sure you're using the /ma option?

If you're on Windows Vista or newer, try the following:
Start > regedit > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > Windows Error Reporting

Create a new key called "LocalDumps". If it already exists, don't bother.

Now run FFXI without WinDbg attached and wait for it to crash. A crash dump should appear in your %LocalAppData%/CrashDumps folder (usually Drive:/Users/YourUserName/AppData/Local/CrashDumps/). See if that dump is any better.

**Sechs** · 2014-09-02 01:03

Yeah crashed a few times with Timers as well on BRD. With timers unloaded I went on for several days without any single crash.
I asked about the strange dumps on this MSDN developer board, can find my post HERE but alas no help =/

**Mafai** · 2014-09-02 01:05

Originally Posted by Sechs

Yeah crashed a few times with Timers as well on BRD. With timers unloaded I went on for several days without any single crash.
I asked about the strange dumps on this MSDN developer board, can find my post HERE but alas no help =/

I think Arcon is playing with those registry keys as we speak, he likely will be releasing an enable / disable .reg file. It also maybe possible to limit it to just pol crashes instead of system wide.

**Subadai** · 2014-09-02 01:49

Originally Posted by Arcon

Dev and live are currently the same, so that's not necessary. These dumps really aren't helpful and I have no idea why they're this screwed up. Are you sure you're using the /ma option?

No, sorry, was using /m. Submitted some dumps with /ma earlier but I thought it was said that they didn't help, so went back to /m. I will use /ma from now on unless instructed.

If you're on Windows Vista or newer, try the following:
Start > regedit > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > Windows Error Reporting

Create a new key called "LocalDumps". If it already exists, don't bother.

Now run FFXI without WinDbg attached and wait for it to crash. A crash dump should appear in your %LocalAppData%/CrashDumps folder (usually Drive:/Users/YourUserName/AppData/Local/CrashDumps/). See if that dump is any better.

I will try this and report back. Also, something that maybe was forgotten or never mentioned, when these crashes occur, the normal Windows 7 crash dialog doesn't appear at all. FFXI just exits to the desktop. Maybe that's why the dumps are borked?

**Sechs** · 2014-09-02 02:57

Yes, same experience for me about the Windows thing you mentioned.
Whereas if I don't use the WinDBG I normally (but not *always* though, I think?) I get a Win7 window from where I can see more (useless) details about the crash.

Any way we can set the default folder for these Windows dumps on a different drive? Don't wanna fill my already overfilled SSD.

**Arcon** · 2014-09-02 03:13

Originally Posted by Sechs

Any way we can set the default folder for these Windows dumps on a different drive? Don't wanna fill my already overfilled SSD.

Yes, you need to add the "DumpFolder" string value to the LocalDumps key, and the value should be the new path.

**Arcon** · 2014-09-02 03:15

Also, as for the hard disk space issues, you can add the DumpCount value which indicates how many dumps it should save before overwriting old dumps. If you set it to 1 it will only save the latest dump.

**Trumpy** · 2014-09-02 05:57

Looks like they are addin /itemsearch command to the game. findall will still be superior of course. Wonder what other plugins/addons they will add next

**Sechs** · 2014-09-02 06:00

C'mon subadai don't leave us hanging! I'm at work! Let us know if these crashdumps work!
Hope they do, so I can provide some meaningful dumps once I get back home.

**Arcon** · 2014-09-02 06:08

Originally Posted by Sechs

C'mon subadai don't leave us hanging! I'm at work! Let us know if these crashdumps work!
Hope they do, so I can provide some meaningful dumps once I get back home.

These crash dumps worked for another player who was having your issue, so I'm hopeful.

**Arcon** · 2014-09-02 06:09

Originally Posted by Trumpy

Looks like they are addin /itemsearch command to the game. findall will still be superior of course. Wonder what other plugins/addons they will add next

I doubt they'll make it show other characters, mog slips or allow wildcard search.

**Sechs** · 2014-09-02 07:00

Arcon either way I guess at this point we can kinda uninstall Windows SDKs from our PC since they don't work for us anyway, correct? (yes, I'm being anal about freeing up precious space on my SSD

)
Really really hope I can finally provide you guys some material to be working on <3

**Sechs** · 2014-09-02 14:30

My dumps came out as ~22 mb each.
Gonna share as soon as I'm done uploading them ^^

Edit:
Here it is, third file "WindowsLocalDumps.zip".
Tell me if you guys can make anything out of it, currently playing without windower 'cause I'm doing LS event.

**Motenten** · 2014-09-02 15:23

Sechs: Can you provide a list of all Lua addons you have loaded?

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