Windower 4 - Discussion and Support

[Sithel]

Since the update the bind plugin working correctly? Some binds works while others do not. Like this is not working anymore.
//bind f9 /ws Tachi: Fudo <t>

I had this bind in my gearswap and it worked before. I also tried to bind f9 with gearswap not loaded and the same result.

[Trumpy]

Did you guys push the dev version of timers to the real version of windower yet (or if it wasnt timers, whatever the issue was)? Cause i crash at least once a dynamis, delve, skirmish. Sometimes more and so i have just unloaded it til there is something new. Since unloading it I have yet to crash though it is definitely a pain now that i have gotten so used to using timers. Im not really sure what is causing the crash as half the time i am just walkin to another mob or camp when it happens, so it might be when the timer would be flashing cause it is hittin 0 like mentioned before. But i am rarely looking at the timer at the exact second it happens so i couldnt be sure.

Just wondering cause it seemed like there was talk about releasing the dev version to the real windower before the update, and then since the update with all the problems it caused I am not sure what has happened on the timers front. I just remember reading that we may have gotten some helpful crash dumps and not much since. Thank you guys for all your work!

[Sechs]

It was an issue in the text renderer. So an external component to Timers.
Times makes extensive use of that function, especially on jobs like Bard.

No clue if it has been pushed live yet, since I had those versions already and haven't crashed since then.

[Mafai]

It is on live. Are you crashing to desktop or getting a pol error?

[Sechs]

Speak of the devil... just had a crash but no clue what caused it.
I was casting Curaga II on myself when it happened.
Can find a dump called Dump 18-09 in my usual shared GoogleDrive folder.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?...&usp=drive_web

[Trumpy]

I will have to load it to see what the dialogue box says next time i crash but usually the screen freezes and a error box pops up which makes my controller not work on my other character (nor the ffxi instance that crashed) until i close this box. when i click ok in that box the ffxi instance disappears and i can use my other ffxi running. Another wierd thing is when this happens if u hover the mouse pointer over the ffxi window with the problem the mouse pointer disappears so sometimes getting it over the error box is frustrating. Sometimes when ffxi crashes it jsut disappears without an error box but i think all of these crashes have popped a error box up. I guess you would call that crashing to the desktop (i dont play full screen)?

I have installed that dumpsetup file but there is no folder called dumps in my windower folder (does it have to create a dump to create the folder) Either way i dont think it is makin a dump file.

Also this happens when i am RNg or THF and my mule on rdm or whm so far. It happens to either of them as well, though more often the whm|rdm.

[Mafai]

Crash to desktop is the errorless crashes, ffxi just disappears.

Normal crashes (with a popup) will create crash dumps. It is much easier now if you follow this guide.

https://github.com/Windower/Issues/w...ic-crash-dumps

[Trumpy]

I have done the one you just linked when Arcon or whoever first posted it. It however hasnt made a dump folder or made any dumps that i can find. Does it not make the folder until a crash happens that it works for?

Also is it possible to set up any of the dump makin programs to work with 2 instances of ffxi? aka im dual boxing?

Also usin the windbg method it says start up pol thru the launcher. When you attach to process do you do this at the green launcher, the screen where i pick my playonline account, or when i am in the game at the main menu before i choose my character?

[Arcon]

Speak of the devil... just had a crash but no clue what caused it.
I was casting Curaga II on myself when it happened.
Can find a dump called Dump 18-09 in my usual shared GoogleDrive folder.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?...&usp=drive_web

This one is unrelated. It's either GW or IPC related, but hard to tell from that dump :\

I have done the one you just linked when Arcon or whoever first posted it. It however hasnt made a dump folder or made any dumps that i can find. Does it not make the folder until a crash happens that it works for?

It should create the folder automatically when a crash happens. However, you can try to create the folder manually and see if that helps. I only tried this method a few times myself.

Also is it possible to set up any of the dump makin programs to work with 2 instances of ffxi? aka im dual boxing?

They both work with any amount of FFXI instances.

Also usin the windbg method it says start up pol thru the launcher. When you attach to process do you do this at the green launcher, the screen where i pick my playonline account, or when i am in the game at the main menu before i choose my character?

POL or FFXI both work, but not during Windower launch. It's per-process, and you want to get pol.exe (which contains both POL and FFXI), not Windower.exe (which contains only the green/white Windower launcher).

[Trumpy]

Ok just to be sure, im runnin WinDbg and when i started up my mules ffxi it didnt show anything in the dump window, but everything including chat is being shown from the main ffxi (first launched). Just want to make sure i am doin it right as its my mule is the one that crashes a lot of the time.

[Trumpy]

Not sure what caused it as i was doin logins on mules but i noticed a error from the previous mule in the console.

Shortcuts: Lua error (runtime) blahblah...addons/shortcuts/targets.lua:57: invalid pattern capture

Not sure what this is from i dont recall targettin anything nor doin any kind of action.

[Arcon]

Ok just to be sure, im runnin WinDbg and when i started up my mules ffxi it didnt show anything in the dump window, but everything including chat is being shown from the main ffxi (first launched). Just want to make sure i am doin it right as its my mule is the one that crashes a lot of the time.

If you use the WinDbg method, you will need two WinDbg instances and attach one to each process. That's why you should use the other method if it works for you. I'm still trying to figure out why it doesn't for some people.

[Sechs]

This one is unrelated. It's either GW or IPC related, but hard to tell from that dump :\

99% sure GW wasn't loaded up.
It's literally the first crash I get in like, 2 weeks? I kinda jinxed myself with that reply to Trumpy haha

[Draylo]

I still crash two~three times on startup where it gets to the login screen and all the plugins load. No idea which plugin it is, but I can't disable them one at a time and check because after two tries it works with the same plugins being attempted to load.

[Trumpy]

Got a crash. FFXI seemed to just disappear and the winDbg was flashin in my task bar. No error boxes or Hanging with winDbg attached.

da dump

[Arcon]

I figured out why the other crash dump method doesn't work right for some people. I'll try to adjust it in a bit.

[Sechs]

Is there any other solution (other than putting a "timestamp color X" line in the init file) to fix the default Timestamp color which got borked by the last SE patch?

[Arcon]

Use the addon version.

[Trumpy]

Wasnt there a site where we could see what got updated recently? For example Launcher updated some things just now but i didnt catch what they were.

[Arcon]

For plugins:
https://github.com/Windower/Issues/b...r/ChangeLog.md

For addons:
https://github.com/Windower/Lua/commits/4.1-dev

Note that both of those are for the dev branch and may be ahead of what's currently live. For addons, this is a history of live changes:
https://github.com/Windower/Lua/commits/4.1

For resources, this is the changelog:
https://github.com/Windower/Resources/commits/master