Windower 4 - Discussion and Support

[Fake]

I'm encountering an odd error:

I run 3-4 instances at any given time, but on my main character, and my main character only, after 1-2 hours, my console window will "disappear" and i'll get partial lines of text. The cursor to designate the input line will appear but only half the line above that, and nothing at all above that half line.

Also the info bar partially disappears at the top and bottom. from what i can tell they all things aren't inhbited by the graphical glitch but it's quite annoying when it virtually destroy's the functionality of the info bars lol.

Anyway was curious if this was known

This is the same issue I mentioned on the previous page except that it happens to me on all my chars. It hasn't happened since I updated to new hook today but I haven't really left my MH yet.

[spider123]

Anyone having an issue where loading a second instance of W4 will lock the character in the "Downloading Data" Screen? New hook, all plugins loaded. Unloaded every single plugin, and it logged in finally. But it's going to take forever to see if it's one of them, or some combination of such.

Halp!

Edit: Relevant info. Win7 x64, no super resolution or bump mapping on.

[Kirona]

I was streaming on Twitch last night, Windower4. No real issues (aside from a crash the first time around, both XSplit and Windower died).

I'm trying to use Open Broadcaster Software and it Crashes to Desktop whenever I hit the "preview stream" button.

It works fine with other games, and with FFXI when I don't have windower open.

Edit: Decided to suffer through some crashes to test it. Turns out Windower really doesn't like "Game" Capture, but its fine with Software Capture in Open Broadcaster Software.

[Arcon]

Anyone having an issue where loading a second instance of W4 will lock the character in the "Downloading Data" Screen? New hook, all plugins loaded. Unloaded every single plugin, and it logged in finally. But it's going to take forever to see if it's one of them, or some combination of such.

This same bug has been happening for a while, and even without any Windower at all. The only way I know to fix it is to just wait for a while, that always seemed to help. Or let someone else log in and zone you out (or do it yourself on a different machine), then you can normally log in again, but you still have to avoid that zone. The error seems to be localized to that character (not account) and that zone. Of course there's still a possibility this is something else, but it does fit the pattern.

[grevenilvec75]

anyone else having strange mouse issues with Windower4? I've tried hardware mouse both enabled and disabled, but ffxi window won't recognize my mouse either way. Did I fuck up some other setting or something?

I'll give that a shot, thanks!

EDIT: Didn't work ;_;

Hard to explain. The mouse just doesnt work at all, which is fine for in-game because i don't play with the mouse, but it's not letting me click and drag the window around and trying to maximize or minimize using the butons in the top right corner causes the game to half-freeze. It eventaully works in the end, but it's a huge pain in the ass and i'm told that it makes my character red-dot, which could cause probllems in the future.

Only started once I installed windower4, and even going back to the previous version of windower it does it now too. Makes me think it's a setting somewhere that's fucked up.

Didnt get any answers in RQT so figured i'd put it here. I'm not sure it's a w4 problem, but upgrading to w4 caused it!

[Darkmagi]

Any idea what would cause a partial sound effect loss? Friend isn't hearing any sound effects besides ambient. Was working fine until they installed windower4.

[Stromgarde]

Gearcollector is weirding out and missing a ton of stuff, including but not limited to: Drachenhorn, Phorcys Salade, and Lancer's Plackart +2.

Edit: Found out where I screwed up. I forgot to edit the gearcollector.xml file in the Windower4/plugins/setting folder to enable satchel and sack.

[Khamsin]

I switched over to Windower 4 with Adoulin, but for some reason it keeps resetting my overlay resolution, texture compression, etc. If I go into either the registry or the FFXI Config tool and set my background/overlay resolution, texture compression, and all that, then launch FFXI with Windower 4, and go back afterward to check the settings, they'll revert again.

Any way to fix this?

[Byrthnoth]

Yeah, create a profile in the Launcher that has the values you want, I think?

[Taim Meich]

When I shut down the game, it closes normally but then I always get a POL crash error. /logout doesn't give me an error, but trying to push "back" to go to POL does, and /shutdown always causes the error.

Since I'm pretty sure this is related to W4... Is there a way to shut it down before shutting down the game itself? I'm pretty sure this was mentioned before, but I can't find it anywhere.

[Obsidian]

Yeah, create a profile in the Launcher that has the values you want, I think?

I don't think this solves the weird texture compression thing though? I dunno, I tried creating a new profile but I'm still getting this weird jaggy thing going on with avatars, and I don't even have supersampling on. You can see it on the right side of Garuda here.



I also experience crashing whenever I quit the game. No idea what's causing it.

[Suteru]

It's because Windower4 thinks we're stupid and does the graphics for us without giving us an option for the more detailed settings. It gets a lot of things right, but it also gets a few things really shitty which ruin the whole thing.

(Windower devs, I love what you do, but for the love of god put finer graphics options)

[Darkmagi]

^this so much, I need the ability to make my graphics horrible so I can play without FPS Problems.

[Draylo]

It's the terrible default to "game_forceambientlight 1" in the init.txt. Change it to 0 and lighting should be back to normal.

Hm doesn't seem to work for me.. Changed it to 0 and the lighting still only lights up objects/characters.

[Kincard]

It's because Windower4 thinks we're stupid and does the graphics for us without giving us an option for the more detailed settings. It gets a lot of things right, but it also gets a few things really shitty which ruin the whole thing.

(Windower devs, I love what you do, but for the love of god put finer graphics options)

You can change it in the settings file if you want. The on/off switch basically sets it to 2 or 1, so it makes it either 2x or 1x your selected screen resolution. I went and edited it and made it x0.5 for one of my profiles if I need the graphics to look bad.

Hm doesn't seem to work for me.. Changed it to 0 and the lighting still only lights up objects/characters.

Try pressing F11 ingame, that's the toggle for it.

[Draylo]

Yeah I know that lol, I'm saying when I toggle it on it just lights up characters and objects.

[tdh004]

I'm having a possible SpellCast issue, that I'm not sure is related to Windower 4 or something else entirely.

I just received an Orunmila's torque and attempted to add it into my existing - and working - Fast Cast set.

<set name="FastCast">
	<body>Nuevo coselete</body>
	<legs>Enif Cosciales</legs>
	<neck>Orunmila's Torque</neck>
	<rear>Loquac. Earring</rear>
	<lring>Prolix ring</lring>
</set>

The rules all appear to run, and if this set is called on it puts on everything but the Orunmila's torque. I checked the resources file and copied the spelling straight form there, I even created a set with only this item in it and it still will not equip.

I'm not receiving any error messages upon reloading SpellCast. Everything still works, just not this one piece of gear. Has anybody else run into a situation like this, or can advise me on where to look for a solution?

[Suteru]

Yeah I know that lol, I'm saying when I toggle it on it just lights up characters and objects.

That only works with bump mapping off if you want the ambient light.

[Draylo]

That only works with bump mapping off if you want the ambient light.

Ah okay, thanks.

[Radec]

I'm having a possible SpellCast issue, that I'm not sure is related to Windower 4 or something else entirely.

I just received an Orunmila's torque and attempted to add it into my existing - and working - Fast Cast set.

<set name="FastCast">
	<body>Nuevo coselete</body>
	<legs>Enif Cosciales</legs>
	<neck>Orunmila's Torque</neck>
	<rear>Loquac. Earring</rear>
	<lring>Prolix ring</lring>
</set>

The rules all appear to run, and if this set is called on it puts on everything but the Orunmila's torque. I checked the resources file and copied the spelling straight form there, I even created a set with only this item in it and it still will not equip.

I'm not receiving any error messages upon reloading SpellCast. Everything still works, just not this one piece of gear. Has anybody else run into a situation like this, or can advise me on where to look for a solution?

Are you editing the file in your old folder for 3.4?