Originally Posted by
AkirraKrylon
Posted this on the ffxiah forums as well. Hopefully someone has seen this issue or knows how to go about rectifying it.
"First off thanks for coming into this thread at all! :D
I'll try to keep this as much to the point as possible. I've read a million other threads/posts from google searches and cannot get FFXI to work with windower no matter what I do. Windowed mode, full screen mode, borderless window, a ton of different resolutions and settings. It just refuses to launch with Windower.
Surface Pro 4
Windows 10
FFXI works perfectly fine with vanilla POL/FFXI
FFXI works perfectly fine with Ashita.
PoL launches fine with Windower
FFXI crashes on the transition from PoL to FFXI with Windower. Every single damn time -.- /rage
PoL "closes" like it normally does, the window that FFXI would presumably be in opens but before any image or anything loads it closes and it throws a "PlayOnline Viewer has stopped working" generic error.
Tried looking at log files but nothing seems to make sense. A lot of the posts I have found say that some Windows 10 environments "just don't work with Windower/FFXI" but that just sounds like "who the *** knows".
Ashita is fine as an alternative but I always preferred Windower to be quite honest.
If anyone can help, I'd be forever in your debt! /bow
DirectPlay is enabled and all that jazz. Tried the run as admin/set compatibility mode to windows 8/7/vista. Tried literally every variation of settings but nothing =/"
Edit:
From the windows Event Viewer:
Faulting application name: pol.exe, version: 1.18.13.0, time stamp: 0x4e3bcddc
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000
Faulting process id: 0x610
Faulting application start time: 0x01d1d7bdccdb999f
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\PlayOnline\SquareEnix\PlayOnlineViewer\pol.e xe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: c65d5e6a-a9a2-431a-933c-7ccc24f256e7
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-07-06T19:38:08.071714200Z" />
<EventRecordID>14411</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>pol.exe</Data>
<Data>1.18.13.0</Data>
<Data>4e3bcddc</Data>
<Data>unknown</Data>
<Data>0.0.0.0</Data>
<Data>00000000</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>00000000</Data>
<Data>610</Data>
<Data>01d1d7bdccdb999f</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\PlayOnline\SquareEnix\PlayOnlineViewer\pol.e xe</Data>
<Data>unknown</Data>
<Data>c65d5e6a-a9a2-431a-933c-7ccc24f256e7</Data>
<Data />
<Data />
</EventData>
</Event>