"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>