Windower dead;

[Lordwafik]

archbell's site is dead

[Tymon]

archbell's site is dead

sued perhaps, made them take it down?

it is possible, you know.

[Demetrios]

to the guys geting into ffxi... what screen size settings are you using? did you have any dat mods (darters, etc)? are you using ps2?

[Angelsin]

I keep getting:

Terminated as error occured in FFXI. Failed to instalize Dierct3D....

Can't get past the PLAY screen '-')b

[Tymon]

anyone have a url to the JP windower, I'll test that one.

[MisterBob]

time to buy the 360 version

[sekaran]

800x600, standard settings really.. few dat changes, like my mannequins' faces. No windower is gay. Was watching a movie on my desktop.. wtf.

[Ichthyos]

Hmm, no dat mods here, I load fine w/o Windower.

[Raineh]

This is very wtf, i can log in on a mule fine (jeuno)
But when i try to enter T.Safehold on main i crash...

Someone find a fix, pleaseee

[Alderon]

Getting same thing as angel, can't get past Play, with or without windower

[Maxxthepenguin]

...now this is fucking rediculous

[ertyu]

this is fucking gay. I had to uninstall my FFXI because my update crashed and POL or FFXI wouldnt start again at all, I did. And it tells me to reinstall the expansion (even though I never uninstalled those)

WHen I try to pop the discs in for reinstallation I just get the uninstallation screen. Guess I need to do complete wipe of ffxi on my pc and then complete reinstall?

[worldbfree]

with windower I crashed right after clicking Play.

w/o windower I can log onto any character but a split second later the background goes dark (almost like if I had pressed F11 with windower or something) and then it crashes. Both of these were with characters in the mog house.

I changed the little dats that I had altered back to the original with no result.

[Maxxthepenguin]

Max you could be caught in the middle of a hurricane and still find something positive to say about the situation.-

Not this time, those cumguzzling assmongers disabled the best thing in the game.

[Angelsin]

On SE's FAQ page

When you receive a message saying, "Failed to initialize Direct3D" and cannot proceed to the game, there are several possible causes. Please check the following:

- Make sure that your PC meets the requirement to run FINAL FANTASY XI, especially regarding graphics cards.
- Make sure that DirectX 8.1 is installed properly. If it is installed, run the DirectX Diagnostic Tool (Dxdiag.exe) and check whether all the diagnostic tests run normally. To run the DirectX Diagnostic Tool, launch "dxdiag" from the Start menu's Run dialog box. Select "Start," then "Run," then type "dxdiag" and press the Enter key.
- Update the graphics card driver. To acquire the latest driver software, please contact the manufacturer. Updating the driver is to be done at your own risk.
- Check resident programs running on your PC. Some may affect installation and startup of the PlayOnline Viewer and FINAL FANTASY XI. Try removing some of those programs, then see whether the PlayOnline Viewer and FINAL FANTASY XI run properly.

WHICH DON'T WORK! I dunno know about you guys but I'm very shocked that something SE suggested didn't work. /sarcsim

[Alina]

No DAT mods ever, never used windower, crashes every time my character begins to load.

- _ -

[Elvren]

did you guys update with windower enabled? that 'could' cause problems.. i think it has before.

[Alderon]

Should i just start re-installing everything now?

[Reality]

Should i just start re-installing everything now?

no

i'm working on finding out the culprit

[Alina]

I'm running checks of all of my files. PoL had no problems, doing FFXI now.

This is really retarded.