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
Edit: 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 fuck 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
Edit: 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 =/