Windower Won't Start! - Windower V4.3 And The Creators Update

In your Windower settings XML find your profile you're using, it should be at the bottom.

Mine for example is,
<profile name="">
<consolekey>Insert</consolekey>
<width>1920</width>
<height>1080</height>
<gamma>0.06086956</gamma>
<uiscale>1.1</uiscale>
<supersampling>2</supersampling>
</profile>

So copy that and edit it to your setting but do not touch the Windower gui because mine would just reset itself back to 0. Hope this helps.

Had switched back to 4.2 for a few days, now trying -dev again at 4.3.0.5, seems timestamp is doing some funky stuff.
Extra lines, only from other player input and system messages, with 2nd line indented about 2 characters before the timestamp.

I have this too XD

The Timestamp issue should be fixed.

I use 2 screens to 2box and have an addon loading at start for 2nd account that simply sends a command to the plugin wincontrole to reposition this window. This now instantly crashes the game. The plugin itself loads with no errors.

edit
Having to manually toggle window frame on, move the window and toggle fullscreen back on.

edit 2,
also having keyboard issue where macro bar stays open when alt + tab to another window

I have a issue when ever I start windower the banner loads fine but windower itself is a blank white screen. Anyone have a fix, brand new laptop been sitting collecting dust since Christmas.

Sounds like this issue. More here.

I tried that but it still doesn't work :(

What's the eta for 4.3 wide release since creator's update is rolling out slowly and will probably affect all of us?

Has anyone experienced their macros being deleted? I've noticed it on two of my characters both happened to be my WHM macros, but it wouldn't be the whole book, just a line. Re-logging didn't recover them so I had to load old macro sets.

Well, Windower doesn't touch the USER directory (at all, to my knowledge), which contains all your character-specific config., including macros. There are some odd cases in which specific crashes prevent certain or all macros from loading properly. I've only had this happen with full books or the entirety of my macros, personally.

Also, you can still lose recently written macros if they aren't "saved" by either switching books or logging off.

I see. It's very strange, it's not like they were new macros I've had them a long time.

FFXI occasionally corrupts itself. Reasons unclear, but probably unrelated to windower.


Maybe tomorrow. As far as we know, all the crashes have been killed. I think we're waiting to add a gamepad/audio focus setting to the launcher so people stop asking about it.

Also: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/04/25/windows-10-creators-update-rollout-first-phase-update/#c3M7UgU8Q7ubsrJi.97

Looks like Microsoft is intentionally rolling out the Creators Update slowly.

I wasn't sure because it's only started happening since using the development build so I figured I'd say something just in case. It's happened again today, always seems to be Book 1 - Page 2 that's deleting.

This has been completed and these options are now available on the -dev launcher, by the way. Sound default is enabled, whereas gamepad default is disabled out of focus (multibox issues otherwise).

Anyway, barring anything unexpected and major, tomorrow sounds appropriate.

I just went ahead and switched it over. Live and dev are now running the same launcher and hook.

Crashing instantly for me now... Win10 Pro 32bit ; ;#

Downloaded clean version and used installer, same result after updating.

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[ 4.3.6326.31342 ] 2017-04-27 22:09:44.2317174 UTC
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System.FormatException: Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument list.
at System.Text.StringBuilder.AppendFormatHelper(IFormatProvider provider, String format, ParamsArray args)
at System.String.FormatHelper(IFormatProvider provider, String format, ParamsArray args)
at System.String.Format(IFormatProvider provider, String format, Object[] args)
at Launcher.Profile.Apply(RegistryKey key)
at Launcher.Profile.Apply()
at Launcher.PlayOnlineLauncher.Launch(String hook, Profile profile, Boolean debug, TimeSpan timeout)
at Launcher.Tasks.LaunchTask.Run()
at Launcher.Tasks.Task.Run(Core core)
at Launcher.Core.Run()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
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Sorry about that. :( Would you be able to provide a crash dump?

Updated post. Had to get a clean install on to be sure.

Thanks in advance.

Crashing for me instantly aswell and I'm on Win7 64bit. Worked fine earlier today.
https://a.uguu.se/EvUxqhPzwaGs_pol.exe.6468.dmp

http://update.windower.net/dev/Windower.exe

My windower is still crashing when I try yo launch it, even after I clicked the link above. Help please!

Dev build runs :D

Fast work guys, thanks.

Are you still getting this crash? I pushed a quick patch, my apologies for the mess up. :(

Nope, it's still crashing instantly on me ><

Same problem as Drittzz. And something is messed up with borderless windows mode. It always forced fullscreen mode when loading and hence any alt-tabbing will result ina freeze then crash. Console command window_togglefullscreen didnt work.

Windows 10 64-bit, I have now reverted back to pre -"creators update" but am getting constant Instant crash from windower->pol

Is Windower.exe actually crashing for you, or does it get to POL and then that crashes? Crash dumps would be much appreciated.

Don't think crash is related to creator's update, not rolled out for me yet and still had random crash.

Downloading the linked dev build and copying it over the installed executable fixed my problem though.

My symptoms were that windower never reached POL, literally choosing profile and clicking to launch triggered instant fail.

I tried copying over the executable Dev link into my folder that has windower.exe in it, and it still instantly crashes on me. How do I get you a crash dump?

Found it....

[ 4.3.6326.32989 ] 2017-04-27 23:07:23.4055969 UTC
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System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
at System.Array.InternalGetReference(Void* elemRef, Int32 rank, Int32* pIndices)
at System.Array.SetValue(Object value, Int32 index)
at Launcher.Profile.Apply(RegistryKey key)
at Launcher.Profile.Apply()
at Launcher.PlayOnlineLauncher.Launch(String hook, Profile profile, Boolean debug, TimeSpan timeout)
at Launcher.Tasks.LaunchTask.Run()
at Launcher.Tasks.Task.Run(Core core)
at Launcher.Core.Run()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()