By Sylph.Gaspard 2014-11-07 10:37:06
I actually managed to get Windower back to working after having the windows 8.1 bug! Not an easy task, but just in case, here's the recap.
Was doing Adoulin quest in Khamir Drifts, Breaking The Ice, KI for reives, and it froze on me when switching cutscenes, just blank screen. Loaded up FFXI without windower, as a post found on a forum mentioned, and finished the quest, but Windower would not switch from POL to ffxi after that.
I noticed after I read many of the bugs on the git site for windower, that someone else had the same symptom as me, where when windower launches POL, the icon from pol stays blue, and does not go back to the green mandy icon. Everytime it did that, pol would crash switching to ffxi.
Reinstalled the game, windower, nothing worked. Removed everything, and went hunting in the registry for any keys containing pol.exe, ffxi or playonline, and if it contained a clear indication that it was from the game, deleted that key and it's parent folder in the registry.
Reinstalled from steam, and did updates, and when I launch windower now, it does switch back from pol blue icon when it launches to the green mandy windower one. s soon as I saw that, I hoped it fixed the problem, and after a lengthy update, it did, and back on my main pc with 8.1 and windower 4.
Spent a few days doing all of that work/testing, as I had not updated anything, nor windows, nor gfx drivers, so no updates caused my problems.