By Shiva.Thorny 2026-07-10 12:19:53
When windower and other tools broke frequently, it was because exact offsets were used to locate memory structures. Current approaches rely on better reverse engineering and typically match a pattern near code that references the location from there.
A simple analogy would be 'the second paragraph on page 125 of the book' vs 'Look up the page chapter 8 starts at and skip forward 1 paragraph from there'. The former changes if the font size, foreward, margins, page size, etc.. are altered a little bit. The latter is pretty resilient unless the table of contents or chapter layout is altered.
By my estimation, there's never been any intentional breaking of Windower. It's just a byproduct of maintaining their own code.