Banned for Windower?

[Byrth]

Actually, I think the number would be closer to 90% of the PC users use windower, so about 90% of the American PC users would be closer to that figure.

I think this is overinflated. I'd believe that 90% of the players that go to forums (including this one) and are likely to reply to a "Do you use Windower" poll "Yes," but Windower makes it easier much to find and respond to such a poll.

I think I list the most reputable NA/JP windower study here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...ll=1#post61492

[Cowardlybabooon]

I may be wrong about the se widower, but I think the biggest advantage to the unofficial one is the ability to run two instances of ffxi on the same machine. If people needed two comps to two box that would suck.

[wildsprite]

most people I know use windower to allow them to play at the resolution of their monitor or TV if they have one hooked up, the resolutions in the settings are rather lacking

[Korpg]

A lot of people use windower, nobody wants to admit it because that is almost the same as going to the police and telling them that you are an avid speeder.

[Seyrena]

I don't use Windower. But if I did, and I have been considering it, I would use only the ViewDistance and TimeStamp plugins, to increase my view distance to render the entire zone for aesthetic effect, and see what time exactly a message arrives in my chat box. At the moment, I just edit the registry values to make FFXI render the background resolution at 1680x1680 instead of 1024x1024. http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Graphics

[Juilan]

The way I see it is, most of the advantages to windower, if you want to call them that, are things that make the game more convient and not as focus. Or better yet let it be a background application while you're doing a million other things on the computer. The computer is far too power to just run FFXI, even with the windowed mode (which has lagged every computer I tried it on) doesn't compare. If SE would give me native settings to my resolution for my 42 inch tv where i can force the background higher than the display to give me crisper graphics then I'd stop using it. Other than that I see no reason to use other than the multiple macros to show /recast for everything I use on multiple jobs... though seriously 3 macros requires for doing a ws and then three macros to go back into TP gear...

ps: Darkshade you kick ass

[Seyrena]

If SE would give me native settings to my resolution for my 42 inch tv where i can force the background higher than the display to give me crisper graphics then I'd stop using it.

See my post. It's just above yours.

[Sealdorie]

Seeing the tp of party members, mp of alliance members, how long your buffs have been up, the distance you are from a target, how much xp you're getting per hour, screen-shots of the chat log with a nifty organized folder system (date/time/zone) are all aspects of windower and its plugins that I see to be harmless to others but convenient for use.

[Fiarlia]

Actually for those who want to edit registry settings without using regedit or windower gui can download the FFXI calculator. It's free (google it), comes with various other very useful parts and allows you to apply settings to the registry with simple clicks to match your desktop resolution.

[Eric]

Actually for those who want to edit registry settings without using regedit or windower gui can download the FFXI calculator. It's free (google it), comes with various other very useful parts and allows you to apply settings to the registry with simple clicks to match your desktop resolution.

It's still a 3rd-party program, therefore just as illegal as windower.