Problem With Chat Box..

Since I had to do a system restore on my computer 2 days ago, when I play ffxi and go into the full chatbox mode (using +), it splits my chat and shows stuff from a nyzul isle run I did before the restore, like so



It doesn't do this when I don't use windower, so I was thinking it was a problem with my windower so I deleted it all and reinstalled in..but it's still doing it. Anyone have any solutions? It freezes my game sometimes and just sucks all around because I can't see previous typed pt chat, ls chat, or tells.

I'm planning on just wiping my computer and starting fresh, since the problem probably stems from my computer.

I had a small issue recently where fullsizing my chat log wiped it clean...

I dont know what to say, I mean a clean slate -might- work. But god the reinstall time.... /shootsself

It might be your log files inside the FFXI Folder.

For a Steam Installation it's found under;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ffxi\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI\TEMP\

For a Normal One;
C:\Program Files (x86)\PlayOnline\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI\TEMP\

Clear those files and it should fix itself.

This happens to me sometimes. It may or may not be a Windower bug, but I don't know Windower well enough to make a definitive statement.

Whenever it happens to me, restarting the game at the next convenient time 'fixes' the problem. It doesn't happen near often enough for me to consider wiping my PC or my FFXI install.

I had a problem very very similar to this, turns out it was Spellcast. Unload all plugins and see if it still does it, and if it doesn't reload each plugin on game start to see which one it might be.

Does anyone else here multibox? I notice all of the problems everyone listed and I run up to four accounts. My logs are almost never 'good' and a lot of times the logs get mixed up between the characters (My Nin will see things only my whm would have seen). Personally, I've just accepted it because I've assumed running more than one character was the problem - if not I'd love to hear everyone continue brainstorming.

You can fix this by running each game instance from a separate install but with that comes the need to keep each one updated.

The chat log glitch is annoying particularly when it does the wiping and everytime you expand your log/zone your current seen log cannot be seen until something new pops up. You can miss tells or other data and then have to mess with the filters or wait until you get enough other tells to boot the text to the second page which you can see with the full screen chatlog.

Hmm, I don't have a TEMP folder in there at all.