Carbuncle.Galmaximas said:
»it crashes at the accept/decline portion
At the blue "Accept/Decline Screen" or
before it actually loads up (meaning after you hit "Play" in playonline)?
If you never get to see the Accept/Decline option, then Bruno (above) is most-likely correct:
there's a bug in some instances with Windows 8 that if you ran it with Windower, then tried to run it with vanilla POL anytime after that, you would be unable to run it with Windower again from thereon. When does it crash? It would boot up PlayOnline with Windower, but as soon as FFXI opens after hitting "Play" then it would crash. Only solution was to reformat.
Not sure if this is the case with 10.
Only change I would make to what Bruno said is that a person can actually boot up vanilla if they have win8 and then boot up windower. I had to do it myself for the addon scenario missions to get past some CS's. However, if you crash due to a direct drive (?) error, it does seem that booting up vanilla does something irreversible (at least for now) and the only option is a reformat.
Hope you get it resolved.