Quick story. As the newer and newer versions of Tixati have been coming out, I have been having more and more freezes and crashes, as other people have I've dug up around the web. With the latest alpha 2.44a6, tixati was dead hanging several times per day on my seedboxes. Seeing only a couple other complaints on the forums about what could possibly be this, I was scratching my head. Did some talking with another person having the same freezes. After some experimentation, found the culprit, which isn't Tixati at all.

There's a replacement FreeType font renderer for Windows (7-8-10) that gives beauitful customizable linux/mac style font rendering to Windows (MacTypeInstaller_2013_1231_0.exe if anyone was wondering, as the developer has abandoned the project). This was causing hangs in the event handler for GTK, causing the freezes. As newer tixati versions would come out, GTK reliance was increasing, causing more and more freezes. As it's a common install on all of my windows machines, never thought anything of it.

To keep using MacType alongside Tixati safely, there is a .ini for the preset you picked (or created) in the /program files (x86)/MacType/ini folder. In this .ini is a  section. Add a tixati.exe line. Now Tixati will run with the default system renderer, solving all the freezing issues (while still allowing the rest of the OS to be enhanced). Might as well add virtualbox.exe as well, as virtualbox won't spawn virtual machines with it applied to itself, though it can be used just fine installed within the virtual machines.

As alot of people with window boxes use MacType to make using windows visually tolerable, this is a solution that has solved all problems thus far for 3 people I can confirm. As there is probly others out there who will encounter this, maybe a warning could be popped up in tixati if a "MacType" folder is found in either the program files 32/64 folders, warning that MacType causes problems or something.

Just wanted to let you guys know, as this has been a ongoing frustration for me for a while now.