Ok. Sorry it's been a long time before replying. I downloaded the skin again from Deviantart today and it seems to be working ok now. When i first load it,it takes maybe 1.5 - 2 minutes to load & show up. But i have other skins that do that as well. So i looked at the log and this Warning message keeps showing up:
Speech.dll: Invalid Name, Gender and/or Index. Using best matching valid voice. (TextClock6\TextClock6Color.ini - [SpeechHost]) So I looked through my c:\users\Documents\Rainmeter folder and found that i have 3 speech.dll files in there. So i deleted one and now i have two left that are
File Version: 2.4.0.0 / Product Version: 4.2.0.3111 . One is 32-it, the other 64-bit. They're both in the @Vault\Plugins folder for the Rainmeter folder that's in Documents with all the skins. And the Rainmeter log is still showing the same
Warning as above. So, i have the last, like, 7 logs from debug mode saved if you wanna see those. But like i said, the skin seems to be working fine otherwise. It talks & everything.
I hope this is enough information to help you figure out what's up with this or what i need to do different. Thanks.
UPDATE: about 2 hours later.... It happened again. I just went and deleted every copy of speech.dll that i could find on my computer -there were 5- and deleted the TextClock6 .rmskin & the folder with the .ini's & all that and just downloaded it again brand new from Deviantart after deleting all the other speech plugins and it happened again. Rainmeter crashed and it won't start unless i delete the TextClock6 skin altogether from my computer. I tried restarting my computer, i shut it down completely and turned it back on again - nothin'. I even went and downloaded the newest Rainemeter beta thinking that might help but, no. It still did the same thing after installing. I don't understand what's going on at all anymore.
UPDATE2: Oh crap! hey, sorry that i forgot to actually answer the questions you asked me in your post.
First, other .rmskins install & run fine for me. Second:
Rainmeter 4.4.0.3404 beta (64-bit)
Language: English (1033)
Build time: 2020-08-25 8:09:50
Commit Hash: a0c762cf
Windows 10 Home 2004 64-bit (build 19041) - English (1033)
Path: C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\
SkinPath: C:\Users\jakem\OneDrive\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\
SettingsPath: C:\Users\jakem\AppData\Roaming\Rainmeter\
IniFile: C:\Users\jakem\AppData\Roaming\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.ini
Hope that helps.