Hi there! I'm sorry I know this thread is a bit old, I seem to be having the same issue as a person had about 3 years ago. These are the steps I have done/ whats going on if it helps.
1) Project in subfolders (tried a couple locations)
2) "allow to write script from network" and java debug on
3) AE as an admin
4) Scriptui has all files
5) it creates the bat file in program data
6) I did the output module loading aom file
7) it opens with the window warning of the possible crashing, etc, opens render que with avi (I have not rendered yet otherwise) and nothing happens it seems. I have a performance overlay, the CPU and GPU stay at 0-3%, occasionally the gpu spikes a little but I dont think its from gifsquid.
Its so strange because I have previously had a few machines, it worked on all of them from windows to mac, i remember having an issue one time a year ago but I somehow fixed it.
My specs:
GIFsquid v0.8
AE CC newest version I think
Win 10 Home / Version 2004 / OS 19041.928
I feel like I heard something about AE actually being able to export gifs now so im going to check that out, I just loved being able to specify everything and keep it around a specific size.
Anyway, thanks for making this!