FFXIV Always load in windowed mode

Since the most recent patch, my client opens in a reduced windowed mode, ie, a small window half the size of my screen. This is despite the fact that I have it set as borderless window. So each time I open the client I have to set it to windowed mode then back to borderless. Not a huge issue but certainly a pain in the arse.

Any tips or help would be most welcome.

I have the exact same problem... as is the workaround.
Switch to windowed and back to borderless...

Waiting for a hotfix

Glad I'm not alone - your "workaround" is exactly what I do. Annoying but I'm sure there are greater problems.

Maybe its connected with the directX error when Screensaver activates...
Each time monitor switches off, game will crash!

This is happening to me too. My resolution is 3440x1440. I can switch to either windowed mode or fullscreen, then back to borderless window to resolve it for now though.

I'm having the same issue. More annoying than anything else. :(

Same issue; started with the release of 3.3

So, I'm not the only one having this problem. Quite a bothersome. Hope they fix it.

Problem has been reported and answered by a GM already, issue could be reproduced and therefore passed on to the dev team

I found a permanent fix for my machine.
Start-Up with Dx11.

From the launcher, hit "Config" and there the last option -Dx9/Dx11- switch it to Dx11 (somehow it switched itself to Dx9).
Now game starts again in borderless.

I'm using DX9 (I get horrible framerates in DX11), and here is the hotfix I used to solve the problem:

-Open up FFXIV.cfg (MAKE AN EMERGENCY BACKUP COPY IN CASE YOU MESS UP!!!)
-Scroll down a bit, look under Display Settings
-Check the values for ScreenTop and ScreenLeft
-If either of these two numbers are not 0, change them to such.
-Save the file, reload launcher

Once you do this, it should stay. I haven't had to fix mine since making that edit, and the game loads as it should.

Hello! Also having the same issue, and using the same workaround. I'm on the DX 9 client.

Oh, good! I'm not the only one. I also have it set to Borderless Windowed, yet, whenever it boots up, it seems to be windowed. Switching back and forth between Windowed and Borderless Windowed fixes it, but it's annoying that I have to do it every time.

Just chiming in here - same issue since 3.3, same fix (switching to Windowed, then back to Borderless). A few FC mates have mentioned this as well.

To add a bit more, when I switch to Windowed, my entire game window actually disappears until the setting reverts. Can't alt tab back, nor does clicking the FFXIV icon on taskbar do anything, but when it reverts, I'm in Borderless Windowed until I exit the game again.

Yeah, I'm having the same issue too! hotfix!

Same problem here : ( , wish they could just do an emergency manteinance to do a hotfix, it is kinda annoying x_x

This has been happening to me too since 3.3 hit. Switching to fullscreen and then back to windowed fullscreen seems to fix it, but it reverts back to windowed after logging out and back in again.

Using Windows 7, DirectX 9 mode, GTX 960 graphics card. I have an older monitor, so my max resolution is 1680 x 1050, if that matters.

YAY not just me then lol I have been going through settings and everything lol

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Originally Posted by MeowingKittens

I'm using DX9 (I get horrible framerates in DX11), and here is the hotfix I used to solve the problem:

-Open up FFXIV.cfg (MAKE AN EMERGENCY BACKUP COPY IN CASE YOU MESS UP!!!)
-Scroll down a bit, look under Display Settings
-Check the values for ScreenTop and ScreenLeft
-If either of these two numbers are not 0, change them to such.
-Save the file, reload launcher

Once you do this, it should stay. I haven't had to fix mine since making that edit, and the game loads as it should.

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This alone isn't enough, you also have to set ScreenWidth and ScreenHeight to appropriate values for your display. Apparently the dx9 client now respects these values in borderless mode, but doesn't save them. :/

--Erim Nelhah

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Originally Posted by Erim-Nelhah

This alone isn't enough, you also have to set ScreenWidth and ScreenHeight to appropriate values for your display. Apparently the dx9 client now respects these values in borderless mode, but doesn't save them. :/

--Erim Nelhah

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Can confirm, more is needed than just setting top and left to '0' and setting the width/height to my resolution is a better fix in combination with the 0's

Got same issue since patch and been using the same workaround. Another issue was the full screen mode ignoring the FPS limit. Could set it to 30 cap and it would still play at 60 fps, but last time I checked it's back to normal.

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Originally Posted by Hezkezl

Can confirm, more is needed than just setting top and left to '0' and setting the width/height to my resolution is a better fix in combination with the 0's

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Indeed. Mine was fine originally, so that went unnoticed by me. It wasn't until others began reporting the window size was still incorrect that I realized that and additional edit to the resolution may be necessary in some cases.

Same issue here since the start of 3.3.

Same problem here since 3.3! T__T
I use Dx-9

Having this issue as well since the start of patch 3.3. I use Dx9.0c.

Edit: There is a fix to this that someone posted on Reddit that worked for me. https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._a_halfscreen/

I'm having a similar issue. Ever since 3.3 update, my game opens in windowed mode on my Surface Pro 4, and I have to swap it in and out of that mode. AND it now doesn't scale the game to the screen.

Same issue since the start of 3.3.
A bit annoying as it is. =___=

Just curious I am having the same problem but I have also noticed most of the time when I load with x9 I am getting no sound as well. Sometimes I have sound but most of the time when I click to windowed mode and back to borderless I lose all sound. Even when I load up the game there is no sound. I was just curious if anyone else is also having this issue or if it is just me?

I posted this in the Bug Report section as well, hoping the current maintenance will address it, or that it will be fixed soon otherwise. Glad to know it's not a personal system issue!

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Originally Posted by Game_Over

I posted this in the Bug Report section as well, hoping the current maintenance will address it, or that it will be fixed soon otherwise. Glad to know it's not a personal system issue!

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And it's fixed :D