Discord won't detect Final Fantasy XIV

Hi there. Not sure if this is the right place, so please redirect me if necessary.

For a while now, FFXIV hasn't been showing up under my Game Activity in Discord. While this isn't a major issue, other players on Discord are displaying FFXIV in thier Game Activity and I am constantly irritated by this as I do not know what the cause is.

I would appreciate any insights to this; either from other users of Discord or a member of the FFXIV dev team.

As a side note, FFXIV does not appear under Game Capture but Window Capture in streaming software. Again, nothing major, this just caused me to be confused for half a second.

Hmm, in Discord settings, did you set under 'User Settings' and 'Game Activity', the slider to the right for 'Show currently running game as status message'? Did you also try manually detecting the game while running it? (FFXIV or any game actually has to be open and running for this to work, it won't work if you simply have the game installed but not currently running.).

Someone else probably knows more as I'm still a novice when it comes to running Discord.

Yes. I have the slider toggled (blue) but the main issue is that XIV isn't automatically detected and isn't available from the dropdown when I try to add it.

You would be better off contacting Discord support since it's an issue with their app, not with FFXIV.

Mine is tracking it literally as I write this post. It's something going on on your end.

At a guess you're running Final Fantasy XIV with elevated administrator permissions (this also happens automatically everytime there's an update, until you restart) and Discord isn't running elevated so it can't hook into it.

Basically change XIV so it doesn't run with elevated permissions because aside from patching it doesn't need them. You could also run Discord with elevated permissions as well, but that's not recommended or necessary if you can fix XIV's launching. If you use the Steam version it might be as far back as you're running Steam elevated (really bad idea!) and then everything that launches in term is also elevated.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Unfortunately, I have changed FFXIV so that it doesn't run as administrator and this doesn't allow it to appear in my 'Currently Playing' list. I have contacted Discord about it but they don't seem to be able to help much in this case. P.S I am using the Windows version, not Steam.

It might be worth pointing out that my streaming software (Streamlabs OBS) will not detect FFXIV using Game Capture. I use Window Capture instead when streaming FFXIV.

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Originally Posted by Tyverus

It might be worth pointing out that my streaming software (Streamlabs OBS) will not detect FFXIV using Game Capture. I use Window Capture instead when streaming FFXIV.

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Are you running FF as an administrator? This can keep some apps from getting access to it, such as streaming software, the steam overlay, and so on.

Do you have a personalized message set? That replaces game activity display.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

Are you running FF as an administrator? This can keep some apps from getting access to it, such as streaming software, the steam overlay, and so on.

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Run both FF and Discord as admins. It's also worth noting that Discord has been (atleast among my group of friends) buggy as hell lately where itll drop sound all together on occassion when running FFXIV or other online games. Not sure if anyone else has been getting buggy issues like this, but yeah, I dont think it's isolated based on what Ive been seeing.

Hi

It's been a while since I updated this, apologies for that.

I don't beleive this is a Discord issue as, FFXIV is stil not displayed (even when one or both applications are ran as admin) also, FFXIV does not display correctly when I use 'Came Capture' in my streaming software, I have to select it through 'Window Capture'

Again, this is very confusing to me, as oonly myself and a handful of other people are having this issue.

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Originally Posted by Tyverus

Hi

It's been a while since I updated this, apologies for that.

I don't beleive this is a Discord issue as, FFXIV is stil not displayed (even when one or both applications are ran as admin) also, FFXIV does not display correctly when I use 'Came Capture' in my streaming software, I have to select it through 'Window Capture'

Again, this is very confusing to me, as oonly myself and a handful of other people are having this issue.

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It is a Discord issue, since FFXIV does not have any built-in support for Discord and is not responsible for Discord working correctly.

Also doesn't show for me either, but it has previously months ago. I don't really use discord so I never really cared. I did try removing all the previously active listings of FFXIV in the game activity list, and then after try re-adding but there was nothing

This has been happening to me for a couple of months now.. I've kindof given up. I've tried googling everything, tried the administrator thing, nothing works.

Discord shows literally everything else i open as my Now Playing (Even photoshop..) But it doesnt acknowledge FFXIV at all for me.

Same here...I've pretty much given up trying to get the overlay to work or for it to display as the game I'm currently playing. My other friends status do change to "playing FF14" so I might just reinstall discord. But overlay not working for sure which sucks cuz I hate alt tabbing

It usually don't activate for me unless both the game and discord run in administrator mode.

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Originally Posted by MistakeNot

It is a Discord issue, since FFXIV does not have any built-in support for Discord and is not responsible for Discord working correctly.

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Originally Posted by Tyverus

Hi

It's been a while since I updated this, apologies for that.

I don't beleive this is a Discord issue as, FFXIV is stil not displayed (even when one or both applications are ran as admin) also, FFXIV does not display correctly when I use 'Came Capture' in my streaming software, I have to select it through 'Window Capture'

Again, this is very confusing to me, as oonly myself and a handful of other people are having this issue.

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Time to clear some things up and add some to the staple:

It is an FFXIV issue.
I have an even higher issue than Tyverus. Even Windows won't detect FFXIV. It is only visible in the Taskmanager. Sound Manager? Nothing. Discord? Nothing.
Tried either and both as Admin.
Reinstalled both and nothing.

OBS? Detects only per Window Capture. Windows recording method do not even detect FFXIV in any way.

Discord is started with user permissions and can even hook to programs and games started with admin privileges.

Had this issue on 2 windows installation on 2 different pc's. One time i managed to fix it, but who knows if it was the Direct X packages from older games that fixed it or some windows update that broke it?

Square Enix is not very helpful on the matter either, a support ticket will be closed within a week of following the premade sheet of instructions on what to do, failing to actually address the issue.
Tho, with the new problem i found with even windows failing to detect ffxiv after two clean installs it may be worth a new shot.

TL;DR:

It is not a Discord issue. The fault lies somewhere on ffxiv.

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Originally Posted by Wolfyl

It is not a Discord issue. The fault lies somewhere on ffxiv.

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If the problem was with FFXIV, no player's Discord would display when they were playing FFXIV. My Discord right now shows I am playing FFXIV. Clearly it is being detected.

Sounds more like there's some setting on some app on your computer that has been changed to block communication between FFXIV and Discord. SE can't be held responsible for that.

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Originally Posted by Wolfyl

It is not a Discord issue. The fault lies somewhere on ffxiv.

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It is not a fault with FFXIV, since FFXIV is not designed to work with Discord. Square Enix is not responsible for getting FFXIV to work correctly with Discord, and if any change to FFXIV prevents Discord from finding FFXIV, that is not an issue the FFXIV developers are responsible for taking care of.

In short, getting Discord to work fine with FFXIV is 100% the responsibility of the Discord developers.

Happened to me recently as well.

I've always had the Streamlabs OBS issue -- you can only capture it via Window Capture (despite some other recording software treating it normally). Up until recently FFXIV showed up in Discord just fine -- but now it's nowhere to be seen in Discord no matter what I do.

I got in touch with the SLOBS team a long time ago about how FFXIV doesn't get detected normally and nothing they suggested works. I understand Square aren't keen (nor responsible) for compatability with external software but it is the one and only game/application than has always been awkward in that manner. I wouldn't mind the window-capture side of things, apart from the fact that it generally performs worse than Game Capture (FPS wise).

Software like Mirillis Action! can capture it fine but isn't as flexible as far as streaming goes.

Either way, just posting to say that others here aren't going insane. It's a common problem.

Hi, I know it's been many years, but just in case someone is looking for this,

I might have two solutions for Windows version:

1. Rename your computer / username and then reboot (You can change back if you want afterward)
2. Create a new account for your computer (You can delete it if you want afterward)

Either one should be useful, hope these could help.

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Originally Posted by Luna_Lumenia

Hi, I know it's been many years, but just in case someone is looking for this,

I might have two solutions for Windows version:

1. Rename your computer / username and then reboot (You can change back if you want afterward)
2. Create a new account for your computer (You can delete it if you want afterward)

Either one should be useful, hope these could help.

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Thank you so much, was driving me nuts. First I've noticed that Logitech G Hub not switching to FFXIVs profile automatically, while other games / applications worked fine. Further poking also revealed Discord not "seeing" FFXIV.

In my case renaming my computer / rebooting solved it - as I've also managed to name the computer the same as my user. Not sure if that's what was causing the issue but in hindsight the issue might have started at the time I've named the computer the same as my user.

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Originally Posted by Luna_Lumenia

Hi, I know it's been many years, but just in case someone is looking for this,

I might have two solutions for Windows version:

1. Rename your computer / username and then reboot (You can change back if you want afterward)
2. Create a new account for your computer (You can delete it if you want afterward)

Either one should be useful, hope these could help.

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I was literally trying to figure this out for the past 2 years at least, i cant believe it was this simple lol.

Thank you for taking the time to post this solution. Changing computer name literally fixed it for me.

@ Luna_Lumenia
Hello! I wanted to jump on here, and say a huge thank you for this solution!
I got a new PC recently, and FFXIV not loading on my Discord was driving me crazy like others have said. I could not understand why my old HP OMEN gaming laptop would work fine, and then as soon as I swapped it would not show. Tried every solution, and even had someone on Reddit helping me out, so your post really helped!

Like others, renaming my PC solved the issue.