Alt+Tab

I know this seems small and perhaps unimportant but being able to minimize the game screen to do other tasks would be great.

There is a windowed mode you can use?

It would however be nice to minimize full screen without it crashing, I use two monitors and it would be nice to have the game exclusively on one of them, in full screen mode.

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Originally Posted by Deo

There is a windowed mode you can use?

It would however be nice to minimize full screen without it crashing, I use two monitors and it would be nice to have the game exclusively on one of them, in full screen mode.

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I want two screens. Sounds like a great way to play :D

I don't like windowed mode. Lot's of people don't. lol

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Originally Posted by SirOleas

I know this seems small and perhaps unimportant but being able to minimize the game screen to do other tasks would be great.

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/support

Yes, please! :D

But... It's a great way to close the game.

Whenever I don't feel like waiting to shut down I'll just alt+tab :P

Yes please. I prefer playing games in fullscreen mode, but not at the cost of knowing if I accidentally hit alt+tab (something I've done repeatedly while trying to hit my IME hotkeys) I will instantly crash the game and fail any levequests I'm on. I have multiple computers, but being able to look up things on a single computer while playing in fullscreen is kind of standard. The windowed mode also has worse performance ingame, and considering what a resource hog this game is it needs every drop it can get.

Really, this is a standard feature in any game that's been made in the past 5 years at least, I was honestly shocked when FF14 hadn't solved the problem that FFXI players have been rightfully complaining about for years.

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Originally Posted by Deo

There is a windowed mode you can use?

It would however be nice to minimize full screen without it crashing, I use two monitors and it would be nice to have the game exclusively on one of them, in full screen mode.

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Window mode is not a solution, we need to be able to have actual fullscreen and be able to alt tab

I agree. I think the argument for not being able to do so, to be really ridiculous.

Windowed sucks -.-;

During beta and a little after release there was a program that let you go fullscreen and alt tab, unfortunately SE sent them a cease and desist letter which forced the author to remove it.

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Originally Posted by SirOleas

I know this seems small and perhaps unimportant but being able to minimize the game screen to do other tasks would be great.

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+1 mate =)

The main reason this is needed is because crossfirex and sli will only work in fullscreen, and alt-tab from full screen is standard these days mainly because of thse technologies. I think this should be added as soon as possible and it should be a reletively small change.

Alt+Tab along with an in game configuration is most certainly needed. Partly because its quite useful, and partly because it's been a standard for PC games more than 10 years.

I second this. ALT+TAB is standard in PC games, and honestly it's absence makes the game look even less polished than it is.

I would also review the whole loss of focus problem, as there are, nowadays, still a lot of people that get the DirectX error even when they do NOT alt+tab.

Nvidia 3D doesn't work (yet) in windowed mode, and in windowed mode the performance is terrible.

So yes, full screen alt + tab without crashing would be nice.

I didnt care much for this but as I now use a laptop a lot of the time I'd really like to see this fixed.

Not only just for the performance increase but when stuff like Windows Update pops up like "YOU U WANNA RESTART BRAH" it minimizes the game ><

Not to mention that anti-virus software may pop up a scheduled scan/database update window, or some other application you're using may choose to let you know it downloaded some minor update - and crash the game in the process. Plus the accidental WIN-key/multimedia keyboard presses. Oh and if you've got some instant messenger like MSN, ICQ and such running in background it's a pain as well.

Simply put, alt-tab crashing needs to go.

One of the reasons i stopped playing ffxi was fullscreen :p

I don't think it is a technical problem at all, it's just some weird policy at SE not to allow alt+tab.
Every game in the world that goes out on the market these days allow users to do so, you gotta live with your time SE.

why dont we have alt tab yet?

Full screen with Alt+Tab not crashing the game yes please.

I want to be able to have FFXI, FFXIV, Daiblo 3, WoW all open at the same time so I can play whichever one I wish at whatever time.

You guys need to check out ShiftWindow.

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Originally Posted by gaopunch

You guys need to check out ShiftWindow.

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While I've used ShiftWindow since playing EVE and other games, it still doesn't replace True Fullscreen.

Borderless Windowed mode is a must.

The very existence of FFXIV depends on whether or not this feature is in 2.0.

Windowed mode is not an answer, it's pretty absurd for a game to crash when tabbed out in fullscreen. There are performance benefits of running in fullscreen, additionally, the game has no control over your screen's gamma when running windowed. The idea that accidentally hitting the windows key or needing to check something on the same PC would crash the game...

The game needs to be able to handle being tabbed out of, plain and simple. Fullscreen (Windowed) is not the same thing, but it is equally necessary. Not having either is embarrassing.

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Originally Posted by saudrapsmann

But... It's a great way to close the game.

Whenever I don't feel like waiting to shut down I'll just alt+tab :P

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ALT+F4?

This issue is already confirmed to be corrected in 2.0. Yoshi himself said it should never have been an issue to begin with.

Windowed is horrible I don't understand how people can use it but to each his own lol. Having the alt tab option would be awesome, and I agree it shouldn't have been a problem to begin with. Right now I use steam to play XIV and u can alt tab using that. But if the overlay crashes, your screwed and have to relog and you also cant access anything on your comp except the browser.

I support, I love playing in Fullscreen. I don't like other things distracting me when playing. :D

Hmm. Looks like I was a "victim" of necroposting.
In any case, I am glad 2.0 will have Alt+Tab.

Even though I wanted it a year ago.