Pressing the Windows button on the keyboard in full screen mode crashes the game

[Neptune]

Did you know there is a button you can press on the keyboard that crashes the game and disconnects you from the server?

[Loth]

And this is a new and relevant bug report?

If you feel this makes the game unplayable, you can visit Microsoft, do a search on disable windows key, and you will see two reg files, one to disable and one to enable the windows key.

That being said, yes, I too wish for them make alt + tab function like in most other windows applications.

[Ashvrei]

Hello,

Thank you for reporting this concern. I will be moving this to the general discussion section so we can receive some additional feedback and suggestions.

Thank you,
SQUARE ENIX Moderator

[Belial]

Hello,

Thank you for reporting this concern. I will be moving this to the general discussion section so we can receive some additional feedback and suggestions.

Thank you,
SQUARE ENIX Moderator

lol, you must be new here.

[Neptune]

And this is a new and relevant bug report?

If you feel this makes the game unplayable, you can visit Microsoft, do a search on disable windows key, and you will see two reg files, one to disable and one to enable the windows key..

Thanks Loth, I think your suggestion is so incredibly helpful that I am going to volunteer to send postcards out to all 600,000 people that purchased a copy of FFXIV to let them know that they can visit Microsoft, do a search on disable windows key, that they will see two reg files, one to disable and one to enable the windows key, and a reminder to backup their mother $%#@ING registry lest they irreparably harm their computer by noobishly editing it.

lol, you must be new here.

Be nice to the mods!

[Dreadnought]

heres some feed back,the poster above is fanboyish enough to leave it to microsoft for the windows button crashing the game even though the game SHOULD NOT crash when ANY button is just pressed. that is what "log out" is for.

let us be able to minimize full screen like every other MMO please.

speaking of "log out", is it so much to ask for "shut down" to be added?

[Belial]

Be nice to the mods!

Hey, this is one of those beaten to death topics, thought everyone already knew that it needs to be fixed and that there are options out there that allow you play in a pseudo-full screen form so you may alt-tab without crashing.

[Neptune]

Hey, this is one of those beaten to death topics, thought everyone already knew that it needs to be fixed and that there are options out there that allow you play in a pseudo-full screen form so you may alt-tab without crashing.

I'm sure the mod knows that. After all, he could have just submitted the bug report. I wasn't trying to call you out though, just didn't want the mod's feelings to get hurt.

[RedAffinity]

My game shouldn't crash when the windows button is pushed. It also shouldn't crash when iTunes, running in the background, plays a music video which forces the application to the foreground. My game shouldn't crash, even in window mode, when User Account Control pops up to verify something.

This isn't Microsoft, Apple, or whatever's fault. This is something Square-Enix needs to resolve. But yeah this is a pretty beaten down topic and has been a PITA issue even with FFXI

[Rinoa]

It definitely needs to be fixed, I can't run FF14 in full screen at all. Its just a driver error, witch is something we shouldn't have to mess with.