thank you for the response but yes... ive tried EVERYTHING I could think of AND/OR find on the net before turning to posting. And ive been using pc's for 20 years or so. Im just out of ideas and I can find very little that directly relates to my particular issue.

I did hear z87 had issues with surround but then I then I realized it wouldn't work in everything else then

Literally just this game and just in surround. Its almost like it thinks surround = windowed or something (I heard sli doesn't work w/ ffxiv in windowed mode)

Hopefully someone will come across this with some insight (ideally someone from square!) does that ever happen or are they like most and just leave us to our own to figure these things out or deal with them?