Monitor Switching doesn't work anymore

[Cha0zb0rn]

hey,

till today i was able to switch the game from one monitor to another by pressing F11 and F12. Since today, after i loaded a small patch, this function seems to be gone which really annoys me since I used this function all the time.

Is this function still in the game? soem feedback would be nice

[pinkcatflower]

I'd like to piggyback onto your thread to say that my Ventrilo push-to-talk button (left CTRL button) does not work when FFXIV is my active window. It seems that with the last patch, all keys that have a special function outside of the game have been disabled while the game is active.

I haven't found any option to change it back to the way it used to be.

Because I rely on voice chat for raiding, I don't know what to do about this. I sincerely hope it's something that we can circumvent.

[RaineMagus]

I'd like to piggyback onto your thread to say that my Ventrilo push-to-talk button (left CTRL button) does not work when FFXIV is my active window. It seems that with the last patch, all keys that have a special function outside of the game have been disabled while the game is active.

I haven't found any option to change it back to the way it used to be.

Because I rely on voice chat for raiding, I don't know what to do about this. I sincerely hope it's something that we can circumvent.

I never looked into the way that FFXIV and Ventrilo handled input, yet this is something that I can speculate.



One way that I can think of offhand where XIV would block Ventrilo's hotkeys, is if Ventrilo has a hotkey "suppression" feature (not possible using 'RegisterHotKey') that they used a low-level heyboard hook to implement.

If XIV also uses a LL keyboard hook, loads after Ventrilo, and XIV doesn't pass the keyboard events it acts on to the next hook in the chain (while focused) ... then due to XIV being higher in the hook-chain, it'd be possible for the game to block keyboard events from reaching Ventrilo.


Long story short, try loading Ventrilo "after" the game, rather than before (*if you've not already tried this*). If the above is the case (both using LL keyboard hooks), then loading Vent second will place it at the top of the hook chain. Since Ventrilo would be at the top of the chain, it'd receive keyboard events first before XIV, which may prevent the game from blocking the hotkey behavior.


Again this is purely speculation, I've never had a problem that I needed to investigate.

[RaineMagus]

hey,

till today i was able to switch the game from one monitor to another by pressing F11 and F12. Since today, after i loaded a small patch, this function seems to be gone which really annoys me since I used this function all the time.

Is this function still in the game? soem feedback would be nice

When you say the function is "gone"... Do you mean that the hotkeys no longer do anything when pressed? Or -- that the game no longer works after switching displays?

--The first of the two may be related to pinkcatflower's issue with Ventrilo, depending how your laptop has these hotkeys implemented.
--If it's the second and you're getting a blackscreen, if the game is crashing, etc. Then I can report that I do not have a problem switching display modes on my Sager NP8170 / Geforce 580m [in fullscreen mode or Windowed mode]. (in this case it may be driver related)



What type of GPU does your notebook have, and which OS version?

[Cha0zb0rn]

it's the first, the buttons simply don't do anything anymore and seems to be related to pinkflowercats issue. I dont use a notebook but a pc with 2 monitors, my GPU is a radeon HD 6850. As I said, Problem occurs since the latest patch (not 2.1 but a small patch yesterday)