So this has been an ENORMOUSLY frustrating issue I'm having and desperately need help on. I've been able to play the game in fullscreen mode fine for the longest time on my laptop, but the windowed mode has never worked.

My reasoning for needing windowed mode so bad is so I can alt + tab and look at recipes, info, etc while playing without having to log out so it is quite a big deal I get windowed mode working.

I've already done the following to attempt to remedy this issue:

1. "Whitelist" FFXIV under NVidia control panel to perform at high performance settings and power mode at high performance

2. Updated Intel Chipset drivers

3. Updated nVidia at http://www.geforce.com/#/Drivers/Results/29659

4. Obtained DirectX SDK Update

Here are my specs:

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
System Model: Dell System XPS L502X
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2720QM CPU @ 2.20GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 6144MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 6058MB RAM
Page File: 2522MB used, 9592MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Card name: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
Display Memory: 1696 MB
Dedicated Memory: 64 MB
Shared Memory: 1632 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)

Wasn't exactly sure what was needed to help out so let me know if anyone needs more info about my laptop to help out, but essentially I put down (just to be safe) a lot of what I thought might help.

Thanks in advance guys and I appreciate all your help!