Missing Resolution?

[Asai]

Recently a friend of mine started playing again and wanted to know what resolution I played in windowed mode that fit the screen well without being too small. My monitor is 1920x1080, and I'm pretty sure the game screen resolution I had set in FFXIV config was 17XX by 1XXX.

I went to go check, and that option wasn't available, and lo and behold, now I can't change my resolution back to that setting, so my GUI is screwed up on the next setting higher AND the next setting lower than what I used to have.

With the recent update did they decide to omit certain resolution options?

Is there a way to set it manually via a config file somewhere that I can simply alter in notepad or something like that?

It's not a driver issue, don't even suggest it. I went through a long process of elimination before even deciding to post this here since I don't know what to do or try, short of completely re-installing the game..

[Coldfire]

The resolution depend on the video and monitor drivers. You can manually set them in the config file though with a hex editor <.<

[Asai]

Again, not a driver issue. Tested on 2 PC's with different cards (GTX 550 and ATI 5750), rolled back/updated both pc's drivers, that setting remains missing. I have no idea how to go about editing the config with a hex editor, so I'd need a complete walkthrough. Aside from that, would it be possible to copy a file from someone else that still has that resolution set and hasn't changed it yet?

[Coldfire]

Yes, that would work(but the other settings are also copied). As for the walkthrough:
-Requirements: any hex editor, windows calculator
1. browse to c:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV\
2. make a backup of config.sys
3. start the config tool and write down your current resolution
4. open windows calculator and change to programmer view
5. set it to "dec" and enter the resolution width
6. set it to hex and write down the inverted hex number (e.g. 780->8007, 1234->3412)
7. open config.sys with a hex editor and look for that number
8. pick a resolution width you want a do step 5-6 with it
9. overwrite the number in the file with the new number
10. repeat step 5-9 with height

Btw I still have 1776x1000 available in my general settings. So it's not a problem with the game. It's most likely the monitor driver :P

[Asai]

Going to attempt this now. I have no idea what the driver issue is but I'm assuming there's some conflict because of the update. The person that I mentioned before, that was asking what a good resolution to use was, also can not see the 1776x1000 any more. What GPU are you using, if you don't mind my asking? Trying to see where the problem might be coming from.

[Asai]

Awesome, worked! Gonna tweak it a bit to make it fit better. Was a bit confusing at first, haven't played around with hex values since the Cisco days... Thank you very much for your help!

[Coldfire]

I'm using two HD5870 and a Samsung T260 as monitor(16:10).

[pribilof]

Can someone please help? I am stuck on step 6. Can someone clarify what I need to do here.

Thanks

Karl

[Coldfire]

Can someone please help? I am stuck on step 6. Can someone clarify what I need to do here.

Thanks

Karl

The hex values inside the config file are saved backwards. That means you have to reverse them to read the values. It's small blocks of 2 digits from 00 to FF(in decimal it would be 0 to 255 which is exactly a byte). If you have two blocks with the order 12 34 you just have to swap them: 12 34 -> 34 12, 1C F0 -> F0 1C, etc.