Alt+Tab

[Caliburn]

I'm sure there have been many cries for this already, but after starting the game yesterday I've found it very frustrating to have to quit the game every time I need to check something game-related online. And I don't want to play in windowed mode because I can't find a comfortable resolution which lets me see the entire window without it being partially obscured at the bottom by my toolbar.

Is this something to do with preventing RMT? Because I don't think RMT is the biggest threat to the game right now. Having a happy playerbase should be much more important. Seriously, you create a game which requires a large amount of online resources to be accessed during gameplay, yet alt+tab crashes the game.

Can this be remedied somehow?

[Sav]

You can play in windowed mode, but you cannot maximize it, unfortunately. That's how I play, at least. MMO's w/o web access is practically playing blindfolded :x

[AshToreth]

here you go...
http://error13001.co.cc/windowed.html

[Caliburn]

Thank you for this! =]

EDIT: I am now getting the "Unable to detect directx device" error when I move to another window. -sigh-

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

One thing to complete the illusion is to set your task bar to auto hide so that it's not blocking your view. Any sidebar widgets should also be defeated. And then I guess the game resolution should match your desktop resolution.

Mostly posted for those who don't feel comfortable with the mod solution.

[AshToreth]

Thank you for this! =]

EDIT: I am now getting the "Unable to detect directx device" error when I move to another window. -sigh-

Had this happen to my girlfriends PC.... i updated the .net framework and was good to go. Cant say for sure if that is your problem tho. Its not too easy to diagnose remotely. Cant hurt to toss on a new version of the directx drivers either

BTW.. you are hitting ctrl+shift+A when your active window is FFXIV? It only makes the active window borderless

[Grim_Lion]

This has been asked for time and time again.

Time and time again S.E.'s dev's have shown that they simply are not as talented as even MR. Ashtoreth here to provide the player base with a proper, now standard setting in either FFxi or this game. It really does point to the problems with some departments within S.E.

There really is no other excuse other than being lazy, misinformed, or simply sticking your head in the sand like those big dumb birds.

Anyways, you can basically stop asking, it been asked for millions of time and the only people who care are people like Ashtoreth. SE couldn't care less about your needs in this case.

[Zenaku]

This has been asked for time and time again.

Time and time again S.E.'s dev's have shown that they simply are not as talented as even MR. Ashtoreth here to provide the player base with a proper, now standard setting in either FFxi or this game. It really does point to the problems with some departments within S.E.

There really is no other excuse other than being lazy, misinformed, or simply sticking your head in the sand like those big dumb birds.

Anyways, you can basically stop asking, it been asked for millions of time and the only people who care are people like Ashtoreth. SE couldn't care less about your needs in this case.

That why someone came up with a tool of alt-tab on his free time because it's true what you say there to lazy to even do it on there end.

It's sad how much SE use systemcore,severs or any other type of limit not to give us something that every mmo have -.-

[LanikMueller]

here you go...
http://error13001.co.cc/windowed.html

For some reason when I follow this and set it up just as it says it wont work for XIV. It will work for any window except the game. Im starting to lose my cool over this. I had been using shiftwindow but for some reason it has started to not work. Id have to restart the pc repeatedly until it finally grabbed the window. And since thats annoying as hell I started to look for another solution for this problem. They want to make us pay for the game but its still broke. They better start fixing these little issues now. Like right now.

[indira]

boarderless window mode FTW!