My laptop is a 4k monitor display, so I'm not entirely sure how I was doing it, but I was playing the game on my laptop in a 1920x1080 state while in window borderless mode.

However I was messing with some settings in my discord and hit the overlay button and turned on overlay for discord. Immediately as this happened, FF XIV went into a WINDOWED state and entered a 4K resolution state. Also when this happened the game dropped FPS severely from around 100FPS to around 15-20 FPS. I've done some settings play and got the FPS to around 28-30, but the issue still remains that I can't enter the 1920x1080 in the borderless window setting.

When in fullscreen mode I can get the game back to where I like it (100+fps and 1920x1080) but this forces me into a state of not being able to alt+tab. And as someone who alt+tab's consistently this is a huge issue.

I should mention that when in fullscreen, borderless window, or even window mode when sitting in 4k res the game drops to the 15-30FPS rate. all other settings are set to the high end laptop setting with the exception of Real-Time Reflections being set to Standard and Glare set to Standard.

For general technical solutions, I have launched the game with discord active and deactivated, restarted my pc (turned it off and on), ensured my laptop was plugged in and at full battery, ensured graphics cards and drivers were up to date, and launched the game with discord overlay both on and off.

I will be glad to answer any other trouble shooting questions if anyone has time or the resources to help me in this matter. As it stands now, I only can think of two other options.Those options would be opening and altering the CFG files, or reinstalling the game.

Any help with this matter would truly be appreciated and I hope someone can answer this difficult and very specific issue I'm having.