Alt + Tab yes please :D

[Delsus]

I beleave this should be added as soon as possible, mainly because things like 3d, SLI and Crossfire require you to play in fullscreen. Also as some people have already said fullscreen lowers stress on PC components.

And the graphics will be alot better in fullscreen, not allowing alt-tab in fullscreen was one reason alot of people use 3rd party programs in ffxi (im sure you all know which one I'm talking about) and if we could alt-tab out of fullscreen it could make less people want to use 3rd party programs that could allow this.

[Keith_Dragoon]

Thing is SE has 2 choices here, add some kinda option or rework the game to allow alt + tab in fullscreen or ban 90% of the PC playerbase for using harmless 3rd party program that can convert windowed to fullscreen.

I have been barking up this tree since beta, good luck getting through to them.

[Kurai]

While this usually a PC game basic, I think the decision to not add it is due to the ease of running third party programs while FFXIV is running.

Anyone who wants to run a third party program knows how to work around the lack of ALT+TAB, so they are mostly inconveniencing their more casual players.

Of course, everyone has their old computer sitting around anyway. ALT-TAB would be nice, but then that old PC would truely be worthless.

anyone wanting to run a bot (Which i would not recommend) would just put the game in windowed mode in config, then when playing normally would simply restart the game in fullscreen when he or she is in front of the PC. so the fact that SE wont add Alt + tab seems pretty retarded anyway. It only takes a few seconds to force close the game and restart it in fullscreen or windowed. I had a lot of problems when I started using CrossfieX with ffxiv so I was switching between windowed and full a lot before I figured out what the problem was with the flickering UI. But thats a whole other thread which I wont get into right now

[Cornyboob]

yes please

[Sinzfeldt]

Windowed mode /thread

[Soukyuu]

This thread clearly demonstrates why alt+tab will never be fixed.

If SE bans me for using an external program that enables me to have a feature that even the lowest quality f2p game out there has out of the box, well, it's their loss.

edit: Well, looks like at least it was forwarded to the devs or something: click
Whatever might come out of it...

[potman]

Yes I understand this. Still not a big deal to implement. They could even remove the border, title bar, etc... from the windowed setting. I know this isn't true full screen but it would look much better still.

Yes Please for ALT - TAB !! or as Critter said they can at least remove borders from windowed mode.

Also give me VSYNC too please , i have tearing in Full Screen

[Soukyuu]

Also give me VSYNC too please , i have tearing in Full Screen

OT: Use the GPU control panel for that in the meantime

[Keith_Dragoon]

OT: Use the GPU control panel for that in the meantime

explain? and is "tearing" those random white lines in CSs I get here n there?

[Micrll]

Tearing is what happens when the game is redrawing the screen faster than your monitor can refresh it. What happens is that you start getting instances where the image breaks in the middle of it as its showing two different frames at once.
Wikipedia has a good example / explanation of whats happening with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing
vsync forces it to only redraw at the max speed the monitor can handle. (Most standard LCD's is 60Hz / FPS)

And +1 for running XIV with crossfire. I have dual 5750's, when I built my machine it was the best performance per $ in my price range. A single 5750 however is not THAT great on its own and running XIV in windowed mode really slows down. Full screen performance is MUCH better when both cards can be fully utilized.

As for them having to redo parts of the graphics engine, this should have never been the case in the first place. Its a bug, and I will continue to label it as such till it gets fixed.