Quote Originally Posted by Soukyuu View Post
That's what I'm wondering. The error we are getting on alt-tab is related to ffxivgame.exe losing DirectX device, which is normal behavior that has to be handled as explained here.

Now, you might say that it's impossible with the current engine.
But that isn't true; remember the first windower that was released not long after launch of FFXIV? The one SE shut down for hacking itself into the exe?

Well guess what, that little program fixed the crash on fullscreen and allowed you to run Crossfire/SLI without even having access to the source code.

So my question is, do you really want to tell me SE can't implement the functionality "because of engine limitations"?
Wasn't the windower putting holes in the 'security' of the game some hackers could have exploited?
Maybe, that's why they took it out and never implemented it themselves. Also, I much prefer they prepare content for now and 2.0 than fixing a minor annoyance that will be fixed anyway in 2.0. Priorities, priorities.

I prefer fullscreen as well, but in the mean time, windowed mode is not that bad.