Discord won't detect Final Fantasy XIV

[Melichoir]

Are you running FF as an administrator? This can keep some apps from getting access to it, such as streaming software, the steam overlay, and so on.

Run both FF and Discord as admins. It's also worth noting that Discord has been (atleast among my group of friends) buggy as hell lately where itll drop sound all together on occassion when running FFXIV or other online games. Not sure if anyone else has been getting buggy issues like this, but yeah, I dont think it's isolated based on what Ive been seeing.

[Tyverus]

Hi

It's been a while since I updated this, apologies for that.

I don't beleive this is a Discord issue as, FFXIV is stil not displayed (even when one or both applications are ran as admin) also, FFXIV does not display correctly when I use 'Came Capture' in my streaming software, I have to select it through 'Window Capture'

Again, this is very confusing to me, as oonly myself and a handful of other people are having this issue.

[MistakeNot]

Hi

It's been a while since I updated this, apologies for that.

I don't beleive this is a Discord issue as, FFXIV is stil not displayed (even when one or both applications are ran as admin) also, FFXIV does not display correctly when I use 'Came Capture' in my streaming software, I have to select it through 'Window Capture'

Again, this is very confusing to me, as oonly myself and a handful of other people are having this issue.

It is a Discord issue, since FFXIV does not have any built-in support for Discord and is not responsible for Discord working correctly.

[Lethros]

Also doesn't show for me either, but it has previously months ago. I don't really use discord so I never really cared. I did try removing all the previously active listings of FFXIV in the game activity list, and then after try re-adding but there was nothing

[Cinno]

This has been happening to me for a couple of months now.. I've kindof given up. I've tried googling everything, tried the administrator thing, nothing works.

Discord shows literally everything else i open as my Now Playing (Even photoshop..) But it doesnt acknowledge FFXIV at all for me.

[Atrium]

Same here...I've pretty much given up trying to get the overlay to work or for it to display as the game I'm currently playing. My other friends status do change to "playing FF14" so I might just reinstall discord. But overlay not working for sure which sucks cuz I hate alt tabbing

[Eldevern]

It usually don't activate for me unless both the game and discord run in administrator mode.

[Wolfyl]

It is a Discord issue, since FFXIV does not have any built-in support for Discord and is not responsible for Discord working correctly.

Hi

It's been a while since I updated this, apologies for that.

I don't beleive this is a Discord issue as, FFXIV is stil not displayed (even when one or both applications are ran as admin) also, FFXIV does not display correctly when I use 'Came Capture' in my streaming software, I have to select it through 'Window Capture'

Again, this is very confusing to me, as oonly myself and a handful of other people are having this issue.

Time to clear some things up and add some to the staple:

It is an FFXIV issue.
I have an even higher issue than Tyverus. Even Windows won't detect FFXIV. It is only visible in the Taskmanager. Sound Manager? Nothing. Discord? Nothing.
Tried either and both as Admin.
Reinstalled both and nothing.

OBS? Detects only per Window Capture. Windows recording method do not even detect FFXIV in any way.

Discord is started with user permissions and can even hook to programs and games started with admin privileges.

Had this issue on 2 windows installation on 2 different pc's. One time i managed to fix it, but who knows if it was the Direct X packages from older games that fixed it or some windows update that broke it?

Square Enix is not very helpful on the matter either, a support ticket will be closed within a week of following the premade sheet of instructions on what to do, failing to actually address the issue.
Tho, with the new problem i found with even windows failing to detect ffxiv after two clean installs it may be worth a new shot.

TL;DR:

It is not a Discord issue. The fault lies somewhere on ffxiv.

[Jojoya]

It is not a Discord issue. The fault lies somewhere on ffxiv.

If the problem was with FFXIV, no player's Discord would display when they were playing FFXIV. My Discord right now shows I am playing FFXIV. Clearly it is being detected.

Sounds more like there's some setting on some app on your computer that has been changed to block communication between FFXIV and Discord. SE can't be held responsible for that.

[MistakeNot]

It is not a Discord issue. The fault lies somewhere on ffxiv.

It is not a fault with FFXIV, since FFXIV is not designed to work with Discord. Square Enix is not responsible for getting FFXIV to work correctly with Discord, and if any change to FFXIV prevents Discord from finding FFXIV, that is not an issue the FFXIV developers are responsible for taking care of.

In short, getting Discord to work fine with FFXIV is 100% the responsibility of the Discord developers.