What FFXIV:ARR needs more than anything!

[Laraul]

doesnt the final fantasy client read which programs you have in the background and send that data back to the server though?

No of course not. That would be seen as a major invasion of users privacy.

[Matsume]

For me it's not a problem of how good it runs it's a matter of the screen not fitting in the window. If I have it much bigger than I have it now my action bar will disappear below my start up menu. For some reason it can't seem to center itself.

Yo Dawg...
You can drag and drop all in game boxes. If your action bar drops below the start up menu, go back to a smaller window size, arrange it so that all your boxes (chat logs, action bar, exp bar, health bar, utility bar, debuff/buff bar, map, date, moon phase) are centered away from the edges. Then change the window size to that which you desire and rearange all the boxes to their desired positions.

I don't really know the reason that resizing the window shifts all the ingame boxes one way or another. I would think the client intelligent enough to recognize where the boxes are in relation to the windows edges and rearrange them accordingly regardless of the window size but that doesn't yet seem to be possible.

I hope that works if not the above mentioend script.

[Xiichi]

If you can find that elusive actual fullscreen-window option, use that. Since I use it for other games as well, I just downloaded Auto-Hotkey and use this script:

^+a::
WinSet, Style, -0xC00000,a ; remove the titlebar and border(s)
WinMove, a, , 0, 0, 1680, 1050 ; move the window to 0,0 and resize it to 1680x1050
return

Set to Shift-A. Doesn't toggle back and forth, but it'll get the job done.

Edit** You can change the binding with an overriding option for all scripts on Auto-Hotkey, or the top line. Should also be able to set it to return to a regular windowed mode with an additional two lines; I've just never had the need.

Note - If you're using this script it's ctrl+shift+a to activate without any additional bindings, but thumbs up for the script!

[Tiberious]

Alt+tab in full screen mode.

I really hope that this didn't get pushed on the back-burner. I haven't seen it mentioned (although that doesn't mean anything I miss a lot of information apparently). I'm tired of having this nice machine to play upper-tier video games, but still having to play in this tiny box for FFXIV because the windowed mode makes more problems then solutions that it's worth at larger window sizes.

Well, generally speaking , as good as FFXIV 1.0 looked it did not look THAT good to warrant the kind of machine you need to play it. On my same machine I built for it I have played deus ex, battlefield 3, mass effect 1-3, and batman arkham city all with graphics settings on as high as they would go with relatively little or no graphical performance decrease.

FFXIV 1.0 on the other hand..... Sorry, but that's just poor design, or coding, or something.

[Camate]

Greetings multi-taskers!

As long as your PCs are up to par with the recommended specs, you will be able to ALT+TAB safely out of full-screen mode without the game crashing.

[DrakoRocks]

Greetings multi-taskers!

As long as your PCs are up to par with the recommended specs, you will be able to ALT+TAB safely out of full-screen mode without the game crashing.

i hope we also get a windowed full screen mode WITHOUT BORDERS.. any good game comes with that nowdays.

[Rosalie]

i hope we also get a windowed full screen mode WITHOUT BORDERS.. any good game comes with that nowdays.

Um... that's exactly what Camate just said we were getting...

[Ashiee]

Greetings multi-taskers!

As long as your PCs are up to par with the recommended specs, you will be able to ALT+TAB safely out of full-screen mode without the game crashing.

I thought this day would never come....

[Alhanelem]

Um... that's exactly what Camate just said we were getting...

No, that's not what he said we're getting. He said we'll be able to alt tab from full screen mode without the game crashing. This person is asking for a borderless window of the same size as the screen resolution. Alt tabbing is much faster when a program is not in fullscreen mode, but he still wants it to take up the whole screen. Borderless window is a common option in games these days.

A borderless window the size of the screen does result in a very slight performance decrease because the game doesn't have exclusive control of the screen with this method. However, alt-tabbing is instant like it is for any other program, instead of that lengthy delay you get when alt tabbing from a true fullscreen mode.

[Ingolf]

Greetings multi-taskers!

As long as your PCs are up to par with the recommended specs, you will be able to ALT+TAB safely out of full-screen mode without the game crashing.

FINALLY.

This is why most people used windower in XI and the equivalent in XIV. Windowed mode is ugly and full screen locks you into one task.

I was so disappointed when XIV didn't let you alt tab, it's such a basic thing to allow.