Alt-tab from fullscreen

[Balbanes]

Why don't people use windowed mode and set the resolution to their monitor resolution?

Thats why I'm doing and it works quite nicely.

That's what I do as well and it does work very well. I've heard that running true fullscreen ups your FPS though?

[Moth]

Why don't people use windowed mode and set the resolution to their monitor resolution?

Thats why I'm doing and it works quite nicely.

I use this too and i've never had a problem with it. It is great because it feels like I am playing full screen, but at the same time I can minimize the game to look at the lodestone, vent server, forums, etc.

[Akumu]

Edit: Problem solved.

Thanks Jynx

[Jynx]

For me when I play in windowed mode it pushes the bottom portion of my screen down to show the Final Fantasy XIV border at the top. When I try to raise it up so I can see the full screen the border just resets and pushes the screen back down.

This is why I hate playing in windowed mode but if I don't I will have to idle at certain points while playing instead of surfing the web.

You can turn window snapping off in your computer settings. You can then drag the window past it's border out of frame.

[Loony_BoB]

For some people there isn't a similar enough size to their resolution available.

[PeppinoTuna]

It's really annoying not being able to play in full screen for me. It's either I play in windowed mode and have the ability to surf the internet during down times mid-game, or I play in full screen stare at the screen and draw on paper during down times.

I'm not good at drawing and I'm almost out of ink.

[Zenaku]

They alway have the same answer it going to take time they would not have this issue if they allow it from day 1 of open beta. I don't understand how FFXIV does not have this i can deal with FFXI but FFXIV? sadly it seem matter what SE does to ffxiv it's going to take 1hour once the ps3 is release to even get a good working game if this is how slow it take to do something. I understand they have lot's in there hands and such but really it's company hire more ppl from your company and make more team. FFXIV would make you lot's of money try and hire more in your company like FFXI team there doing update ya but the game is done and dieing it's not a lot of work, working on a very old and done game.

[sruon]

True Full screen is pretty much a requirement for multi GPU builds (ok sometimes it works WITHOUT but this is a 20% chance), and not to mention a game running in full screen has better performance than windowed: even if it's covering your screen size (fake full screen), Windows DOES redraw windows behind it.

The issue is that their DirectX implementation fails, and loses the "state" of the process when Alt-tabbing while in full screen mode.

Why this is an issue, will never be known as SE are the only ones capable of such retarded bugs.

[Petdo]

This is the source code of script that Zenaku mentioned

^+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

You need to edit the value on WinMove line to match your screen resolution
You'll need autohotkey program to run this script http://www.autohotkey.com/download/

Here's the step
install autohotkey
The easy way is open your notepad
copy the script I quoted and edit value to match your screen res.
save as yourfilename.ahk
run the script by double click
when FFXIV window start ( after SE logo ) you can press ctrl+shift+a to move it to psudo-full screen and no problem with alt-tab or lost lower border anymore.

Anyway.... I'm kind of disappoint that this script released since beta... almost 7 months ago.
And SE still don't take action on this issue
Btw, even with this script, if your window 7 go to login screen you still get some directx error and exit the game.

I know there's lot of issue to take care of.
But every minor things that SE neglect is like they are lag of good senior programmer to guide junior...

[Zenaku]

This is the source code of script that Zenaku mentioned


You need to edit the value on WinMove line to match your screen resolution
You'll need autohotkey program to run this script http://www.autohotkey.com/download/

Here's the step
install autohotkey
The easy way is open your notepad
copy the script I quoted and edit value to match your screen res.
save as yourfilename.ahk
run the script by double click
when FFXIV window start ( after SE logo ) you can press ctrl+shift+a to move it to psudo-full screen and no problem with alt-tab or lost lower border anymore.

Anyway.... I'm kind of disappoint that this script released since beta... almost 7 months ago.
And SE still don't take action on this issue
Btw, even with this script, if your window 7 go to login screen you still get some directx error and exit the game.

I know there's lot of issue to take care of.
But every minor things that SE neglect is like they are lag of good senior programmer to guide junior...

Ya everything is there even the set up all you do is start up the setup and there one file you can edit and make your own without issue. Take only 5mins to set up without issue then all you do is start up the file and press ctrl-alt and F while you in game.

Note you most have FFXIV in your PC res and make the file in your PC res also the game most be in window mode. Only issue is you still in window mode so you don't get that better FPS like real full screen.