Alt-tab from fullscreen

[Darkshade]

Well. That doesn't sound too bad. I'd like to also add that to myself as a player this would be a great feature and even though there might be more important stuff planned now I want to make sure that this isn't something that gets cut at some point. Even if it takes awhile, please, please, please add a way to ALT+TAB from full screen and back.

The huge amount of performance lost when running the game in a window is simply unacceptable.

On my PC it's I can run the game in 1920x1080, all setting on high/very high, no AA, no Ambient Occlusion, at 60fps, or run the game windowed at 1280x720 with settings slightly lowered at 15-25fps.

The fact that I'm forced to lower settings to get worse performance to a deal breaker. One of the many reasons I bought XIV was to experience state of the art graphics and sound presentation.

A quick note/tip to anyone that wants to use true fullscreen mode for the added performance but wanted the ability to use a web browser at the same time. Installing Steam and making XIV use the steam overlay integration works wonders. Steam chat+voice chat and a bare Google Chrome based browser.

[Leknaat]

Considering they've had this problem since FF11 I think it's safe to say they really honestly could care less about wether it gets fixed or not.

[Elexia]

Considering they've had this problem since FF11 I think it's safe to say they really honestly could care less about wether it gets fixed or not.

XI was a straight port from the PS2, very little was changed on the PC version and XIV is being ported to the PS3, so there's a good chance the initial design was setup in a way that moving to OGL would produce the problem, since PS3 is on a modified version.

[Leknaat]

Yes but they could have implemented the fix for ff11 at any point in the 8-something years - like when they decided to get the nice shiny sticker for vista (for their really half-assed windowed mode with really bad gamma).

[Micrll]

Considering they've had this problem since FF11 I think it's safe to say they really honestly could care less about wether it gets fixed or not.

This still doesn't make it anymore acceptable, this is XIV NOT XI. I for one won't stop complaining about alt-tab crashes till this bug is fixed.

[Soukyuu]

Exactly Micrll.
This is not some extra we want here, this is a standard for any PC software. If SE can't handle the PC platform, why don't they stick with consoles? I don't remember any weird problems from their console games.

[Jinko]

Yup it's fairly obvious that SE has no idea when it comes to PC development, not only coding but user interface and controls, can anyone remember back in beta before they fixed the mouse controls... hardware mouse cursor etc

These are all basic things but it seemed to evade them.

It's almost as if they are learning as they go, of course we have been asking for alt-tab since beta also /sigh

[Jovy]

I am really interested in the logic that made the devs want to cripple alt-tabing. Is it possible for you to find out Bayohne?

[Elexia]

Exactly Micrll.
This is not some extra we want here, this is a standard for any PC software. If SE can't handle the PC platform, why don't they stick with consoles? I don't remember any weird problems from their console games.

Because their PC games tend to be ports, which is why "basics evade them", because they don't redo the core code for the ported platforms, they just wrap it.

[Soukyuu]

FFXIV is no port though.
From what we know, Crystal tool is a multiplatform engine, being able to built native code for supported platforms.
So the PS3 version is native, just like the PC one, else the "multiplatform" doesn't really make sense.