FFXI Windowed ModeFollow

Did they ever fix this?

I remember reading that they added a Windowed Mode but simply put for some reason or another it simply did not work very well, nowhere near as well as the 3rd Party Option we're not supposed to talk about.

Did they ever improve upon it, so that said 3rd Party Option is no longer necessary?

I find myself lost and confused often and I'm trying to figure out a way I can access the internet while playing a game and I'd hate to have to do the whole "laptop at my side" thing. I don't want to download any 3rd party things, I'd rather do it legitimately if at all possible.

Just use Windower, they don't ban for it, never have. If you don't want to "cheat", disable the base addons and plugins.

Windowed mode in the config is quite the disappointment, I prefer borderless window when I game as I like the game to take up the whole monitor but still be able to USE my second monitor for guides. While I could set it to window and hit full screen, this makes me take a hit in game performance and also I find the bar on the top of my screen distracting.

Pretty sure you can do all of that stuff in Windower.

It surely wouldn't be too hard for them to code a Borderless Window mode, because every other game I ever played has it, just about.

And maybe sometime I'll take a screenshot of what I mean by distorted text. It really bugs me for some reason, I don't know why. But until then, I guess I have no choice but to use that thing that must not be mentioned. *grumbles*

To SE, I'd say: I wouldn't use Windower if your windowed mode actually worked the way it needs to. Fix it and I wouldn't touch that 3rd party thing with a 50 foot pole. I don't need/want any of its addons, I *only* want Borderless Window so I can alt-tab freely.

Edited, Mar 22nd 2014 10:36am by Lyrailis

http://i.imgur.com/HndYZQn.png

This is what it is doing to me. I cannot get the game to cover up the taskbar at the bottom, nor hide the stupid border along the top and it appears to be squishing the first few lines of the chatlog to compensate for the room that is taken up by the taskbar/top border.

The text rendering bug does not happen in fullscreen mode, though.: It ONLY does it with the official windowed mode. I tested Windower's Borderless Window mode, and it doesn't have the text rendering bug either.

So it isn't a problem of me comparing FFXI to modern games.

As far as hiding the taskbar... that'd be awkward to turn that on and off every time I go to play FFXI; I just don't see that being feasible. I like my Taskbar being visible when I'm not playing games; I'd have to keep turning auto-hide on and off every time I go into a game and that's just not a reasonable solution to the problem.

But if you're sure that FFXI's text rendering has nothing to do with the fact the window is being squished by having to allow for the taskbar room, then the taskbar isn't even the cause anyways.

Though that reminds me. I do remember seeing a "Menu Resolution". Maybe I'll try lowering that and it might be able to fit the menu on the screen without distortions.

EDIT: nope, that didn't work either. Tried setting it significantly lower, still distorted.

EDIT2: Wow, seriously, a ratedown for this? *rolls eyes*

Edited, Mar 23rd 2014 6:38pm by Lyrailis

Yeah, there's a fix out there for people who have this problem. It may not be SE official, but honestly a large number of PC games are "finished" by modders (Civilization games, Elder Scrolls, almost every other MMO, etc.) Leave the dev team to coding things that are completely untouchable by 3rd party hands.