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Do you hate alt-tab, ye PC players?
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:15 pm
by maryadavies
I happened to stumble across a fix for that
http://www.rpgexpert.com/548.html
If I was playin' the PC version, Bill Gates'd have my number for that one!
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 3:46 pm
by nuri
OMG~! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY~!
I FRIGGIN' hate ALT+TAB, CTRL+ESC, and ALT+ESC~! YAAAAAAAAY~! I LOVE YOU~!
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 5:32 pm
by Sivara
I thought Square Enix fixed that already.
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:39 pm
by maryadavies
From what I heard, (Myst or another PC player might be able to confirm) they fixed the Windows key crashout, but not alt+tab.
Well, now you can have it all if you use this fix
And far as I know, this fix isn't breaking any licence agreements for FFXI...otherwise Square would have to sue Bill Gates...that would be a ugly thing!
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 7:15 pm
by Kopopo
Only the Windows key is fixed.
*casts Water I on Sivara*
pwned.
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:59 pm
by nuri
Really? It doesn't do any of the others?
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:06 am
by maryadavies
From what I saw, it does them all (read the webpage and see)
But the ONLY fixed by Squaresoft "I hate this key/keys that crashes my game" was the Windows key.
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:55 pm
by nuri
Ah, okie. I'll finally be home on Friday, so I'll try it out then. ^^
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:59 pm
by Sivara
Only the Windows key is fixed.
*casts Water I on Sivara*
pwned.
Sivara uses Sturmwind.
Kopopo's casting is interrupted.
Kopopo takes 9999 damage.
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:55 pm
by nuri
0\|/|\|3|>3|>!!111!11
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:32 pm
by Alya Mizar (Tsybil)
Nice one, but the combo that I usualy kick myself for accidently hitting is Alt - Esc.....
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:58 pm
by Nivez
note, unlike all of you. i like alt-tab, provides a nice way to get out of the game fasti fi your in a hurry. and since i use a controler and not a keyboard. i never seem to have your alt-tab problem^^
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 11:25 pm
by Mystiana
Alt-tab doesn't help you "get out" any faster. Your character is still around for 30 seconds, even if you're no longer controlling it. ^.~
If you need to logout that quickly, you can always press reset. Has just as much effect.
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 12:29 am
by Prrsha
Reset doesn't log yourself out of windows though.
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 9:20 pm
by Kairo
Heres a better fix. (^_^)b
http://ffxi.archbell.com/
Dozo yorosiku.
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:09 am
by Mystiana
Does 2.1 work after the CoP patch?
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:02 am
by Fayin
Hai.
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:21 pm
by Mystiana
Woo, it's so beautiful [again]. ^^
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:44 am
by Fayin
Multitask on a computer? What will they think of next?
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:12 pm
by Tamarik
Bah, alt-tab is the fastest logout the game has, that and hammering a shift key five times.
Just don't do it while aggro'd.
Working?
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:56 pm
by Neoshinobi
Kairo
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:20 pm Post subject:
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Heres a better fix. (^_^)b
http://ffxi.archbell.com/
Dozo yorosiku.
Does this still work?
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:43 am
by Josiejo
Yay Kairo! I'm getting this when I get home from work!! ^^
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:57 am
by Nivez
yes it does, i personally use the windower for my ffxi, i couldnt live w/o it
(ok i could but it makes my life ALOT easier) i will give you one warning though, using the ffxi windower enables the windows key again, however it doesnt kick you out of game (yay) but does have an intresting side effect. hitting windows + another key ingame (havent really tested which keys it works with) LOCKS the windows key on, and currently i know no way of turning it off, therefor any and all text you type will open up windows shortcuts that only special people know, and the only way to fix the problem is to restart the computer....
besides this little problem, the windower works great, i also cant wait for the new version, which will solve alot of the problems in the current version. anyways, if your like me and have ffxi for pc, play it on pc, have only one computer, and that computer only has one monitor, then the windower is a very very useful tool, if you are classified as not having this situation, you may dibate on its usefullness. but its still very useful!
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:24 pm
by Josiejo
I can't get it to work.
I followed the instructions on the download page, but it still loads in full screen mode when I use launch.bat. Anyone know how to fix that?
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:00 pm
by Neoshinobi
Farthest I get is right before the game goes into fullscreen, then I get an error telling me pol has to close.
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:32 pm
by Lihera
In response to Josiejo, open up the lauch.bat in notepad and do a quick find for the letters "pol" wheen you find that, you just change it to wherever you pol.exe is located. Yep this happened to me alot since I have three different hard drives. By the way, is there any way to fix that whole mouse missalignment thing?
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:04 am
by Josiejo
Er... I said I followed the directions.
I've already done that... still getting full screen mode. If I hadn't done that, then pol wouldn't launch at all. *shrug*
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:31 am
by Prrsha
Just to those who don't already know, using a window minimizer can get you banned if the GMs discover you are using one. So make sure you use it at your own risk.
Before you get all huffity at me I am neither saying it is "right" or "wrong" to use a window minimizer, I'm just reporting the risks of using one.
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:51 pm
by Lihera
The only thing I'm wondering about, is how exactly do they find out...[/i]
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:50 am
by Lihera
By the way, I just fiured out josiejo's pol issue.. ready?
You just hit Alt+Tab, and it should go into a windowed mode.