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Acktually, thinking about it more and more, I'm having multiple issues with alt-tab. One is generic (happens in other full-screen games as well, but not other "software"), the rest are FFXI specific.
Let me try to throw them here, someone might have a vague idea on what the cause could be, there could be multiple ones!
This PC is fairly new (got it february/march last year) and these issues I'm experiencing started somewhat around january/february 2025, after a Windows 11 update but that could be just a coincidence.


General issue:
When I alt-tab back into a game, the screen image is "fixed", nothing moves, like it's a screenshot. The game actually feels my inputs from keyboard and pad and I can hear it from sound effects but on screen I can see a "picture" of my game's screen. How to solve it? Alt tab out, then alt tab back.

FFXI specific issues:
1) When I alt tab back to the game, the ALT macro is stuck on screen. Anything I try to type or to do, it's like I'm holding down the "alt" button. How to fix? Press the alt/ctrl keys once, the issue disappears.
2) When I tab OUT of FFXI (i.e. I go to another windows11 window, whatever it may be) the game somehow gets "stuck". I don't see or feel anything, but other people in game can see me red-dotting.
If I alt-tab back into the game, I notice for a nanosecond I had a red dot on my head.
If too much time passes, my character eventually DCs and when I go back to the game I see the FFXI POL error "network communication lost" or whatever it is, and after I press ok I get back to the char select screen.
How to Fix it? Well, I need to go back to the FFXI window within a certain amount of time, otherwise I'll just DC, no fix.
3) I can't alt-tab back to the game. I'm on Windows doing something, say browsing stuff on Chrome, use Alt-tab or windows-tab to go back to the FFXI. Nothing happens, I remain to my Windows software, whatever it may be. I try to click on the FFXI icon in my taskbar, nothing happens.
How to solve? Well, reduce all other software/windows to the taskbar, then FFXI will appear on my screen (was always there, on the background after all). If I click anywhere on the screen, everything is solved.


Strange thing for all these issues, as far as I can tell they NEVER happen if I use //game_minimize instead of simply alt-tabbing in and out.
Also another strange thing, these things are not happening all of the times, only sometimes, randomly. /shrug

I still view these scenes as commentary on the culture they are trying to criticize. if you are uncomfortable or find the villains actions disgusting that is kinda the point right?

You can make the argument they are a poor criticism, but idk that it would be right to think they are so bad that they are simply supporting the actions as acceptable.

Ideally, those who design these objectives would think of the consequences.

Ideally, it'd just loop back around and reoffer cancelled options once all other options have been completed.

The alien assaulting Momo was weird but you could even let it slide because it was purposelly exagerated cartoonish and you could say there wasnt that sexual malice on the aliens.

But the onsen scene with Momo, now that was an entire different beast. Those werent aliens nor fiends, but perverted malicious men assaulting in a very realistic way a young girl.

And it wasnt even draw like a joke. It was almost like a scene that could potentially happen irl.

This was awkward, and the story kinda of forgetting it like it wasnt a big deal was another no-no part for me. This exact scene in a more serious story could result in a life long drama for a woman. But in the story, Momo called them perverts, punched them and move on.

This is a fictional story, but they took too lightly one of the worst thing that can happen for a woman.

Perhaps sexualizing children isn't the best way to characterize it, but it's clear the author(s) intended to place genitals and sex as prominent themes throughout the first season. I didn't read the manga (I don't think I even finished season 2), but I don't think there's any need to make the aliens concerned with genitals from a plot standpoint. Since the show is about children, it's a little creepy to make that into a primary plot point from my perspective.

Of course, there's still a spectrum. It's nowhere near as creepy and pedophilic as something like Big Mouth. I'm not a puritan advocating for censorship. There's nothing wrong with children watching these shows, either; they're obviously more relatable for people who are currently dealing with the struggles of puberty. Just not my thing, I guess.

set Allow Windows Key to ON in the windower launcher, it is on the advanced page of the profile settings iirc

I ended up finishing my sparks exchange for the week early (yesterday) because of the extra sparks from vana'bout objectives.
Talk about a catch 22.

Watching Dandadan as an adult just made me uncomfortable with all the child sexualization. I guess it's not that uncommon a concept in anime, but they took it a little too far for my taste. To be fair, I'm sure it's intended for a teenage audience like most shonen.

This is caused by a change in how windows treats apps that disallow windows key. if you want normal alt tab you have to allow windows key through. The rise of this issue is why the switch_focus addon was written.

which ver did you roll back to? i quit playing since 25h1 broke alt tab for me

Also just noticed, Sparks of Eminance reward sum for today is also mislabled. It gives 20, not 10.

Yeah can't do this one either, thanks to the weekly cap...

I'm having this issue too, I thought it was just me! It's specifically FFXI that's like... being resistant? sliding away from? alt-tabs. And I've never had a discord overlay on anything, ever, so it's not that.

I was just coming to report this.

A minor point, but I feel like most players ought to be moving to Shneddick Ring at this point in the game anyway.

haha yeah I bought skillup books on Sunday and oops! didn't investigate all the roe objectives ahead of time with crime packets! get wrecked, nerd!

For the Sparks VB Daily, if you spend all your sparks this week, you are unable to complete it? Seems like BS >.>

Nice! Is there a group going or how many people do we need these days to do the Aeonic? :p

I loved Izaya <3


I'm in a good mood today. Wuthering Waves released a new unit last night and I got her for free with the rolls I earned from playing the game. Won my fourth 50/50 in a row.

I'm having an issue where I need to push alt tab multiple times to get to a ffxi instance, even though it should have been the next window. This is on windows 11. It's very annoying.

I'm a controller guy myself. I had found that if I clicked the FFXIDB map addon that it would send my controller inputs to every instance of FFXI. That stopped working, but it was super useful for stuff like Oseem, D.box, gob box, ect. I'd love to be able to toggle that.

Huh, I wonder if this is the cause for a strange behavior for Controller/Hybrid I’ve been seeing only just recently. I always just move the mouse and click on the window of whichever alt to control them directly but lately it’s been attempting to clone all inputs across all characters, movements and all lol. Can be useful in some instances but not when I can’t control it 0_0.

The work-around I found was the click anywhere on the desktop background BEFORE attempting to select another character lol hopefully this is just something weird with Discord and this change fixes the shenanigans. Thanks for that.

Also, movement speed is rounded to even percentages on the client, but the cheer may actually be 3% in the server code. Similarly, Bolter's Roll looks like only even percentages when measured in isolation on the client, but may actually have odd values in there that we just can't experience because of the rounding.

I think for the Reive objectives (colonization or wildskeeper) you need to do enough (via time and or damage/actions) to get a positive evaluation, when i was doing the colonization one last night my main got it in 2, my friends (ie mule) took 4 because he was on RDM and undergeared so the 2nd and 3rd ones with other people there I wasn't able to do enough to get evaluated before it ended and no credit (so just standing there will not work).

Switch focus was a god send for getting around the alt tabbing changes. Would highly recommend it.

I really like Dandadan. Compared to all other modern shows, it's an absolute gem. Season 2 did not feel near as polished as season 1. I had to rewatch season 2 after it was all out to enjoy it. 1 week at a time is not the way to consume Dandadan or any other 20min show.

Your take on how Ken reacts to Momo is funny to me. You see it as he's uncomfortable, but I don't believe that's the case. It's not that he's uncomfortable, he's never experienced these things. The inner dialog between Ken and Momo hits home with me so much. I overthink absolutely everything too and I've had the exact thoughts/feelings Ken experiences.

Overall I enjoy the show, but I do think season 1 blew season 2 out of the water. Doesn't give me hope for the longevity of the show.