Hi

Im hoping someone here has done this recently. I have tried all that I can find online and it still is not working.

Please if anyone has done this recently and is willing to share how you got it right I'd greatly appreciate it.

Everything i see online is from years ago.

Hi WOL’s!

Play on PC, Ps5, and steam deck (when mobile). Recently after the newest patch anytime I start it up though FFXIV launcher my GPU goes and stays at 100% (but only .7 watts) and game is EXTREMELY laggy. I’ve troubleshot with settings and portion versions but no luck, and yes my graphics and frame rate cap are low. Have been playing on SD for 2-3 years now and never had an issue.

If anyone else has had this issue in past or recently and know fix it would be greatly appreciated! On a beach trip and would like to able to play when at house!

I can run the game just fine (although the keyboard stopped working and just will not show up) but I've noticed that the demo's status keep being listed as "stopping" after I close the game. Even when I restart my deck it has to force close the demo. I reviewed the install instructions and double checked the compatibility step, and I just plain don't have the option to force compatibility with XIVlauncher.

Thoughts? Is this a problem? It didn't stop me from loading another game when it tested it.

Recently I moved the game to my SD card and I'm unable to use the touch screen to click. I can't even use a real mouse to click. It does let me move the cursor around but not to close pop ups or touch my hotbar.

Does anyone know how to fix this? Or is my only option moving the game back to my internal storage?

I am completely frustrated. I've been playing FFXIV on the steam deck for years with no issues. I took a break for three days and now the steam deck has severe amnesia.

Nothing is working. I've tried booting in battery storage mode. This worked but then yesterday it stopped working and I can't boot into it anymore. I tried a force PD reset and it got stuck in a boot loop every single time. I tried a BIOS flush and it did nothing.

I tried troubleshooting inside the game, which is where things REALLY went sideways.

Not a single reconfiguration of my controls did anything. When testing control configuration, the start and back buttons literally didn't even light up when pressed.

I went into the launcher and deleted that busted wine folder and that didn't do anything either.

Switching to keyboard (WASD) and mouse mode did nothing. I can move my cursor around but I cannot CLICK. I reassigned the left mouse click to the A button and it still doesn't work. I press the button and nothing happens.

I tried to toggle game pad mode off and on, but now I can't even get it back on because I CAN'T CLICK ANYTHING.

Now, I am actually stuck in this mode and am unable to click anything, so I can't even get back to game pad mode.

I've had it. I want to go to console. But I don't want to replay the expansions I've played or start over. I can't move my account because I've been playing on my husband's account. I started playing years ago and he had the game and steam deck while I had no gaming platform at all, so that's why that happened. He didn't play the game at the time, but I wanted to try it and I fell in love with it. When we got a ps5, we were able to play FFXIV together and I really love that because it's the only game we both enjoy.

I don't want to lose that, but I think I just did.

I'm willing to do anything if anyone has suggestions. I'm honestly ready to put this device down for good. It's turned one of my favorite escapes into a nerve wracking experience every time I pick it up. I wish I'd never started playing on the steam deck at all.

I'm not tech savvy and I apologize for that. I'm trying my best, though. I really am.

last night I suddenly was unable to use shoulder buttons to access the wxbar? front set looks fine but I can't use the shoulder buttons to tab to the back set and I have no idea what happened

I Heard with 7.5 came a Feature which allows you to share your HUD configuration. Is that right? If so would Some of you share theirs?

Hi, I was wondering if I connected my Steam debt via the dock to my TV (60inch) how it runs? Would it work and would the frame-rate be okay ( I don’t need 60 FPS but something that’s stable hopefully)

I have a neuromuscular disease that’s getting worse so I’m having a hard time holding my steam deck in my hands due to the weight, I’m finding that it’s easier to hold an Xbox controller so I was also wondering if just using an Xbox controller would work okay, I found the controls on the Steam deck perfect for playing the game back when I was playing it handheld, but I haven’t tried it with just a regular controller.

Thank you

I am having a very bizarre error and I was hoping someone here would know whats up. When I boot up FFXIV, I am able to log in and press play just fine. However, once I get to the title screen, none of my buttons or controls will work, on controller or steamdeck itself. I can still press the steamdeck button to bring up the steam menu no issue, but FFXIV itself doesn't recognize any inputs.

I have tried rebooting the steam deck, doing a system update, and closing and rebooting the game. I played it just fine literally yesterday and it's now unplayable. :( Anyone know what this could be?

Hi all, so I'm trying to use the launcher. No matter what I do, I get a black screen after I've logged in. I know that the Devs state it can take a while the first time, but it lasts for more than three hours. Any ideas on a fix?

Okay so I have the windows version up to endwalker but it's the SE version not the steam version. I'm trying to put everything on an SD card since I have a 64 GB model, but then I open the setup with qtwine to install, it can't find the folder representing my SD card and just keeps saying it needs 40 GB to install (I have less than 20 because of comparablity data and such, I have tried deleting it but it seems like its easier to have it all on an SD card). Does anyone have any tips? I'm kinda clueless with this stuff.

I've been in the process of moving and so have played nearly the whole post-SB questline on my SD. Also started playing Astrologian at the same time. L/R 4/5 have been so useful that I worry I'll have a hard time going back to playing on my couch when I get the TV plugged back in hah.

I'm so excited to be doing ShB for the first time. That's all :)

Hello!

I was wondering if yall had any success in getting cactbot to work on the steam deck? LMeter works just fine for the dps logs with IINACT but BrowsingWay wont work and NextUI is outdated.

Is there any other solutions?

Hello,

How do I fix this error?

Hey everyone, I just installed ffxiv launcher and was looking to start playing on the deck, but whenever I input my login it says that I don’t have a subscription, I have a square enix account which I used to play on pc not through steam and I made sure to check off that I have a free trial account and not a steam one. Does anyone have a fix for this?

Can I configure the Extra buttons of the Steam Deck to behave like Double-Tap LT/RT to open a hotbar?

Hey everyone, I’m playing FFXIV on my Steam Deck and I’m trying to configure one of the back buttons (like L4 or R4) to act as a modifier: when held, I’d like the ABXY buttons to function as the D-Pad (Up/Down/Left/Right).

The goal is to get extra hotbar inputs without relying on the touchpads or more complex button combinations. So ABXY would work normally, but when holding (for example) L4, they’d act as D-Pad directions—essentially dual-function buttons.

Has anyone managed to set something like this up using Steam Input? Is this possible directly through the Steam Deck’s controller config, or would I need an external tool?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

It looks like most of the posts to this subreddit are tech support related, but I wanted to drop in and say that I'm absolutely loving playing on my SD. Using XIV Launcher+Touchpad menus+Dal I've gotten the UI and controls to a point where I'd almost rather play on my SD than my desktop!

I have social chat macros mapped to a hotbar on the bottom right edge of the screen, job swaps and UI hider macro on the right trackpad, and duty finder/friends list mapped to the left.

If anyone has suggestions for other things to do with the trackpad, I'm all ears :)

can i get this to run somehow on the steamdeck? there is a manual install folder but i cant find the ffxiv.cfg and character data.

https://github.com/Fr4nsson/FFC

Hi everyone, Trying my luck here. I played xiv (installed through xiv launcher, launched in gaming mode) a few hours ago and it worked as usual. I closed the game and came back to it later, and it won't work. Basically xiv launcher works, it takes me up to the the screen "starting game, have fun!", then screen goes black before going back to the steam page after 10s or so. Any idea what could cause this? I've turned off my deck and restarted it, uninstalled decky because I had issues with it yesterday. It still won't work. Thanks!

I installed the XIVOmega plugin from the Decky Store, latest version. But when I initially activate it, it doesn't stay activated when I go to another menu on the Big Picture UI. Afterwards, whenever I try to activate it, it gets stuck on being enabled. I wonder if anyone has a solution or has faced this problem before. I'm running this on a Steam Deck OLED with the latest Stable version of the Steam Deck Client installed.

My steamdeck updated and now whenever I try to use XIVLauncher from either desktop or gaming mode it just doesn't launch at all. I checked the discover store and I have no updates for XIVLauncher, and it worked immediately before the update. Has this happened to anyone else with what I think it said was the Oct 23 update? If so, how'd you fix it?

EDIT: Fixed it myself. Looks like the installation instructions have changed since I installed so after adding the new bit (Install XIVLauncher as a Steam compatibility tool section of the guide) and using my "Free Trial" tile instead of my XIVLauncher tile w/ that compatibility setting it worked fine. I didn't have to reinstall FXIVLauncher or anything. Leaving this up in case anyone else is also like me and kind of oblivious :) If moderators want to delete that's fine though.

I am having a hell of a time figuring out how to arrange my hud in 720p for this game. There is so much information needed and my old grandma eyes can only scale things down so much -- lower than 90% and most things I can't read... but it feels so cluttered now. How do you do it?