#system settings

A system settings stimboard with silver gears!

Featuring the shopping bag from the eShop, Nikki from Swapnote, the little thing that helps you connect to the internet, Mr. AR from AR Games, Arcade Bunny from Nintendo Badge Arcade, the Face Raiders icon and the parakeet from Nintendo 3DS Sound.

Apple is working on revamping menus and app UIs across macOS 15, with the Mac’s System Settings app seeing the biggest reorganization since it was redesigned in macOS Ventura (released on October 24, 2022) and renamed from “System Preferences.” Marko Zivkovic for AppleInsider: ‎ Individual settings within the app will be reorganized based on priority and overall importance, people familiar with…

With macOS Ventura, you can set your Mac to automatically log out the current user after a set period of inactivity. This helps ensure that your information is secure when your Mac is unattended. On your Mac, choose Apple menu  > System Settings, then click Privacy & Security in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.) Click Advanced at the bottom. Turn on “Log out automatically after…

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System Settings

It is important to remember that these will be account wide. Every current character you have, every new character you create will share the same system settings. Open the menu with either ctrl+K on the keyboard or start > settings > System Settings on game pad and you get this:

[Image ID: cropped screenshot of the FFXIV system menu with the red buttons on the left labeled with arrows. From top to bottom they read: Display settings, Sound, Graphics, Gamepad/controller, Theme, Other, and Accessibility /end ID]

This is your system menu. Unless you Know what you’re doing I wouldn’t suggest messing with Display or Graphics* settings, though they do make it fairly easy to not fuck it all up. If you change anything on any tab, in order to save the changes you must remember to hit apply. I recommend pressing it frequently if you’re changing multiple things bc if you get one thing right and another bad but don’t remember the original or new setting of either you’ll have to fiddle with the first over again if you didn’t save it before moving on. I’ve had to do this many times when messing with volume.

(* Graphios settings, however, does let you turn off glare and Water Refraction. If either of these cause you issue, the settings to turn them off are towards the bottom of the tab and clearly labeled. Please keep this in mind bc the water refraction used to trigger my motion sickness.)

Mouse: lets you change cursor size, sensitivity and drag

Sound: breaks down all the different sounds in the game and lets you control the volume of each of them.

Gamepad: lets you decide to keep it enabled when tabbed out, turn vibration on/off, stick sensitivity, and some button shortcut options. If you play with a controller I recommend looking at it

Themes: Dark, Light, and Classic. Classic is the retro FF menu with the rich blue with white text, dark is my screenshots and light is the same coloration as speech bubbles

Other: where screenshots download, time before AFK, & cutscene audio language

Accessibility (PC Only): Visual Alerts for volume/sound and three color filters (Protanopia, Deuteranopia, and Trianopia)

[Image ID: four of the same screenshot of an aethernet shard. the top left is normal, top right is Protanopis, bottom left Deuteranopia, and bottom right Trianopia /end ID]

Sound Settings