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Angelus

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Forced full screen.
« on: November 02, 2019, 05:25:01 PM »
Hey hey angelus here.

I really love this game but there is one thing i hate about it. I cant play it in windowed modus.
I wanna play it in 1920x1080 windowed but its just not working, even if i uncheck the "fullscreen" box at the start.
Strangely, it works with every other resolution for example when i use 1600x900 the unchecking works and its in windowed modus.

Can someone help me pls? :(

Edit: I build myself a borderless windowed mode now. I just forced the resolution to 1910 x 978. It kinda works now.
« Last Edit: November 02, 2019, 05:38:58 PM by Angelus »
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Alex

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Re: Forced full screen.
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2019, 05:44:34 PM »
Hmm - if you play at 1920x1080 (which I'm assuming is your monitor's native resolution?) and have fullscreen unchecked, the game *will* run in borderless windowed mode, it just looks like fullscreen - but tabbing to it is faster, etc.

My understanding is that different graphics drivers may handle this somewhat differently than a borderless window at a lower-than-native resolution, though...
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Angelus

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Re: Forced full screen.
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2019, 05:47:42 PM »
It should "look" like fullscreen, yes. But its fullscreen, it takes ages to tab out and thats not normal for a windowed mode.
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Alex

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Re: Forced full screen.
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2019, 06:11:03 PM »
Ah - that's probably a graphics driver specific behavior, then, since under the hood the game creates an undecorated window. Not sure there's much I can do about this on my end, unfortunately.
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Angelus

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Re: Forced full screen.
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2019, 05:08:30 AM »
Thank you anyways for the fast answers.
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Re: Forced full screen.
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2022, 10:29:54 AM »
Quote from: Alex on November 02, 2019, 05:44:34 PM
Hmm - if you play at 1920x1080 (which I'm assuming is your monitor's native resolution?) and have fullscreen unchecked, the game *will* run in borderless windowed mode, it just looks like fullscreen - but tabbing to it is faster, etc.

My understanding is that different graphics drivers may handle this somewhat differently than a borderless window at a lower-than-native resolution, though...

Nooooo. ;D I have been playing this game since 2014, and never knew it could have run in borderless windowed mode, which i strongly prefer.
I never bothered trying to run "not in fullscreen", because that option usually means windows bars.

Well, Learning never stops.
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