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| + | {{ii}} Easy to use application to automatically manage borderless gaming. | ||
| + | {{++}} Remembers added windows to automate the process. | ||
| + | {{++}} Offset and resolution options to play on secondary or multiple monitors. | ||
| + | {{++}} [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/WindowedBorderlessGaming/discussions/0/846966336034334756/ tested to work on over a 100 games] | ||
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===[https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming Borderless Gaming]=== | ===[https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming Borderless Gaming]=== | ||
{{ii}} Open source and simple to use application. | {{ii}} Open source and simple to use application. | ||
Revision as of 21:45, 11 July 2014
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Play StarCraft II and World of Warcraft side by side in fullscreen
Graphics and video
Resolutions
Video settings
- Field of view (FOV)
- Windowed / borderless fullscreen
- Anisotropic filtering (AF)
- Anti-aliasing (AA)
- High-fidelity upscaling
- Vertical sync (Vsync)
- Frame rate (FPS)
- High dynamic range (HDR)
- Ray tracing (RT)
- Color blind mode
Hardware
Key points
- Fast, seamless task switching with no risk of crashes or freezes with no performance costs.
- Eliminates screen tearing.
- AMD/ATI cards do not support Crossfire in this mode.
- Most games will have problems with edge scrolling on multi-monitor setups.
- Windowed mode will need to be set first for games that do not natively support a borderless mode.
Windows
Windowed Borderless Gaming
- Easy to use application to automatically manage borderless gaming.
- Remembers added windows to automate the process.
- Offset and resolution options to play on secondary or multiple monitors.
- tested to work on over a 100 games
Borderless Gaming
- Open source and simple to use application.
- Dynamic, adapts easily when switching to a different resolution on another monitor. A manual toggle is also available.
GameCompanion
- Full of customizable features.
Fullscreenizer
- Lightweight easy to use utility, useful for TVs.
ShiftWindow
- Manually completely override the size of a game's border sending it off screen.
- Slightly overly complicated, not compatible with certain games.
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Unity
- Games built on the Unity engine can be run in a borderless window by adding the launch argument
-popupwindowto the main executable and checking the 'windowed' option in its launcher.
AutoHotkey
- Either AutoHotkey L or Basic are required for the following scripts.
- Games utilizing PunkBuster as an anti-cheat measure may mistakenly treat AutoHotkey as a cheat.
Saving and running a script
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Scripts compilation
Borderless scripts
Fullscreen script
- This script will full screen the currently active window onto your primary monitor with the F12 key
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Fullscreen toggle script
- This script will toggle between fullscreen and windowed modes when pressing F12 as well as hiding the taskbar on the fullscreen mode.
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Multiple monitors script
- This is a snippet from the Fullscreen toggle script.
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Linux
- Most Linux windows managers allow fullscreen applications to natively run under a borderless mode by default.
Another tip that exclusively works on Linux is running your game in a separate X server. This allows you to switch between your game and your desktop using CTRL+Alt+F7/F8 and it increases performance and stability. To do this, edit the launch options for your game on Steam as follows:
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Improved tiling windows manager
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