Difference between revisions of "Glossary:Borderless fullscreen windowed"

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Resolutions

Video settings

Hardware

Key points

A forced Windowed mode will need to be set first for games which do not natively provide a borderless mode.

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.

Windows

See Mouse locking for a mouse locking alternative.

Borderless Gaming

Open source and simple to use application.

Dynamic, adapts easily when switching to a different resolution on another monitor.

Allows the taskbar to be hidden while also being on top.

Allows games to lock the mouse to the current window.

GameCompanion

Full of customizable features.^{[citation needed]}

GeDoSaTo

GeDoSaTo and Borderless Gaming can be used together.

Allows games to be downsampled at any resolution.

Instructions

ShiftWindow

Manually completely override the size of a game's border sending it off screen.^{[citation needed]}

Slightly overly complicated, not compatible with certain games.

Instructions

Window Manager

Open source, easy to use.^{[citation needed]}

Highly configurable

Aids multimonitor setups

AutoHotkey

The following scripts require AutoHotkey.

Games utilizing PunkBuster as an anti-cheat measure may mistakenly treat AutoHotkey as a cheat.

Saving and running a script

Instructions

Scripts compilation

Borderless scripts

Fullscreen script

This script will full screen the currently active window onto your primary monitor with F12.

Instructions

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.

Instructions

Multiple monitors script

This is a snippet from the Fullscreen toggle script.

Instructions

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 and Ctrl+Alt+F8 and it increases performance and stability. To do this, edit the launch options for your game on Steam as follows:

Instructions

Improved tiling windows manager

Instructions

Engines

Unity

Games built on the Unity engine can be run in a borderless window by enabling windowed mode and adding the launch argument -popupwindow to the main executable.^[1]

Windows troubleshooting

Game crashes on startup

Certain borderless applications have to be started before the game itself and not while the game is running.

Window constantly resizes itself

After applying the borderless mode simply restart the game itself, while keeping the borderless application open.

References

↑ Unity - Manual: Command line arguments

[1] Unity - Manual: Command line arguments

[1]

@@ Line 17: / Line 17: @@
 <!-- Anything below, other than GeDoSaTo, is possibly crap, and the list would otherwise be way shorter if it was for me, I just never had the time to test this crap, I never made this list before, I made it readable -->
-<!-- Possibly redundant, and crap. -->
-===[http://runtimelegend.com/rep/fullscreenizer/index Fullscreenizer]===
-{{ii}} Small open source program
-{{++}} Lightweight easy to use utility. <!-- , useful for TVs. - All borderless app are when in a Windowed mode, because of the way the Windows manager behaves, this would be useful for TVs if it featured more Plasma like features, such as some anti burn-in feature, now that would be a nice feature. -->
-{{++}} Can apply stay-on-top flag to avoid taskbar flickering <!-- Meh -->
-<!--
-{{++}} Works great in games such as Payday 2. Time to test CIV V.
-{{--}} Each configuration has to be saved manually, and separately.
-{{--}} Unintuitive.
- -->
-===[https://github.com/CoenraadS/Full-Window/releases Full Window]===
-{{ii}} Open source.
-{{ii}} Attempts to expand the game's viewport in order to fill the entire screen, emulating a fullscreen borderless mode for games where the borders cannot be removed.
-{{++}} Supports multi-monitors, customizable window position and size.
 <!-- Had issues getting it to work, felt unintuitive, requires proper testing -->
 <!-- Might just be bad overall -->
 ===[http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/39550/? GameCompanion]===
-{{++}} Full of customizable features.
+{{++}} Full of customizable features.{{CN|reason=This software requires proper testing.}}
 <!-- It's not perfect, but it's already miles better than most of these -->
 ===[http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?page_id=582 GeDoSaTo]===
@@ Line 53: / Line 36: @@
 <!-- Possibly crap -->
 ===[http://grismar.net/shiftwindow/ ShiftWindow]===
-{{++}} Manually completely override the size of a game's border sending it off screen.
+{{++}} Manually completely override the size of a game's border sending it off screen.{{CN|reason=This software requires proper testing.}}
 {{--}} Slightly overly complicated, not compatible with certain games.
@@ Line 66: / Line 49: @@
 <!-- Doesn't seem to be working correctly on Windows 8, overall unintuitive and not easy to use -->
 ===[http://sourceforge.net/projects/mmfh/ Window Manager]===
-{{ii}} Open source, easy to use
+{{ii}} Open source, easy to use.{{CN|reason=This software requires proper testing.}}
 {{++}} Highly configurable
 {{++}} Aids multimonitor setups