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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.
Windows
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 avaiable.
Windowed borderless gaming
- Customizable position axis and resolution size.
- Slightly buggy, can get messy to use, no longer supported.
GameCompanion
- Full of customizable features.
Fullscreenizer
- Lightweight easy to use utility, usefull 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
-popupwindow
to the main executable and checking the 'windowed' option in its launcher.
Forced windowed mode
- Great for older games which have no native windowed mode support such as the Black & White series.
D3DWindower
- Allows to have and use multiple configurations at once.
- On certain cases it might even fix performance issues allowing older games to get past 30 FPS and such.
- Might appear complicated to use at first.
- D3DWindower has to be run with admin rights on. See Windows compatibility mode.
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3DAnalyze
- 3DAnalyze has many features alongside a forced windowed mode.
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DxWnd
- Great for Win95/98 like games such as StarCraft, Diablo and Quake.
- Presets already included.
- Slightly buggy interface, in-game performance might get worse.
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
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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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