Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.

Glossary:Borderless fullscreen windowed

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Revision as of 21:47, 26 November 2016 by RaTcHeT302 (talk | contribs)

Windows Points

Games launched in a Windowed Mode are Double Buffered which act as games using a VSync Mode which removes any Screen Tearing.

General Points

Borderless Windowed modes are Windowed modes with no borders.
Launch the desired game in a Windowed mode and then apply a Borderless Windowed mode to remove any borders and center the window.
Seamless task switching with no risk of crashes or freezes with a minor loss in performance.
Games using Mantle don't work with AMD CrossFire while using a Windowed mode. Use a Fullscreen mode instead.[1]

Windows

Keeps custom color profiles in use.

Borderless Gaming

Open source and simple to use application.
Allows the taskbar to be hidden while also being on top.
Customizable window size and window bounds per game.
Cannot force windowed mode in games if not natively supported.
Poor compatibility with Unreal Engine 3 and GameMaker games.
Instructions

GeDoSaTo

Useful for Unreal Engine 3 games which Borderless Gaming does not support.
Can force windowed or borderless mode if games don't offer them.
Only DirectX 9 supported; no DX10, 11, 12 or OpenGL, and no 64-bit games.
Slightly unintuitive interface.
Instructions

Simple Runtime Window Editor

Allows manipulating the size, position, and styles of a game's main/child windows.
Instructions

AutoHotkey

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

Saving and running AutoHotkey scripts

Instructions

Fullscreen Toggle Script

This script will remove any borders and center the currently active window on the primary monitor by pushing F12.
Instructions

Fullscreen Toggle Script (Hidden Taskbar)

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

Someone needs to check whenever this explanation for the script is correct or if 0, 0, and A_ScreenWidth/Height mean that the script automatically detects the user's resolution.
This is a snippet from the Fullscreen toggle script.
Instructions

Linux

Most Linux window 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 instance. This allows you to switch between your game and your desktop using Ctrl+Alt+F7 and Ctrl+Alt+F8 (buttons may differ, may be F1 through F12) 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

Source

Instructions

Unity

Instructions

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