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Glossary:Borderless fullscreen windowed

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Play StarCraft II and World of Warcraft side by side in fullscreen

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

Manualy completly override the size of a game's border sending it off screen.
Slightly overly complicated, not compatible with certain games.
Instructions

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.
Can get overly complicated to use.
D3DWindower has to be run with admin rights on. See Windows compatibility mode.
Instructions

3DAnalyze

3DAnalyze [1] has many features alongside a forced windowed mode.
Instructions

DxWnd

Great for Win95/98 like games such as StarCraft, Diablo and Quake.

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

Instructions

Scripts compilation

Borderless scripts

Fullscreen script

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

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/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


References