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Cloud syncing save data
Bug workarounds
Skip videos and cutscenes

Borderless fullscreen windowed
Save game locations
Mods considered essential

Console commands and cfgs
Latest patch or fan patch
Hardware

Common errors
Digital/retail differences
Graphical issues

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Featured Article

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L.A. Noire Box Art

L.A. Noire is a 2011 neo noir crime video game developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar Games. It was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The game draws heavily from both the plot and aesthetic elements of film noir, stylistic films made popular in the 1940s and 1950s that share similar visual styles and themes including crime, sex, and moral ambiguity. The game uses a distinctive colouring-style, but in homage to film noir it includes the option to play the game in black-and-white. Various plot elements reference the major themes of gum-shoe detective and mobster stories such as Key Largo, Chinatown, The Untouchables, The Black Dahlia, and L.A. Confidential.

Troubleshooting

If you are experiencing slowdown, lag, or frame-rate issues:

Run the LANLauncher.exe.
Click Options
Enter "-str" and/or "-npd" and/or "+jobs_numThreads 0" (without quotes, just the dash and the text with a space in between each command) in the command line field for single threaded renderer, which may improve performance or compatibility on some systems.

When you try to run the game from the launcher it brings you back to the launcher in an endless loop, or sometimes it crashes altogether after appearing to re-perform part of the setup. (more...)

Featured Hack/Tip

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

Borderess fullscreen windowed is the display option of having a game run in a window but appear to be running in fullscreen. Also known as borderless windowed fullscreen, maximized windowed fullscreen, or fake fullscreen. On PCGamepedia we will refer to this feature as 'borderless fullscreen windowed'

Borderless fullscreen windowed is a feature well supported by certain developers, including Valve whose modern Source engine supports the -noborder -windowed launch option. Similarly, Blizzard have included this option in their games since World of Warcraft, where the feature is known as Fullscreen (Windowed). However, most other game developers have neglected to add this feature into their games. Fortunately, fullscreen windowed can be hacked into almost any game using a combination of Windows utilities.

Comments

Borderless fullscreen windowed mode appears just like a fullscreen game, and usually has fewer issues with alt-tabbing and multitasking.

Benefits

Less prone to crashing from using alt-tab.
Alt-tab and multitasking is seamless and quick.
Game is still immersive as window borders are obscured.
Run more than one game at once.
Run a browser or an FAQ alongside a game.

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