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Featured Article

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Skill respec

Respec is provided by an NPC called a 'fateweaver'.

Skip introduction logo videos

The Big Huge Games/38 Studios/EA intro can be skipped by deleting or renaming "reckoninglogotrain.bik" under: 

\Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning\content\data\bink

Adjust level of detail for better graphics tradeoff

Using graphics tools (ATI Tray Tools or nHancer) to force a negative level of detail and high quality x16 anisotropic filtering may be a better graphics tradeoff.

  • ATI Tray Tools anistropic filtering is better than the option provided by the game.
  • Objects look crisper when they appear in the draw distance.

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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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