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Revision as of 16:49, 3 October 2022
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
For a list of games, see List of games that support borderless fullscreen windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed refers to a mode where the game presents the rendered image in a maximized window without borders making it cover the whole monitor. This is opposed to a regular window that uses window decorations around the contents of the window, or fullscreen exclusive mode where the game takes control over the output device and where each application switch required a display mode switch to occur.
This feature is known by a lot of different names between games, such as borderless mode, maximized window, fullscreen window, or any combination thereof. Some titles might also refer to it using less common names, such as scaling or even fullscreen if the game does not support exclusive fullscreen mode.
Key points
- Borderless fullscreen windowed offers similar benefits as normal windowed mode, but with a fullscreen-like appearance.
- Native feature in many modern titles, and can often be forced in the majority of older titles.
- Can sometimes be used to enable wider or higher resolutions via resizing the game's viewport.[1][2]
- Seamless task switching with no risk of crashes or freezes with a minor loss in performance.
- Eliminates screen tearing on Windows (only on Vista and later) due to Vertical sync (Vsync) being applied for all windows by the Desktop Window Manager (DWM)..[3]
- ..but will subsequently cause additional input lag as well, due to the aforementioned vertical sync. It is possible to disable the vertical sync, however it requires either disabling DWM (only possible on Vista/7) or by using a certain presentation mode and flag.[4]
- Games that crash or become unresponsive in will often continue to present themselves over the top of task manager making termination (aka force quit) difficult. Using the hotkey alt+o brings up the options menu when task manager is selected, even if it isn't visible, and then pressing A selects the option to always display task manager on top. Unfortunately this obstruction also frequently affects bug reporting tools too, in which case it is recommended to switch away from borderless display mode while trying to reproduce the issue.
Windows
Borderless Gaming
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Notes
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Special K
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GeDoSaTo
- Works with games on the Unreal Engine 3. Allows Windowed modes to be forced on games which don't have them.
- Limited to DirectX 9 and 32-bit games.
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Simple Runtime Window Editor
- Allows manipulating the size, position, and styles of a game's main/child windows.
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Fullscreenizer
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Windowed Borderless Gaming
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AutoHotkey
See AutoHotkey for instructions. |
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Linux
- Most Linux window managers allow fullscreen applications to natively run under a borderless mode by default.
Gnome
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KDE/Plasma
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I3
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Cinnamon
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Mate
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Pantheon
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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:
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xinit %command% :1 Notes
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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
- ↑ Lantern | WSGF
- ↑ Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team | WSGF
- ↑ Microsoft Docs - Double Buffered Graphics - last accessed on 2018-04-13
- ↑ DirectX Developer Blog - For best performance, use DXGI flip model - last accessed on 2018-04-13
- ↑ Unexpected Error has occurred popup during installation · Issue #408 · PeterTh/gedosato