Topic on Talk:Final Fantasy XIII

An edit a couple months ago an edit changed the borderless fullscreen windowed from "Use Windowed Borderless Gaming. Start the game in windowed and add it to the program. Then use the program to adjust the window to your monitor resolution." to "On by default. Set to full-screen mode in launcher."

As far as I know, this still uses normal full screen mode in DirectX when full screen is selected in the launcher, or am I wrong? The standard fullscreen behavior still seems to apply when I run it. Also, if it is borderless fullscreen windowed mentioning "on by default" makes no sense as there's no 'normal' full screen option available in that case.

I don't think we actually care if the game is running in "complete" (was exclusive the right word?) fullscreen or just borderless windowed (as long as the screen is 100% used by the game content it's fine imo)

Said this, I know nothing about this game.
I found this though

If that's the case, why bother mentioning borderless fullscreen windowed at all (TBH it is a dubious now with most articles just noting it as a hack with a reference to a common 3rd part tool)? However, there are obvious differences between traditional full screen and windowed full screen: rendering, vsync/tearing, performance, and multitasking behavior. Either way that seems like a discussion best taken to the general forums as it affects about 1,000 articles.

BTW the link is referring to Gedosato options (3rd party). Maybe the editor had a 3rd party tool running and did not realize it. I guess I'll eventually revert that section to the norm for articles as retesting confirms fullscreen is still traditional fullscreen and windowed mode still has borders. Thanks for the input!

We mention borderless fullscreen windowed because clearly, that has the advantages of windowed mode (fast alt-tab) with the immersion of fullscreen mode.

I mean.. Especially in the past exclusive fullscreen could be awful in some implementations

and besides, it was the only fullscreen available
so that's why if a game supports it, it's not a news

Exclusive fullscreen does not count as borderless.

An easy test for borderless is to open some windowed program (e.g. Calculator) while the game is running. A game running in borderless windowed mode will remain visible behind the windowed program whereas a game running in exclusive fullscreen will be minimised when the focus switches to the other program.

Some games don't have a dedicated borderless option, instead hiding the normal window border when the desktop resolution is selected in-game. A few games use borderless by default, and some don't have an exclusive mode (e.g. all WinRT games from the Windows Store).

I always thought it was a "faux borderless" mode, but at least I know the actual name nao.