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Topic on Talk:Red Dead Redemption 2

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I stand corrected. After several tests under both Win7 and Win10, I came to the conclusion that indeed the exclusive fullscreen mode is buggy and will silently fall back to borderless window mode (while still indicating "fullscreen" in the settings).

The difference is that in Windows 7 the game can force the desktop to change its refresh rate (for example 50 Hz), but for some reason it doesn't work in Windows 10. Under Win10, if your desktop is 60 Hz, the game will be locked to 60 Hz (borderless) even if you try to change the display rate in the settings.

What's also interesting is that this "refresh rate" setting is actually controlling two options: the display rate proper, but also the frame rate. Under Win7, when you set 50, you actually set 50 fps as well as 50 Hz. If you try 50 under Win10, you'll get 50 fps BUT forced 60 Hz, which will produce obvious stuttering.

In short, exclusive fullscreen doesn't work. And if you want to run the game at anything other than 60 Hz, you have to change your desktop at the desired display rate before running the Rockstar launcher. Of course that doesn't help much for GSync/FreeSync screens.