Gaming in Windowed Mode

[HR4]

How many play games in windowed mode. I have just tried it out for Arma 2 and it seems o.k, I don’t usually play in windowed mode, but it got me to wondering how many do or how many have tried it out...

Sorry if this has already been discussed..

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[orderoftheflame]

I play full-screen borderless windowed for the instant convenience of tabbing in and out when possible. Otherwise, windowed is just for little indie puzzler type games.

 

[olivier renault]

You loose a little bit of performance, but borderless window is good for tabbing in-out. If the game has it, I use it.

 

[Aeleys]

You loose a little bit of performance, but borderless window is good for tabbing in-out. If the game has it, I use it.

You do? i have never seen performance drops when doing this

 

[Fledge]

The only games I've played with borderless insta-tab are Blizzard games. What others are there?

 

[JDMaverick]

Only ever played WoW windowed.

 

[HangTime]

The only games I've played with borderless insta-tab are Blizzard games. What others are there?

Quite a few, even Quake can do it.

Personally I always play fullscreen with the exception of Football Manager.

 

[PGdude]

Some recent Source games have borderless windows.

 

[orderoftheflame]

Some recent Source games have borderless windows.

You can enable it on all the Source games with the advanced launch settings.

I believe you can with the GoldSrc games too.

 

[just Scott]

Can't play games in full screen anymore. Too much alt tabbing. If there's no borderless window mode then I use shiftwindow to adjust the window so I can't see the borders.

 

[Drake5]

I always play in Windowed mode. To much skyping/msn/browsing in between rounds.

Does running in a window have a big affect on performance?

 

[Quick Mustard]

Usually play MMO's in windowed mode and other games in fullscreen.

 

[chaparral]

Does running in a window have a big affect on performance?

SLI doesn't work in window mode



(Unless the lastest nvidia drivers now support SLI in window mode ..As i no checked for this for years )

 

[Sin_Chase]

Any game that supports borderless windows I enable it, very useful in itself but doubly do with dual screens where you can move mouse out to do other stuff and still have game visible on primary monitor.

 

[FeFiDoh]

hmmm I usually have full screen but a few times I have alt tabbed (last night tf2) I couldn't get back in game.
How would you go about full screen borderless?

 

[Sin_Chase]

In Source games it's available in video options along with regular Windowed and Fullscreen modes.

 

[Phatjayunoi]

Does running in a window have a big affect on performance?

Depends on the game, it's graphical settings or maybe how much you are running at the same time.

Few games might stutter or won't run as perfectly smooth than fullscreen. Funnily enough I find this the case with emulators. I tend to play fullscreen with them because it runs so much smoother.

But for the most part and if you have a good system, it shouldn't be too noticeable.

 

[Randomface74]

yeah all the time - always tabbing

 

[orderoftheflame]

In Source games it's available in video options along with regular Windowed and Fullscreen modes.

Are you sure? I only get fullscreen and regular windowed. I don't recall ever seeing a borderless option there, certainly don't have one in TF2 at the moment.

You can enable it though.

• Right click on TF2 (or any source game) in Steam and select "Properties".
• On the "General" tab, click "Set Launch Options".
• Add "-window -noborder" in the box.
• Click "Ok", "Close" and launch TF2.

Job done. You can also add "-novid" to skip the videos when launching the game and get straight in.

 

[MeMeMeMe]

SLI doesn't work in window mode

Crossfire is the same.