Resolution in windowed mode

Mr.X

Spain115 Posts

September 01 2011 23:06 GMT

Hello.

Every time I put the game in windowed mode, the resolution of the window is always the same and can not be changed. Anyone know if you can adjust the resolution of the windowed mode somehow? You should be able to get in different sizes, but when I activate windowed mode, the ability to change resolution is blocked.

Thanks in advance.

HellGreen

Denmark1146 Posts

September 02 2011 01:31 GMT

That's how it works. You can't change that, except resizing the window by dragging it (which makes it look horrible imo). Is there any particular reason you want to run in windowed mode and not either fullscreen or windowed fullscreen?

- You can change the desktop resolution and the windowed fullscreen will follow that. If you want to have some specific resolution other the one your monitor natively has, there are ways around this too.
- You can use fullscreen and set almost any resolution ingame.

Tell us about your setup and maybe we can help figure something out.

Mr.X

Spain115 Posts

September 02 2011 15:22 GMT

My native resolution is 1980x1080. It is a screen of 21.5 ".

The reason I want to play in windowed mode is because I find it more comfortable for the eyes to control the game if I have a smaller area. Move in full screen in a space as large or even realize some things are more complicated in full screen (my opinion).

So I tried windowed mode and I find it much more satisfying. With a slight mouse movement or vision I can control virtually everything. What is the problem? Well, by default, as I said, the resolution window is too small for my taste ... I would like to increase it a little more (I think right now the resolution is locked at 1280x768 window). It is very comfortable to play in window, but that size is even hard to see some details in the mini-map, for example.

With the windowed mode option I can not stretch or shrink the window by dragging. And I've never understood the full screen windowed mode, What difference does the full screen mode?

Thanks.

HellGreen

Denmark1146 Posts

September 02 2011 21:38 GMT

You can achieve a smaller screen (gaming area) by using the "scaling" feature of your gpu.

Here's guides for Nvidia and AMD:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/249065-15-flat-panel-scaling-windows-vista
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/UnableToSetGPUScaling.aspx

Mr.X

Spain115 Posts

September 03 2011 19:46 GMT

Thanks!

You're my god!

DusTerr

2520 Posts

September 03 2011 19:59 GMT

you can actually drag the windowed mode window. either turn off the "confine cursor" option, or alt tab out of it then move the mouse to the corner, hold click and drag.

HellGreen

Denmark1146 Posts

September 03 2011 23:26 GMT

On September 04 2011 04:59 DusTerr wrote:
you can actually drag the windowed mode window. either turn off the "confine cursor" option, or alt tab out of it then move the mouse to the corner, hold click and drag.

Yeah, and I already suggested that in post #2

Seems he found a solution from the answers that were given to him.

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