Hot answers tagged windowed-mode
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You should be able to run Costume Quest in windowed mode by setting launch parameters.
To do that in Steam, open your Steam library, right-click on Costume
Quest, select Properties, and press the Set Launch Options… button.
Enter –window and click OK. The game will now launch and stay in
windowed mode until you remove this from your launch options.
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Fullscreen is not supported out of the box but there is a dirty hack:
regedit in cmd
look for folder computer\H_KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HR\Graphics
look for fullscren (double click, set value to 0, LEAVE REGEDIT UP)
open explorer to steam>common>deus ex: human revolution folder
Hold left shift while double clicking dxhr.exe
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The answers already given are correct, but in most cases, players use windowed mode cause they are not at home, and they are used to one resolution. Pro players usually play on one certain resolution, and if they have to go to a LAN event, they tend to set the resolution on their PC to the resolution they are used to, cause even small changes can make a huge ...
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Windowed mode (or even borderless-windowed mode) has the advantage of not getting the exclusive use of the screen. This is actually good to not disturb Alt-Tabbing for example, or being able to use secondary screen easily.
In case of a one screen setting, it can be useful to activate this to avoid "desktop dropping" when you accidentally hit windows key (if ...
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Edit the system.ini file with a hexadecimal editor like HxD. I'm not sure will this help or not, because I don't have DNF, just telling how to edit the file.
Additionally you can try launching the game with screen resolution set in command line arguments. Right-click DNF in Steam, press Properties, click Set launch options and put the following line:
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The W-MODE plugin for launchers like ChaosLauncher will make StarCraft run in a window. Works perfectly, even under 64-bit Windows 7.
With this plugin, you can lock the mouse cursor inside the game window to avoid accidentally moving the mouse outside when trying to scroll, you can lock the window to prevent it from being moved, and you can have it double ...
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I don't know if this is an option for you, but since I use GNU/Linux I run Starcraft with Wine. You can ask Wine to start the application in a window and define it's resolution.
You could also use it inside a virtual machine running in a window.
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Go to the official Space Empires IV downloads sites and then go to Page 3 (page select is at the very bottom). There on the bottom of the last page is a program called Windowed SE4 Tool:
Task bar tool that causes SE4 to run in pseudo-windowed mode. Also contains handy shortcuts, such as shift-click to add 10 copies of a component to a design (or ctrl for ...
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I found this hack in a forum thread that lets you run RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 in Windowed Mode; maybe it will help.
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