Play all your games in Windowed borderless mode.

[Hellstrong]

Hey all, i prefer my games to be windowed for alt/tab but i also prefer my games to look fullscreen, i know there's allot of "scripts" out there for specific games but i figured id write up one app to enable it for all my games.
You can download it here

if you find this app useful feel free to give rep.

Posted an update
Should be totally noob proof now ;-)

1.1 Notes:

• App now needs even less memory. (and I'm planning to get it down even more ^_^)
• There is now a proper settings menu, so you can edit your game settings and apply them without restarting the game. (The config file is still available for whoever wants to do it manual) Settings are launched as a separate process to not increase need for resources.
• Config file is written more tidy to increase reading/writing actions speed for those who have a huge list of games added to it.
• When selecting "Add window" it will time out after 15 seconds in case you chose the option by accident.

=====INSTRUCTIONS=====
Adding a game's window.

1. Run the app and start up a game.
2. Make sure you run the game in windowed mode before adding it to the app.
3. After you have set your game to run windowed, click the app's tray icon and select "Add window"
4. Go back to your game and while the game window is active press "F3"
5. Your game should now be in windowed border-less mode, your settings are saved so the app will recognize your game whenever it runs in windowed mode again and automatically set it to be borderless.

Removing a game

1. Click the app's tray icon and select "Open game settings"
2. select the game and press Delete, this app no longer manages that games window style.

Setting a windows position
By default the borderless window is positioned at coordinates 0,0 on your screen, in the rare event that the game's window is an odd one you can edit the coordinates in the config file by changing the "PosX" and "PosY" values in the Game settings.

Attempting to re-size a window
By default the game doesn't re-size, but in case its necessary you can do so in the game settings, which can be found by clicking on the tray icon.

DXWnd instructions
This app detects DXWnd if a DXWnd folder is in the same folder as this app's exe.
You can download my simplified version of DXWnd here or get a advanced version maintained by ghotik here
If you downloaded my version just extract the contents to the same directory as WindowedBorderlessGaming.
If you downloaded the other version create a folder called DXWnd 1st and then extract the files there.
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This app was made and tested on Win7 pro x64 and is meant to work on Windows XP or higher. on both 32 and 64 bit.

This app has been successfully tested with the following games.

1. AirMech
2. Alan Wake
3. ARMA II
4. ARMA II: Combined Operations
5. ARMA II: Operation Arrowhead
6. Assassin's Creed
7. Battlefield 3
8. Beat Hazard
9. BioShock
10. Brütal Legend
11. Call of Duty: World at War
12. Caster
13. Ceville
14. Containment: The Zombie Puzzler
15. Costume Quest
16. Crysis 3
17. Crysis Warhead
18. Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition
19. Darksiders II
20. DayZ
21. Dead Pixels
22. Deponia
23. Deus Ex: Human revolution
24. Diamond Dan
25. Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
26. Droplitz
27. Duke Nukem Forever
28. Dwarfs - F2P
29. Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
30. ePSXe
31. Ever Quest 2
32. Fable III
33. Fallout 3
34. Future Wars
35. Grand Theft Auto IV
36. Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
37. Hitman Absolution
38. Killing Floor
39. Kung Fu Strike - The Warrior's Rise
40. LightFish
41. LIMBO (read instructions here)
42. Madballs in Babo:Invasion
43. Mafia II
44. Magicka
45. Mark of the Ninja
46. Minecraft (refer to this post)
47. Mount & Blade: Warband
48. Nexuiz
49. Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
50. Orcs Must Die 2
51. PAYDAY: The Heist
52. Plain Sight
53. PlanetSide2
54. Pound of Ground
55. Psychonauts
56. Red Faction: Armageddon
57. Renegade Ops
58. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
59. Resident Evil 5
60. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
61. Ridge Racer Unbound
62. Saints Row
63. Saints Row: the Third (you can also use this launcher)
64. Shank 1
65. SimCity
66. Skyrim (refer to this post)
67. Sleeping Dogs
68. Space Pirates and Zombies
69. Street Fighter X Tekken
70. Strike Suit Zero
71. The Darkness II
72. The ship
73. The Sims 3
74. The Walking Dead
75. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition (instructions here)
76. The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
77. Titan Quest
78. Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
79. Tomb Raider II
80. TombRaider
81. Torchlight
82. Toy Soldiers
83. Trials Evolution Gold Edition
84. Tropico 4
85. WarZ

This app is known not to work with the following games

• Batman: Arkham City
• Damnation
• DC Universe Online
• Dungeon Defenders
• Puzzle Kingdoms
• the Haunted: Hells Reach

[jasonbecker83]

Can you please provide a virus total scan ?
looks interesting!

[Hellstrong]

Originally Posted by jasonbecker83

Can you please provide a virus total scan ?
looks interesting!

https://www.virustotal.com/file/ce11...is/1335728971/

Also no one ever had issuess with my other apps i put on the forum :-)
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=2279474

[Pheace]

I certainly hope some time soon developers will start using Fullscreen Windowed more. It's really great.

[Hellstrong]

Yes i like it much better, alt/tabbing gives issuess with some games if they are fullscreen and it goes to slow.
The window style's are set by the games engines, and allot of game devs use a 3rd party engine, so lets hope engine devs add it in :-)

[camper_]

Any idea on how to make Revelations windowed?
And would you share the source code?

Minor note, it crashed VLC player

[TheSagetEffect]

So far it works with Skyrim, but it only seems to fit the resolution that the game window has. Skyrim doesn't support 1600x900 in window mode. Is there any way I can force 1600x900 via your app, not the game?

[Hellstrong]

@camper_ you tried to set VLC player borderless? if you added it by accident just remove the window like in the instructions in post#1
I dont have Revelations, so i wouldnt know

@TheSagetEffect It probably wont be possible with most games to change the window size, but ill add an option so you can at least attempt it.
PS: it would be better if the game has a config file you could edit to force your native resolution., i dont have the game myself

[TheSagetEffect]

Also works with Minecraft (for anyone wondering, I set the resolution with the Magic Launcher available on the MC forums).

[TheSagetEffect]

Originally Posted by Hellstrong

PS: it would be better if the game has a config file you could edit to force your native resolution., i dont have the game myself

Just went digging through the settings .ini and found that exact option. Now I have it running in borderless window mode. Great mod, I'll have to see if it affects performance at all.

For any other Skyrim addicts out there, you can manually change the resolution to options not permitted in the launcher settings by going to the SkyrimPrefs.ini (not skyrim.ini) in Documents/My Games/Skyrim.

Find and change iSizeH to the height value (usually smaller, for 1600x900 it would be 900) and iSizeW to the width value. You'll want to enable windowed mode before you do this, by ticking the box in the launcher settings.

[Amy]

I wonder if it's gonna make me VAC banned tho.

[Hellstrong]

Originally Posted by Amy

I wonder if it's gonna make me VAC banned tho.

Good point, all it does is check the window,class, process-name and style of the windows, it most likely wont detect that, but i cant say 100% for sure.
However since VAC does only check while in multiplayer game, just to be sure you can close the app after it set the window style, cause it really doesn't need to do anything after setting the window style.

PS: all source engine games have a borderless option already built in.

1. Find the game in your library
2. Right-click the game, and open "properties".
3. Select "set launch options"
4. Add "-windowed -noborder" to the text box
5. Click OK and exit. The game will now launch in borderless window mode.

[Hellstrong]

@TheSagetEffect glad you got it solved, i added resize options if you ever run in to a similar issue, just note it most likely wont work.
Info on how to in Post #1

[Xylon1]

It works relatively well for Torchlight, as you can see in this screenshot. Some parts are a bit misaligned, but that doesn't seem to cause any problems.

[Ardbug]

It works ok with M&B warband as well.