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Fullscreen windowed mode

Post by TigerLord »

Is it possible to run X3:TC in windowed mode, but fullscreen? Some games allow you to. I have the PC specs to run it as such.

My google searches brought up some scripts from 2007 but it wouldn't work.

I'm on Win7 64bit
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Post by pulzarokkit »

In the launcher select windowed mode and adjust the resolution to match your desktop resolution.
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Post by TigerLord »

It's not a true fullscreen windowed mode because the taskbar still appears and some of the sides are lightly cut.

I game at 2560x1600 and some menu buttons are cut. I found a "run in background" option which mimics what I wanted to do.
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Post by TTD »

Not sure what you are trying to do but "Run in Background" allows you to Alt/Shift out of the game and allow the game to continue running.
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Post by CBJ »

What TigerLord means is running the game in windowed mode but with window positioned so that the display area, as opposed to the window border and controls around it, exactly matches the screen size. The answer, unfortunately, is no, the game doesn't support that. The closest you can get is to choose a resolution that's very slightly smaller than your screen.

Note that from the 3.2 patch, X3TC supports the "res.dat" file from X3AP which allows you to create custom windowed mode resolutions and could help you set up a resolution that is as close as possible to what you are after. See the X3AP survival guide for details.
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Post by A5PECT »

Exactly how much freedom does that .dat file give you?

Can I make up wacky aspect ratios like 1753 x 524 and use them with AP?
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Post by CBJ »

There are some restrictions on the resolutions, but yes, you can make up strange resolutions and aspect ratios. I can't promise the game will still look sensible if you get too "wacky" with them, but it will do its best.
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Post by Probe1 »

This thread was very useful. I will test it out later.

I've had a problem with windowed mode. At least one line on the screen gets smushed and looks poorly. Maybe 1950x1080 or something.. hmm.

Thank you.
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Post by CBJ »

I think I know what you're referring to. I've seen it in X3TC and X3AP in Windowed mode under Windows 7, but I'm not sure if it happens with the other games in the series or under other OS versions. It doesn't appear to be anything the game has any control over.
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Post by Probe1 »

Yeah I have a screenshot of it somewhere digging it up
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It's not a problem, just a quirk of windowed mode. The solution was easy enough- don't use windowed mode. But now I'll investigate the solution proposed by altering the games resolution to fit better.

I believe KloHunt3r is running a 1920 by 1080 resolution as well and may have the same issue.
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Post by CBJ »

Yes, that's the thing I was referring to. I did spend some time investigating it but wasn't able to find anything in-game that could cause it. It seems to be a quirk of the way windowed-mode DirectX applications are rendered. We will continue to look out for possible ways to solve it.
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Post by Probe1 »

In all honesty that'd be lovely but it's not a selling point. It feels like you would have to make full screen windowed mode and that seems rather difficult when I could just play full screen and not have the issue. Thank you all the same.
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Post by RustInPieces »

TigerLord wrote:Is it possible to run X3:TC in windowed mode, but fullscreen? Some games allow you to. I have the PC specs to run it as such.

My google searches brought up some scripts from 2007 but it wouldn't work.

I'm on Win7 64bit
I was wondering the same thing. Full screen alt tab doesn't seem to work for me, I can alt tab out but it sits there with a blank screen when i alt tab back to the game.
I am trying to run windowed mode so I can alt tab out to look stuff up. If I run with the taskbar on auto hide, it pops up when the mouse is on the bottom of the screen (game is not on top I guess), and I can see firefox on the bottom when taskbar is hidden.
example: http://imgur.com/NLe8G,DiFxq

obviously if taskbar is not on auto hide, it stays on the bottom of the screen:
http://i.imgur.com/DiFxq.jpg

I want to run the game at 1920x1200 with a borderless window, no taskbar on the bottom of the screen.

I found this thread with a forum search, it seems like a program that moves the window, but I don't know if it will help, or tag the game as modified (I do not want a modified tag, especially just to fix something like this that shouldn't be an issue in the first place. I am running at desktop resolution.
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Post by vtecem »

There are 2 possible work-arounds for this issues. I know they aren't fixes but they at least allow you to get rid of the task bar.

Either auto hide the task bar so you can't see it, or open task manager and end process on explorer.exe while the game is running.

When you're done just start a new task in task manager and put in explorer.exe.

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