Borderless windowed mode 'hacks'

[Remmy]

Hey there guys! So It's been bugging me for ages, but after Ze_Pilot took 1/2 a second to google it, we've worked out how to play FA in borderless windowed mode!

If you don't know what it is, you probably don't want it, but Borderless fullscreen windowed is the display option of having a game run in a window but appear to be running in fullscreen.

So, how do I do it?!

there's two ways, both shown in this wikia here - http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Borderless ... n_windowed

The first is ShiftWindow, and the second is GameCompanion. Both work for me, with one slight problem where shift window will only work for my second monitor, and GameCompanion for my main one, but I've worked around this by using both. There's some other ways mentioned, but I've just used these as they get the job done for me. Enjoy!

Edit: here is GameCompanion with my settings uploaded :

http://www.faforever.com/faf/GameCompanion.zip

[Remmy]

Okay! So what I've found to be best is to use GameCompanion. There's a few things you need to do, but if you just replace the original config file with this, it works perfectly!

# GameCompanion.ini v1.3 by BUDA20
# Most games need to be set to your desktop resolution.
# Windowed mode is needed in the games in order to use FF MODE
# All is case sensitive! Run Again the program to Reload the ini

[GameCompanion]
ShowSplashHelp=0
StartsWithWindows=1

[AutoFFMode]
Oblivion.exe
Fallout3.exe
Fallout3ng.exe
FalloutNV.exe
FalloutNV.4gb
Morrowind.exe
F.E.A.R. 3.exe
SSFIV.exe
HL2.exe
ForgedAlliance.exe

[IgnoreFFMode]
explorer.exe
firefox.exe
chrome.exe
msnmsgr.exe
RadeonPro.exe
steam.exe

[Hotkeys]
FFModeSwich= Control + Enter


[Fixes]
AltTabFixMinimize=1
AeroDoubleTab=1
ReactivateWinKey=1
OblivionSkipInitialVid=1
fnv4gbexe=1
FFModeType=1
ForceFFMode=0

[ColonelSheppard]

thx for posting this

[Eukanuba]

What is the advantage of this over standard fullscreen?

[Remmy]

It allows you to alt-tab while the game is still full-screened, so for example if I have a second screen I can alt-tab and talk to someone on facebook for example while still having the game up, so it's far easier to switch in and out of the game.

[Ze_PilOt]

Can you post GameCompagnion somewhere ? It's impossible to download it from Nexus..

[Remmy]

updated original post with download link.

[Atragon]

Sorry for the resurrection of an old thread.

Are you saying that this worked to give you 2 full screen windows on 2 separate monitors?

[R4sperdan]

ive downloaded gamecompanian and i dont know what to do or how to use it, any help?

[Xinnony]

I prefer Windowed Normal, i can use other proram easilly.
No need ALT+TAB.