Full Screen and Windowed Screen

[FLGibsonJr]

In the Options area whether I check Full Screen or not, I get the Full Screen. Are there any known reasons for not being able to play in a Windowed Screen as opposed to a Full Screen?

Regards,

Gibson

[KG_Soldier]

No. I have played in windowed mode for a long time.

[con20or]

I think full-screen pauses if you alt-tab out whereas windowed does not - it just goes to the back like a normal window.

This used to be important for MP play - not sure if it still is though. Before if somebody playing in full-screen alt-tabbed in a MP game the game crashed.

[Leffe7]

In the Options area whether I check Full Screen or not, I get the Full Screen. Are there any known reasons for not being able to play in a Windowed Screen as opposed to a Full Screen?

Regards,

Gibson

Besides clicking on Fullscreen, you also have to select a lower resolution than your fullscreen resolution. Then it will not take up your whole screen.
With the current version I'm not aware of any problems playing in windowed mode.

[Garnier]

In the Options area whether I check Full Screen or not, I get the Full Screen. Are there any known reasons for not being able to play in a Windowed Screen as opposed to a Full Screen?

Regards,

Gibson

"Full Screen" means whatever resolution you use, it will stretch to fill the screen and you won't be able to quickly alt-tab back and forth between the game and other programs.

With full screen disabled, it goes into pseudo-windowed mode, where whatever resolution you use the game will start in the upper left corner of the screen. If you use a resolution that is the same as your desktop, it will still fill the screen, BUT now you can alt-tab and bring other programs to the front while the game still runs in the background. This is better than "real" windowed mode with a title bar, so I'm really glad Norb did it this way.

I recommend having "full screen" turned off but keeping the resolution of the game the same as your desktop so it still fills the screen.

[FLGibsonJr]

Thanks guys for the replies. I think my issue was not realizing it was a pseudo-windowed mode and needing to use the alt-tab as Garnier mentioned. I often use in other games a true-windowed mode where you always have the window border.

Thanks again,

Gibson