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Psycho May 17, 2017 @ 5:42pm
Windowed vs Fullscreen Please Help Me
I bought the game and it started up in full screen and worked for the most part. Then, I changed it from full screen to windowed mode because of crashing difficulties, and now every time I start the game it's completely black. I can still hear the game but can't see anything but a black screen. I couldn't figure out how to reverse this, so I deleted the game and redownloaded it. The settings have not changed, and I can't figure out how to change it from a black windowed screen back to full screen that actually works. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks! I only got through 1 episode so this is very frustrating.
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ZyPHeR_0 May 17, 2017 @ 6:04pm 
The simpliest solution you can try: Alt + Enter key combination ( toggles fullscreen on and off for most programs )

The most common sense option: try to find a file containing the game setting and either reset it to default or change the specific setting if you know which one is.

All programs are among other things designed to run by default in a wide variety of computing enviroments by default, that is to say, for games they always come in a base graphic configuration that ensures that they will work for most cases, and then depending on the users rig one can increase the quality setting to match our own preferences, much programs have configuration files that can be stores in many locations other than the game's main folder like in the profile default documents folder, program data ( hidden directory ) or in a special folder under "Documents" called "My games", in such cases the setting wont be overwritten by reinstalling the game because the only things that are getting reinstalled are the files in the main game folder, this happens with the save files as well and varies depending on the game.

Hope you found useful this information and you'll be able to solve your problem. :page:
Psycho May 17, 2017 @ 6:19pm 
Originally posted by Zeydan:
The simpliest solution you can try: Alt + Enter key combination ( toggles fullscreen on and off for most programs )

The most common sense option: try to find a file containing the game setting and either reset it to default or change the specific setting if you know which one is.

All programs are among other things designed to run by default in a wide variety of computing enviroments by default, that is to say, for games they always come in a base graphic configuration that ensures that they will work for most cases, and then depending on the users rig one can increase the quality setting to match our own preferences, much programs have configuration files that can be stores in many locations other than the game's main folder like in the profile default documents folder, program data ( hidden directory ) or in a special folder under "Documents" called "My games", in such cases the setting wont be overwritten by reinstalling the game because the only things that are getting reinstalled are the files in the main game folder, this happens with the save files as well and varies depending on the game.

Hope you found useful this information and you'll be able to solve your problem. :page:

Thank you so much, I was able to find the file in documents and make it work again!
ZyPHeR_0 May 17, 2017 @ 6:58pm 
Your welcome! :D
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Date Posted: May 17, 2017 @ 5:42pm
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