fullscreen

[BushWookie]

i cant get the game to go into full screen, it stayed in windowed even after i change it to fullscreen in settings......whats going on?

[Lily]

This happens to me too, I think it automatically changes to borderless if you tab out of the game. I disabled fullscreen optimizations and I press alt+enter (fullscreen shortcut) after tabbing back in or starting the game. Seems to work for me, god knows if it's actually in fullscreen tho lol.

[BushWookie]

ill have to try that, still stuck in windowed mode

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by BushWookie:

ill have to try that, still stuck in windowed mode

Many have discovered, the game runs smoother in Windowed Borderless - and I can't play this game without Alt-Tab. As soon as you do that you're in Windowed Borderless anyway.

Run the game and the native monitor at the same resolution - and you'll never know the difference between Full and Windowed Borderless.

[Porkhammer]

Depends on your rig, on mine it runs better in fullscreen. Test and try out for yourself first.

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by Porkhammer:

Depends on your rig, on mine it runs better in fullscreen. Test and try out for yourself first.

True enough - mine likes Windowed Borderless better, but it doesn't matter - I'm Alt-Tabbed out in minutes anyway. Lucky, I guess.

[CunningLow-Life]

I never alt+tab... FULLSCREEN Optimization winning. I cannot play in window mode lol..

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You won't notice the difference between Full Screen vs Borderless Window Mode. Why are people so picky? It makes zero differences. The difference is zero ALT+TAB delays. You NEED background apps to run while you play a game like this, like maybe Task Manager + Resource Monitor at the very least.

Games do not run better in one mode or the other. If so then your PC settings might be a culprit as to why that is true for you.

The game stays in Full Screen if you press ALT+Enter.

GTAV is the same way, ALT+Enter being the toggle between Borderless Windowed Mode vs Full Screen. You'll know you were in Full Screen Mode because then when you attempt to ALT+TAB, there will be a slight delay. Once in Windowed mode, there is zero delays. So then just switch back to the game and press ALT+Enter; bam now you're in Full Screen Mode.

[BushWookie]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

You won't notice the difference between Full Screen vs Borderless Window Mode. Why are people so picky? It makes zero differences. The difference is zero ALT+TAB delays. You NEED background apps to run while you play a game like this, like maybe Task Manager + Resource Monitor at the very least.

Games do not run better in one mode or the other. If so then your PC settings might be a culprit as to why that is true for you.

The game stays in Full Screen if you press ALT+Enter.

GTAV is the same way, ALT+Enter being the toggle between Borderless Windowed Mode vs Full Screen. You'll know you were in Full Screen Mode because then when you attempt to ALT+TAB, there will be a slight delay. Once in Windowed mode, there is zero delays. So then just switch back to the game and press ALT+Enter; bam now you're in Full Screen Mode.

im playing on an MSI gaminglaptop...windowed is not as big ad my full screen its only like halfe of my full screen it doesnt go out to the ends of my screen and just have a dumb border its ACTUALLY A WAY SMALLER SCREEN, in windowed mode its only the size of half my actual screen that my problem

[BushWookie]

my windowed mode doesnt take up my full screen thats the problem its a smaller window thats only about half the size of my actual screen so instead of playing with a 20 inch screen i only have a 10 inch window, and its hard to see, how do i change this so it uses my full screen?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by BushWookie:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

You won't notice the difference between Full Screen vs Borderless Window Mode. Why are people so picky? It makes zero differences. The difference is zero ALT+TAB delays. You NEED background apps to run while you play a game like this, like maybe Task Manager + Resource Monitor at the very least.

Games do not run better in one mode or the other. If so then your PC settings might be a culprit as to why that is true for you.

The game stays in Full Screen if you press ALT+Enter.

GTAV is the same way, ALT+Enter being the toggle between Borderless Windowed Mode vs Full Screen. You'll know you were in Full Screen Mode because then when you attempt to ALT+TAB, there will be a slight delay. Once in Windowed mode, there is zero delays. So then just switch back to the game and press ALT+Enter; bam now you're in Full Screen Mode.

im playing on an MSI gaminglaptop...windowed is not as big ad my full screen its only like halfe of my full screen it doesnt go out to the ends of my screen and just have a dumb border its ACTUALLY A WAY SMALLER SCREEN, in windowed mode its only the size of half my actual screen that my problem

That means you're not selecting the native screen res within the game settings. Borderless Windowed Mode should look 0% differences over Full Screen.

I see many players obviously are not configuring the game settings.
Go into the game and go to the Story Mode tab. From there go to Settings. Change ALL of the settings you wish to change BEFORE entering the game world. Once you make all your changes, exit the game and relaunch it. To ensure they are all saved to the proper local files. You want the game screen res to be whatever your laptop screen is supposed to use; whatever is native for it. Such as 1366x768; 1920x1080; etc. If you have available options for Refresh Rate, select the highest available option for that.

Now this game had a major odd bug and let me quickly explain it so it makes perfect sense to at least why its an issue for most folks.

When you load up the game to change your settings, ensure the game is set to Full Screen in the settings. Why? Because it has various issues if its set to any of the Windowed Modes, then from there going to change the screen res and apply it. So ensure it is on Full-Screen and the Screen Res and Screen Refresh are set. If you play Story Mode, leave VSync On. As it greatly helps get a proper sync during the in-game cut-scenes. If you moved on to play the Online Mode, then you can disable VSync if you prefer cause in RDO it won't need to be on.

So for example I will set to:
Screen = 1920 x 1080
Refresh = 60 Hz
Screen Mode = Full Screen

Now APPLY. Make all of the other game settings changes you might need to do, then once done exit the game and relaunch it. Next launch, when the game is playing the R* intro movie short; press ALT+Enter. Now your screen res + refresh should not have changed, but what you did was change from Full Screen to Borderless Windowed Mode. Now leave it that way.

Again if the game screen window changes to where it doesn't take up the entire screen space you have available, then you have the screen res in the game set incorrectly. You always want a game to run at the native screen res. Otherwise it will be some lower screen res getting stretched when you choose Full Screen Mode. Which makes everything look ugly and blurry.

[firestorm]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

You won't notice the difference between Full Screen vs Borderless Window Mode.

Strange how full screen/windowed mode both produce a screen that's at your native resolution isn't it.

It's almost as if the games telling people something.. lol

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by firestorm:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

You won't notice the difference between Full Screen vs Borderless Window Mode.

Strange how full screen/windowed mode both produce a screen that's at your native resolution isn't it.

It's almost as if the games telling people something.. lol

They certainly look the same to me (1920x180 - Game and Monitor), but mine absolutely, positively runs smoother in Windowed Borderless. Ain't no doubt about that.

I also get 5 more fps with Motion Blur on - and have been told that can't happen either.

AMD Equipment - messin' with everything in an un-natural way I guess...lol

[pike]

set gpu display scaling to full panel in the laptops gpu control panel, that should fill the screen

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by pike:

set gpu display scaling to full panel in the laptops gpu control panel, that should fill the screen

I forget a lot of people are trying to play this game on their wrist watch or that display on the refrigerator.

I guess that's a bit different than my desktop...lol

[firestorm]

Originally posted by JuiceWSA:

I also get 5 more fps with Motion Blur on - and have been told that can't happen either.

AMD Equipment - messin' with everything in an un-natural way I guess...lol

Motion blur is very natural, just not simulated that well in games the majority of the time.
When growing up, kids looking out a moving cars window have all noticed the natural blur, and also the effect of focusing in on a single object, which removes the natural blur for a few seconds at least.

Old enough to remember the rubber pencil trick, grab a pencil/pen (solid object) with two fingers, shake hand rapidly up/down, that solid object looks at if it's bending like rubber.
Hey, entertainment was cheap in the days before video games,
We generally just called it outside! lol