PSA: How to make borderless window work correctly - guide

[Errtus]

Hi, seems Owlcats still didn't figure out how to make borderless window not minimize correctly in all situations (bless their souls, next time for sure XD ) , so if like me you like to switch between multiple screens without the constant minimazing / maximizing of the game, there's an easy workaround !

Right click the game in your steam library, go to properties and paste "-popupwindow" in launch options (first tab).

Now launch the game and just switch to "Window" from borderless in graphics options and voila, you get a borderless window, that doesn't minimize, EZ, GG.

Cheers, hope this helps someone !

[Lunaticked]

You are a hero.

[MaLal]

Th.....thanks. :C

[Errtus]

Originally posted by MaLal:

Th.....thanks. :C

dev myself, just not for games, I think this is a "run in background" unity player property that needs to be enabled, but I dunno really, my only guess tho XD

[Janfin]

Mmm yes, unity engine so thats our only option.

[Bunisher]

Now comes another question to the borderless... Any way for the game not to lose focus whenever you tab out? As in the music and sounds not stopping when you're tabbed out?

[Arc]

Originally posted by Bunisher:

Now comes another question to the borderless... Any way for the game not to lose focus whenever you tab out? As in the music and sounds not stopping when you're tabbed out?

The very point of tabbing out is to unfocus the game :3

Don't have the game so dunno if there is a toggle in-game for pausing while not in focus. If not, shoot a message to the developer to implement it.

[Bunisher]

Originally posted by Arc:

Originally posted by Bunisher:

Now comes another question to the borderless... Any way for the game not to lose focus whenever you tab out? As in the music and sounds not stopping when you're tabbed out?

The very point of tabbing out is to unfocus the game :3

Don't have the game so dunno if there is a toggle in-game for pausing while not in focus. If not, shoot a message to the developer to implement it.

There is no such option, thats why I'm asking. It is not uncommon for a game to still play the sounds and the music when you're tabbed out. Especially if you're playing in Borderless Windowed mode.

[Arc]

Originally posted by Bunisher:

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Unity3D does not have have a debug flag that you could use to pause/unpause the game (for reference: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CommandLineArguments.html ), so it's down to the developer.

Some games will have a toggle option, some games will throttle the rendering (Source engine), some games will have framerate limit slider for uncofused window (Grim Dawn), and some do not even have proper borderless (ehm.. ehm.. :3).

Sadly nothing you can do about unless there is project-specific flag, but that's up to the developer to disclose.

[Errtus]

Originally posted by Bunisher:

Originally posted by Arc:

The very point of tabbing out is to unfocus the game :3

Don't have the game so dunno if there is a toggle in-game for pausing while not in focus. If not, shoot a message to the developer to implement it.

There is no such option, thats why I'm asking. It is not uncommon for a game to still play the sounds and the music when you're tabbed out. Especially if you're playing in Borderless Windowed mode.

it's another thing they would have to implement, siimlarly to the minimizing thing. I haven't seen a toggle for that at the moment, though seems like a good thing to add to the wishlist for people who want it :).

I personally can't get over the fact that I can't drag the map with middle mouse button now, got super used to it in kingmaker, a way to get it back would be awesome imho. turning the map is awesome, not going to lie, but I need to move the map much more often that I want to rotate it and without it I can't jut use the mouse to play the game effortlessly like the lazy old man that I am :)

[GuiltyBlaze]

Thanks OP!

[Memnarch]

or use my godIike Background 3rd party program which does it perfect in every game that faiIs at doing borderIess

[Peelsepuuppi]

lol I already had to use external software to fix this, good to see there's a less intrusive method.

[Pilda]

Thanks for the workaround. I didn't know about it. I used SpecialK or Borderless Gaming for that.

Let's hope DEVs will fix one day.

[Errtus]

and I didn't realize people use 3rd party software for these, thanks for the info :D

[Arcimbaldo]

Is there a way to stop it from pausing whenever you alt tab? It's a bit of a pain e.g. not being able to google something while you wait for your party to run to the other end of the map