Window Borderless Issue

[Plague Doctor]

This game does not even have full screen?
Clicking any option in any menu, including simply loading into the map, puts the game back into window mode.

[Arma Pilot YT]

Yup, i must always go to setting and than change to full screen mode in Arma reforger

[Plague Doctor]

Yeah I've made a few threads about it lately to see if any bis acknowledgement or if any had a solution had happened.
I've uninstalled and the game won't be reinstalled again even if they fix it.
As a customer I'm done with bis now. Yes I knew it was early access but this type of issue tells a lot about what this project is and how they view their customers simply as pockets. I feel sorry for the Devs if this project as the fundamental basic bugs indicate this is a tech example side earner with very little to no resources due for abandonment when A4 releases.
It's tarnished bis reputation especially for the newer players to the series.

Bravo to the Devs especially the sound guys, what you're doing is really something new for an Arma game.

[Im a Bag]

Fix to the forced windowed mode issue :

Go to settings, set the Window mode to "Windowed" (if it isn't already).
Then lower your resolution to something like 1280x720 (something smaller than your screen).
Switch back to "Borderless fullscreen" in Window Mode.
Now set the render scale to 100%.


Now the game should stay in borderless fullscreen forever. Just don't touch the Window mode option anymore, or that will make the issue come back. If it does just repeat the procedure. (credit to Tvrdi)

[Im a Bag]

Originally posted by Rhinopithecus!:

that is not a fix, but a work-around , the problem still exists.

unfortunately im not Bohemia so i cant ''fix'' it so i hope my ''workaround'' helps :|

[Paul]

Originally posted by Rhinopithecus!:

BI has made the Nth most idiotic decision of using the rediculous DirectX from M$ !!!
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DirectX problems and limitations: DX12 doesnt support exclusive full screen mode !!!

It's not a DirectX problem that BI don't know how to properly make the application/renderer not to switch to windowed mode arbitrarily.

[Paul]

Exclusive fullscreen is not needed as borderless windowed mode behaves the same in terms of performance - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/demystifying-full-screen-optimizations/

[HVA_HeadBusta]

Originally posted by Rhinopithecus!:

Originally posted by Paul:

It's not a DirectX problem that BI don't know how to properly make the application/renderer not to switch to windowed mode arbitrarily.

Well the truth is it both's falt,

a) DX12 has no FSE,
b) BI didnt care about "implementing" it as many other game engine studios did.

you see if: M$ didnt remove FSE , this problem would not have existed.
if BI was more respectful to us the customers, they would have "fixed" it.

In my memory, I have never seen this problem with other dx12 game.

From my limited research on google...
Exclusive fullscreen isn't provided by directX, but rather a separate library - DXGI. It's development is independent from D3D and based on OS releases, rather than D3D releases. I.e. both DX11 and DX12 can use exactly the same DXGI devices and if DX11 supports fullscreen - DX12 should do it too. And there are no signs, that fullscreen is marked as deprecated or it's support is dropped:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/dxgi/nf-dxgi-idxgiswapchain-setfullscreenstate

[Paul]

Originally posted by Rhinopithecus!:

NO , are you blind ??? can you read ??? we are all complaining about issues here there and you come and say "heu you know dude it is the same, bla bla bla" who spoke about performance ????

You're crying that dx12 doesn't have exclusive fullscreen, exclusive fullscreen was due to performance until W10/DX12. Moreover, this does not guarantee that the problem would not exist. It could easily jump from exclusive fullscreen to windowed mode for same reason as now. That's roughly the line :)