Borderless fullscreen issues {SOLVED}

[Tidgem]

Borderless and windowed are both slightly wrong, borderless is correct except in the wrong part of the screen so it looks disgusting, and windowed does EXACTLY the same as borderless which is 900000% wrong. Both basically open a window version of NMS that I can move around, but not resize or click the fill screen button in the top right.

Fullscreen is the only mode that works but I hate it because this game has like a 6 second tab in and out speed which is painful for people like me who watch youtube on the other monitor.
Other issue is you gotta load a save to change the settings which A. is dumb as hell and backwards, and B. Slows down the getting the right settings process drastically.

Thanks for reading I hope someone can help.

PS Methods ive tried so far to fix it:

Closing everything in the background
Having 1 thing open on fullscreen somewhere else
Trying each setting repeatedly
Restarting
Verifying integrity

[ZombieHunter]

Why would you play borderless over full screen? More important why does Microsoft still feel this is a valid mode? Ugh.

[Di5a5t3r]

Borderless works wonders

[Dekri]

ZombieHunter -> "like a 6 second tab in and out speed which is painful for people like me who watch youtube on the other monitor. " just read the text m8.

[DonJuanDoja]

I'll try to be nicer this time cuz last time I answered this dude got all mad.

My honest and true suggestion is to stop alt-tabbing.

My rig can handle it just fine but I'm old school and we just didn't let our computers do anything but play the game because we had to. I'm still locked into that habit. I won't even open Chrome or a Chat app. I'll just run a laptop or tablet for that...

Even if your rig can handle it, doing all that multi-tasking can still cause issues in your game. It's better to just avoid it when there's very simple alternative solutions for everything you're trying to do.

You won't convince me that multi-tasking on any computer while playing an intensive game is a good idea. It's just not. Ever.

[ZombieHunter]

Escrito originalmente por Dekri:

ZombieHunter -> "like a 6 second tab in and out speed which is painful for people like me who watch youtube on the other monitor. " just read the text m8.

Hmm don't watch YouTube when playing games? Just a thought. So if you are really watching YouTube while playing are you really playing the game? If you have to watch YouTube b/c you are so bored what does that say about your time in game?

[Lubed Skyballer]

I've been having this problem as well but closing and restarting the game usually fixes it after the third try. I also noticed there is a higher likelihood it'll fix itself properly onto the screen when all other windows are minimized.

[ZombieHunter]

Wow why do you guys buy expensive video cards only to cripple them in borderless mode? Makes no sense.

[McDonaldsnapkin]

Escrito originalmente por ZombieHunter:

Escrito originalmente por Dekri:

ZombieHunter -> "like a 6 second tab in and out speed which is painful for people like me who watch youtube on the other monitor. " just read the text m8.

Hmm don't watch YouTube when playing games? Just a thought. So if you are really watching YouTube while playing are you really playing the game? If you have to watch YouTube b/c you are so bored what does that say about your time in game?

Borderless is kinda the norm now-a-days. Some of us dont have multi-monitor setups and need to alt tab quickly to do things on stuff like discord, and other applications that run the background. Or to use google with flash player because watching videos with steam overlay is still pretty buggy sometimes.

[CobraA1]

Escrito originalmente por ZombieHunter:

Why would you play borderless over full screen? More important why does Microsoft still feel this is a valid mode? Ugh.

Because some of us use more than one monitor, and being able to move the mouse to the second monitor is very convenient. Full screen windowed is also easier when alt+tabbing to another app. Honestly I wonder the opposite: Why is there a full screen when borderless is the same thing?

[McDonaldsnapkin]

Also to respond to OP i play in borderless and have my game at a constant 60fps with no issues

[Di5a5t3r]

Escrito originalmente por ZombieHunter:

Wow why do you guys buy expensive video cards only to cripple them in borderless mode? Makes no sense.

LOL

[ZombieHunter]

Escrito originalmente por McDonaldsnapkin:

Escrito originalmente por ZombieHunter:

Hmm don't watch YouTube when playing games? Just a thought. So if you are really watching YouTube while playing are you really playing the game? If you have to watch YouTube b/c you are so bored what does that say about your time in game?

Borderless is kinda the norm now-a-days. Some of us dont have multi-monitor setups and need to alt tab quickly to do things on stuff like discord, and other applications that run the background. Or to use google with flash player because watching videos with steam overlay is still pretty buggy sometimes.

Steam overlay is very buggy since they stopped using the IE control. The browser crashes all the time.

However I have a fix. I wrote some code that will kill all instances of SteamWebHelper. Once it kills them I can then browse again. This is the process that keeps hanging inside of the Steam browser in game.

[Hathcyn]

I literally just got fed up and fixed this a minute ago, change the graphics file at the location below:

Stolen from https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/1/360672137536706032/

"I did as you guys said above but it keeps defaulting to boarded windows so I have a fix, its just a little extra line I put it but worked for me.
I went to the same place as above
Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS

<Property name="FullScreen" value="false" />
<Property name="Bordered" value="false" />
<Property name="Borderless" value="true" />

I hope it helps others to, also changing the new line of Bordered to true will make it a Bordered game so this setting works as a variable."

Edit: For clarity, I added the line with "Bordered", its not in the original file.

[ZombieHunter]

Escrito originalmente por McDonaldsnapkin:

Also to respond to OP i play in borderless and have my game at a constant 60fps with no issues

Um no you don't. No one has a constant 60 FPS in NMS even with vsync off. It hitches when streaming in data on every system ever made. It is their streaming algorithm that is the issue not PC performance. Sometimes you just can't get all the data to where it needs to be when it needs to be there.

[igotinfected]

dont use your mouse when you launch the game in borderless. works for me