Fullscreen, but has a window border?

[BizarroJesus]

This was the first time I tried playing the game, and I don't know for sure if I just messed something up, but the game shows itself as a "fullscreen window" while parts of the main menu go past the borders.

Any idea how to delete/edit any setting files I might have messed up, since uninstalling the game hasn't reset anything.

Thanks in advance.

[Laptop]

Think that's just the way it is, make sure the resolution setting is correct and not on x16.

[jspaceman]

hmmm, not exactly sure what you are describing but when i tried to run this game on the highest resolution most of the game screen itself would get clipped out. i set it to 1280x1024 and the entire game screen fits perfect. see if that works for you.

[BizarroJesus]

Okay, you know how it looks if you just have a folder open in explorer, but it's full screen? It looks like that for me. So a tiny white bar around the edge, and a header on top. The opening menu also clipped past the edge.

[Laptop]

What is your desktop resolution?

[BizarroJesus]

Dual monitor, but the resolution on the monitor the game is being played on is 1920x1080. I have the game set to the same res.

[mfg.Carlos]

i have the same problem
win 10
the game starts in a window, the close X is on the top left side not like in windows top right
my desktop resolution is 1920x1080
i have to set the resolution to 1600x1200 this is the only resolution (the higher ones) that fits perfect without losing parts of the game screen

[Psychometric]

I'm having this problem on my Windows 10 desktop PC, but I played it on my netbook running Windows 7 and it did the full screen correctly.

What's even weirder is I can't actually set the game to windowed mode as it says I need to set my desktop to 16 bit mode. But the fullscreen mode is showing a window border and title bar.

[Harzzach]

There is a proven solution. Well, sort of.

GOG.com just released their version of "X - Beyond the Frontier" and "X-Tension" (http://www.gog.com/game/x_gold) with a wrapper which takes care of this. You start the wrapper, the wrapper starts the game, no visible borders on any resolution. Still no proper support for widescreen though. But finally, we got rid of these stupid frames :)

Edit:
Much better solution: I just downloaded my Steam version to check if the wrapper can be applied to it ... and there it is already. Has Egosoft updated the game without telling anyone? No borders, no hassle, no problems.

[Laptop]

Originally posted by Harzzach:

There is a proven solution. Well, sort of.

GOG.com just released their version of "X - Beyond the Frontier" and "X-Tension" (http://www.gog.com/game/x_gold) with a wrapper which takes care of this. You start the wrapper, the wrapper starts the game, no visible borders on any resolution. Still no proper support for widescreen though. But finally, we got rid of these stupid frames :)

Edit:
Much better solution: I just downloaded my Steam version to check if the wrapper can be applied to it ... and there it is already. Has Egosoft updated the game without telling anyone? No borders, no hassle, no problems.

The game did recieve an update a few weeks back for improved compatibilty with Windows 10, I think the borders may have been fixed before though.

[Roseder]

Originally posted by Harzzach:

Much better solution: I just downloaded my Steam version to check if the wrapper can be applied to it ... and there it is already.

Can you elaborate on the wrapper thingy please? Where is it? How do I tell it to make frames go away?

[MaChao]

Originally posted by Roseder:

Originally posted by Harzzach:

Much better solution: I just downloaded my Steam version to check if the wrapper can be applied to it ... and there it is already.

Can you elaborate on the wrapper thingy please? Where is it? How do I tell it to make frames go away?

I second that. No matter how much i fumble with the ingame settings or the splash screen thingy, its either clipped or super low res.
I also tried fullscrenize and that results in the same issues.

[MaChao]

I can add that my game doesnt seem to keep my settings from the last session.
Although i keep the box for it checked in the launcher, it automatically defaults back to 800x600 16bit Fullscreen (with border).

[S̨̛k̀͡͞y̵͜͝Ń҉͝e͢t]

Hey, i play with 1280x720 and with 1920x1080 in not windowed mode (fullscreen), but game-interface is not correct, ang go out from screen. In 1024x768 - work good, but in 1920x1080 - i can not see all interface (keyboard-info menu when press on key "H").

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

Reddit: I have to play it in windowed mode to get the FPS smooth and reduce the resolution to 1074x678x32bit or below to get all the UI now on windows 10 (window 7 worked perfectly fullscreen).

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I used to be able to play this fullscreen on my win 8.1 machine, when i recently reinstalled now the window border issue is there now. :(