Can someone help me compile this into a portable version?

[SecondLeaseGamer]

I purchased this app, and its worked great for me, however. I want to be able to play some older indie games on my HTPC. Games run in fullscreen on my PC fine. But looking for configs, I found that Borderless Gaming runs as admin and writes to AppData. Why this is done is absolutely beyond me as older versions (which were free) ran portably without Admin permission.

As the source is freely availabile, Im interested in compiling a build that I can use without admin permissions that is self contained. If anyone has any information on how to do this or where to look, I'd be greatly appreciative.

[klepp0906]

Im with you ^
have an older version i just opened up in an attempt to be able to run games in 1080p when using surround (gives me some crazy options due to crazy aspect ratio) and it said a newer version was available.

went to look, and the newer version is no longer portable. Unfortunately making it so is above my paygrade but i figured id bump/add another to the wish list.

[SecondLeaseGamer]

Please?

[Creekie]

I'll look into it.

[SecondLeaseGamer]

<3

[Kaldaien]

Special K does all of this, just FYI :) I feel like an ass pointing my own software out here, but I don't sell my software so, it's not like I'm competing for market.


There are two ways SK can do borderless.

There's a global injector that functions similarly to Borderless Gaming's UI doodad, but doesn't require admin privs. (unless you need SK injected into a game that's running as admin -- THAT requires admin and I feel so strongly against that practice that I won't even explain how to make my injector run as admin)


There's also a mode where you can take the Special K DLL and drop it into your game's directory and the game will load the DLL (even if the game's running as admin) without you having to run any additional software with admin privs. I strongly suggest _this route_ for any scenario where your game has to be run as admin.


I don't think BG's flexible enough to do what I described as option #2 :-\

So I'll just leave this alternative here in case it helps:


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=933337066

[SecondLeaseGamer]

But does your tool only support steam games? Im looking to borderless fullscreen games like RPGMAKER XP titles and PsychoWaluigi which dont nattively support Fullscreen.

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by DMJohn0X:

But does your tool only support steam games? Im looking to borderless fullscreen games like RPGMAKER XP titles and PsychoWaluigi which dont nattively support Fullscreen.

Well, technically it can be made to inject into non-Steam games by setting up a special regexp whitelist file.

I don't dabble with very many non-Steam games and laughably, the simpler thing is just to install all of your non-Steam games to a directory with SteamApps in its path, lol. That automatically triggers game detection for any software that creates a window even without the regexp whitelist.


The drop-in DLL solution will work for:

Any game that uses: d3d8, ddraw, dinput7 or dinput8, dxgi, d3d11, OpenGL. RPG Maker tends to fall into DDRAW / GDI+ or OpenGL as I recall. I believe it would work by naming the DLL OpenGL32.dll.