Wallpaper Engine still running in background behind game (borderless window)

[FKDZ]

Hey,

First of all I love this app, but after the most recent windows 10 update (10.0.17134 Build 17134) (which I suspect is the cause) I have run into a big issue, The wallpaper is not stopping and free-ing memory when playing a game!

I have 2 monitors, one with chrome browser (maximized) and one with the game Fortnite, the wallpaper behind chrome, stops, but the wallpaper behind Fortnite (which runs in windowed borderless) does *not* stop.

You can see the resources being used in this screenshot: https://i.gyazo.com/04b3d9b0d2fd9e8415c412dc19dc04bf.png

Now when switching Fortnite to fullscreen, the wallpaper stops and saves memory. But every borderless windowed game I play now suffers from the wallpaper still running in the background even when the settings are set up to make it stop.

Any help is greatly appreciated, I assume this is Windows 10 messing it all up, will there be a update for wallpaper engine to counteract this in the near feature?

Thanks for any help.

[Biohazard]

Please share a screenshot of the playback settings that you are using, you can upload it to www.imgur.com for example.

Which monitor is the primary one? Is Fortnite truly covering the entire screen or is the window smaller than the screen resolution? Can you also share a screenshot of the entire desktop with Fortnite open?

[FKDZ]

I just got a update from wallpaper engine, it seems like it's fixed?

Here are the settings: https://i.imgur.com/SQdC2Ia.jpg

Here is the full desktop view: https://i.imgur.com/Uwca2iH.jpg

Left monitor is primary.

The process seems to die down now when I am in the fortnite window. So I think your new update fixed it.

[Biohazard]

Thanks. Then you must be on the beta version, but no, nothing was changed about this actually.

Originally posted by FKDZ:

The process seems to die down now when I am in the fortnite window. So I think your new update fixed it.

I think this might have caused confusion - the fullscreen detection actually requires the fullscreen window to be in focus to take effect like you say.

With multiple monitors this is probably not what you would expect. It does this because there are actually a bunch of other invisible windows that would otherwise be detected as 'fullscreen'. Including some borderless fullscreen games when 'minimized' (because they don't truly minimize at all).

[FKDZ]

Ahh, alright, I get it. Thank you for the support!!