The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition keeps opening in a borderless windowed mode NOT full screen

[tasosdio]

Hello,

I know that others are facing this problem as well.

Since I tried to run the game in my new pc, the game does not start in full screen. I already followed all the troubleshooter guides I found, with no result. My OS is Windows 10 and my GPU Nvidia GeForce 2080.

Can someone help me please?

[ＳＨＡＤＯＷ２ＫＫ]

"bFullScreen =0" - change the 0 to 1 and you should be good.

[tasosdio]

Originally posted by SHADOW2KK:

"bFullScreen =0" - change the 0 to 1 and you should be good.

Unfortunatelly, this is already set as such. Specifically:

fGamma=1.0000
bBorderless=0
bFull Screen=1
iSize H=1080
iSize W=1920
iScreenShotIndex=0
bTreesReceiveShadows=1

[ＳＨＡＤＯＷ２ＫＫ]

Originally posted by tasosdio:

Originally posted by SHADOW2KK:

"bFullScreen =0" - change the 0 to 1 and you should be good.

Unfortunatelly, this is already set as such. Specifically:

fGamma=1.0000
bBorderless=0
bFull Screen=1
iSize H=1080
iSize W=1920
iScreenShotIndex=0
bTreesReceiveShadows=1

Oh ok, well I notice your res is set at 1920 x 1080, is that your native res?, as you could easily run SSE heavily modded on a 4k monitor on a 1080 never mind a 2080 (btw, new Nvidia cards coming this summer:P).

Or try Geforce Experience, it should automatically put it to 4k anyway with DSR even if your native res is FHD, at least it did with my GTX 1080 before I upgraded to a 2080 Ti.

[ralphtobybob]

Be sure you're making the change in documents\my games\ Skyrim Special Edition, not the game folder.

[tasosdio]

Even when I start it via Experience the problem persists. I confirm that I made the change in documents\my games\ Skyrim Special Edition. I am frustrated...

[cheshirm]

perhaps the game is not reading that file (permission problem). set the resolution to 800x600 and see if the resolution changes. if it doesnt change, game is not reading the file.

[ralphtobybob]

Originally posted by tasosdio:

Even when I start it via Experience the problem persists. I confirm that I made the change in documents\my games\ Skyrim Special Edition. I am frustrated...

That should have fixed it. If you change the scree resolution from Steam with the Skyrim loader, the only reason the change won't stick is if you don't have the proper file permissions. Sometimes Win won't let your program change a read only file. Weird stuff happens with permissions on Win Pro. I lost two hours of gameplay once because Skyrim was locked out of the folder and saves weren't being written to disk. No errors no nothing., just no game save.

So if your screen resolution changes with the SE loader don't take, look in your Win virus settings if you're using Defender. You have to go to ransomware protection and allow SE access to your game folder. Don't expect any of this to make sense. I've had that problem only after Win updates. It's happened more than once so I finally just move Steam to a separate game folder outside of program files. We just got a Win update this week.

[tasosdio]

Ok, I tried to cange the settings to:
iSize H=600
iSize W=800

SkyrimSELauncher has automatically changed the settings to:
Resolutions: 1176x664

After hitting OK the program launched unaffected (borderless windowed mode).

I allowed SE access via Ransomware, then changed the settings to 1920x1080. SkyrimSELauncher automatically changed the settings as well. The program launched in borderless windowed mode once again.

To be honest, this is embarassing, but I am trying to solve this since I changed my pc (app. the previous April).

[cheshirm]

I may be wrong but looks to me like the launcher tries to read the file to set video settings/prerferences. it can NOT read the file so it looks at your hardware and sets things to what it thinks things should be set at then writes that to disk.

check windows security/controlled folder access? if on add exceptions for steam/game launcher/game

[tasosdio]

Originally posted by cheshirm:

I may be wrong but looks to me like the launcher tries to read the file to set video settings/prerferences. it can NOT read the file so it looks at your hardware and sets things to what it thinks things should be set at then writes that to disk.

check windows security/controlled folder access? if on add exceptions for steam/game launcher/game

I have already exceptions for both, no result. In addition, I just realised that when I try to start a new game (in borderless window mode) the game crashes!!

[cheshirm]

create a new local windows account. logout. login with the new account. start steam then game. see if problem continues.

[ralphtobybob]

I had a video drive problem once that I think affected Skyrim. Somehow, the desktop video refresh rate got changed to 24 hz which limited the available screen resolutions.
Until I figured that out, my work around was to drop screen resolution to 1360x768.

[tasosdio]

Originally posted by cheshirm:

create a new local windows account. logout. login with the new account. start steam then game. see if problem continues.

That worked!! I logged in with the new account and not only the game starts properly in full screen, all my previous saves are there too!!

What is the problem with my original account? Can I fix this?

Thank you so much!! At, last, after 1 year, I can play Skyrim!!!!

[cheshirm]

depends on how much time and effort you wish to spend to play the game on your old account.

might be a permission thing still. your new account has all the correct access permissions. your old account does not. you would have to wade thru all the settings/permissions/etc and compare the two accounts. if your old account is a microsoft windows account login and your new one is a local windows account, that would be a place to start.

or might be some other setting in the old account. you may never find a fix.

so choose:
1. keep the old admin account and run skyrim on the new one
2. move everything out of the old account into the new one

[DropBear]

Originally posted by ralphtobybob:

Be sure you're making the change in documents\my games\ Skyrim Special Edition, not the game folder.

Cheers