What is "Exclusive Fullscreen" that people talk about?

[Alucard †]

I'm curious what's "Exclusive Fullscreen" and how is it any different from regular "Fullscreen" ?
I never played or heard about this game before just recently got notification that its free on HB

Google yields no satisfactory answers regarding this question..

[NowThenGoodBad]

5 years and I'm reading this with no responses. Sorry Alucard, if I find something I'll post it.

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by NowThenGoodBad:

5 years and I'm reading this with no responses. Sorry Alucard, if I find something I'll post it.

I already found my answers.
Fullscreen nowdays is just what some devs call "Borderless Windowed"
and "Exclusive Fullscreen" is actual Fullscreen

[NowThenGoodBad]

Originally posted by Alucard †:

Originally posted by NowThenGoodBad:

5 years and I'm reading this with no responses. Sorry Alucard, if I find something I'll post it.

I already found my answers.
Fullscreen nowdays is just what some devs call "Borderless Windowed"
and "Exclusive Fullscreen" is actual Fullscreen

Thank you for that! I did not realize that was the case.

[Atman]

So what is the difference for an ordinary PC player with a monitor or a TV?

[NowThenGoodBad]

Originally posted by Atman:

So what is the difference for an ordinary PC player with a monitor or a TV?

There shouldn't be a huge difference. My assumption is that borderless windowed you could swap between apps easier??? (whereas some games that do true fullscreen fight to stay at the forefront)

Otherwise, just keep an eye out for any scaling or window cutoff issues and either should be just fine.

Someone else can come and correct me. Try them out and see if there's any performance difference.

[Lanani]

Originally posted by NowThenGoodBad:

There shouldn't be a huge difference. My assumption is that borderless windowed you could swap between apps easier??? (whereas some games that do true fullscreen fight to stay at the forefront)

This. The main advantage of borderless windowed is that it lets you swap between apps without minimizing the game, which is particularly useful if you are streaming or running benchmark software or other such programs. Graphically, it should not make any difference compared to (exclusive) fullscreen.

[Plastik20xx]

Exclusive Fullscreen allows the game to directly access VRAM(exclusively.) It's a big deal and most games will run better with it. For some reason a lot of people get this backwards, when you run in windowed mode(borderless fullscreen is still technically windowed) the desktop and all that jazz still has to be rendered and take up VRAM.

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by Lucky_Strikez:

Exclusive Fullscreen allows the game to directly access VRAM(exclusively.) It's a big deal and most games will run better with it. For some reason a lot of people get this backwards, when you run in windowed mode(borderless fullscreen is still technically windowed) the desktop and all that jazz still has to be rendered and take up VRAM.

Yep games mostly run better on exclusive. However there are some odd exceptions here and there.

For example Hollow Knight runs terrible in exclusive. On my end it's very choppy/jittery (regardless of vsync) but once i switch to borderless it runs like silk.

[Hemor Odin]

I found another difference in the settings. First option (Fullscreen) has another entry in the gfx settings, underneath "Vertical Synch", you see "Target frame rate". The second option on startup, (Exclusive fullscreen), does not offer that option.