No Fullscreen

[loladas]

why the game only has window and window fullscreen and not a proper Fullscreen. Is there any way to add it in the future?

[Paulie Don't Surf]

Hey there, first of all, thanks for playing Backbone on day one, we really hope you're enjoying our game and the story it tells! As far as our visual settings go, we left out Fullscreen for now but may add it in a future patch. My advice is, and for the smoothest experience possible, you ought to set your visual options to the following:

*Windowed Full Screen
*60fps Lock
*V-Sync On

Additional frames in a game like this are not going to enhance your experience however smoooooth stability will, so locking your frames or using V-Sync (or a combo of the two) will hopefully give you the most pleasing delivery.

Thanks for the feedback! :)

[vanni]

I'm also wondering and had some issues with that; played with Gamepass.

[Jan]

Fullscreen is barely properly supported by modern hw/drivers/os and should have no place in options in 2021. It's relic of the old times, no longer required, brings more troubles than anything else.

[Ozone]

Originally posted by Jan:

Fullscreen is barely properly supported by modern hw/drivers/os and should have no place in options in 2021.

An interesting article on the subject.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/demystifying-full-screen-optimizations/

[Rose 🏳️‍🌈]

It's the opposite way on Game Pass for me. The borderless option is exclusive fullscreen.

[ShugoTheRipper]

Originally posted by Jan:

It's relic of the old times, no longer required, brings more troubles than anything else.

Your right exclusive full screen is horrible I much prefer our current system.

I love having to manually turn on and off Windows terrible desktop HDR implementation to use HDR in my games and only them.

I love it when the compatibility setting straight up does not work, and I am then required to manually change my desktop resolution and refresh rate every time I want to play a high refresh rate title.

I love when Fullscreen Optimization will not allow me to take back focus from a program and you can't even escape with Alt-Tab.

I love how the filtering used with Fullscreen Optimization makes any resolution below native look worse than if I passed the raw signal to my monitor.

I love how there is no true way to fully disable it in the operating system, or true way to disable it on some applications.

Maybe the devs should stop giving players options, I do enjoy having settings removed from PC games. Yakuza 7, Evil Genius 2, Horizon Zero Dawn; all have full screen exclusive and it is terrible. PC gamers do not deserve the choice, and that 5 minutes of programming time would be a waste.

[Jan]

Originally posted by ShugoTheRipper:

Originally posted by Jan:

It's relic of the old times, no longer required, brings more troubles than anything else.

PC gamers do not deserve the choice, and that 5 minutes of programming time would be a waste.

Thank you for showing you have absolutely no idea what so ever and that your whole system and setup is horrible mess.

[bredd]

i know this is years old but i finally figured out how to force a fullscreen game by using the launch option
-fullscreen:

Go to your Steam Library
Right-click on the game title
Select Properties
Click Set Launch Options
Add -fullscreen to the text box