is there a way of exclusive fullscreen on Vulkan mode?

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[Schorsch Wadschinken]

Valheim, like many modern games, doesn't support either Exclusive Fullscreen nor Borderless Window modes. It instead uses the much superior DXGI Flip Model, regardless of whether you use Vulkan or not.

Effectively, your game runs like an Exclusive Fullscreen application as long as nothing is overlayed on top of it or as long as it doesn't lose focus. So long as either of those two things are in effect, it behaves like a Borderless Window game. This switch is almost seamless.

Microsoft added this feature to the DWM starting with Windows 8 and 10. The DWM normally renders your desktop and other windows, but when it recognizes that a game takes up an entire screen it gives the game complete control over the rendering chain just like it would have with Exclusive Fullscreen. The idea is to allow overlays without the need to inject them in the game's render queue and without the need to run in borderless window for the entire session, as well as improve other functionality like faster Tab switching.

[axway]

Good answer thanks.

[Mharr]

Another performance advantage of Vulkan is that it's happy to render at a lower resolution than the actual pixel dimensions of the fullscreen window.

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

Originally posted by Mharr:

Another performance advantage of Vulkan is that it's happy to render at a lower resolution than the actual pixel dimensions of the fullscreen window.

Compared to what? I don't know any API that DOESN'T do this.

[Mharr]

I absolutely could not get the DirectX build to work that way. Any time I resized the window it reset the 3d rendering to match, lower resolutions were only available in dedicated full screen.

[Macdallan]

I've been told that hitting alt-enter twice will switch to dedicated or true full screen mode and can give FPS boosts, seemed to increase FPS when I did it. *shrug* Try it, I guess.

[Schinken]

You can go into real Fullscreen in 2 ways: ALT-Enter for 2 Times ore aß a steam Start Option for valheim
"-window-mode exclusive"

For me Andy my gf it doesnt seemed to making a different. Nö better or lower FPS, no noticable change at all except: cant fast tabbing out.