Windowed Borderless not working

[Recreational Colonoscopy]

I prefer to play in fullscreen, but alt-tabbing really sucks for that in this game. I swapped to windowed borderless, but whenever I relaunch the game the screen is off center and i can see the taskbar.

[EmptyK]

I've had luck changing the settings manually.

Go to %appdata%\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\LEGO Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga\ and edit your PCCONFIG.TXT file so that Windowed, BorderlessWindow, and Fullscreen Window are all 1. You may also want to adjust your ScreenRefreshRate to whatever your preference is.

Once you're done, set the file to read-only. Right-click the file, click 'Properties' and check the box marked 'Read-only'. I hope that helps.

[fef]

That's a small bug. I use the following workaround: when starting the game go to video options and enable fullscreen. When it asks if you are satisfied with the new mode say no. It will switch back to borderless, but this time it is the working/normal borderless.

[I-Cyb3r-I]

EmptyK I can't find that in my C: drive

[Gonk]

Another method I use is to use the Task Manager to restart the program "Windows Explorer". It will reload the task bar and close any windows explorer windows you have open, but it will prevent the taskbar from blocking the bottom of the game for the rest of the play session. Works for a lot of other games too, but it really depends on the game.

[Kismette]

Originally posted by EmptyK:

I've had luck changing the settings manually.

Go to C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Roaming\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\LEGO Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga\ and edit your PCCONFIG.TXT file so that Windowed, BorderlessWindow, and Fullscreen Window are all 1. You may also want to adjust your ScreenRefreshRate to whatever your preference is.

Once you're done, set the file to read-only. Right-click the file, click 'Properties' and check the box marked 'Read-only'. I hope that helps.

You know that's pretty much fullscreen mode with the refresh rate locked. For borderless to 'work' in-game, windowed should be activated as well along with borderless (1) and fullscreen deactivated (0).

NVM, just noticed you had all 3 'activated' and that actually worked. The game remembers it's set at windowed borderless without the taskbar showing up when starting the game.

[SKN The LISPer]

Originally posted by EmptyK:

I've had luck changing the settings manually.

Go to C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Roaming\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\LEGO Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga\ and edit your PCCONFIG.TXT file so that Windowed, BorderlessWindow, and Fullscreen Window are all 1. You may also want to adjust your ScreenRefreshRate to whatever your preference is.

Once you're done, set the file to read-only. Right-click the file, click 'Properties' and check the box marked 'Read-only'. I hope that helps.

Friendly reminder that appdata folder is an enviornmental variable, so you could just do:
%appdata%\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\LEGO Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga\

Windows also respects previous folder relative pathing, so to access local and locallow, the way to type it would be:

%appdata%\..\local\[folders]
%appdata%\..\locallow\[folders]

Not only easier for you to type, but also for people reading \ wanting to make the same changes.

[EmptyK]

Originally posted by SKN The LISPer:

Originally posted by EmptyK:

I've had luck changing the settings manually.

Go to C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Roaming\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\LEGO Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga\ and edit your PCCONFIG.TXT file so that Windowed, BorderlessWindow, and Fullscreen Window are all 1. You may also want to adjust your ScreenRefreshRate to whatever your preference is.

Once you're done, set the file to read-only. Right-click the file, click 'Properties' and check the box marked 'Read-only'. I hope that helps.

Friendly reminder that appdata folder is an enviornmental variable, so you could just do:
%appdata%\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\LEGO Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga\

Windows also respects previous folder relative pathing, so to access local and locallow, the way to type it would be:

%appdata%\..\local\[folders]
%appdata%\..\locallow\[folders]

Not only easier for you to type, but also for people reading \ wanting to make the same changes.

Thank you! I edited my comment to reflect your tip. I knew about doing %appdata% but not the other stuff. It's incredibly useful, even beyond a LEGO game.

[SKN The LISPer]

Originally posted by EmptyK:

Originally posted by SKN The LISPer:

Friendly reminder that appdata folder is an enviornmental variable, so you could just do:
%appdata%\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\LEGO Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga\

Windows also respects previous folder relative pathing, so to access local and locallow, the way to type it would be:

%appdata%\..\local\[folders]
%appdata%\..\locallow\[folders]

Not only easier for you to type, but also for people reading \ wanting to make the same changes.

Thank you! I edited my comment to reflect your tip. I knew about doing %appdata% but not the other stuff. It's incredibly useful, even beyond a LEGO game.

Yeah, it's not super well known outside of programmers, most tech articles for example, uses direct paths rather than these relative paths namely for that reason.

You can also do %localappdata% for local, but I just find the relative path easier to remember and type.