How to play Dead Island in windowed mode.

Hello everyone, today i'm here to guide you on how to play Dead Island in "Windowed Mode"
Simply follow the steps below & you should be on your way.

If you are looking to play in borderless mode, just press ALT+ENTER in game.

This guide was made for users who wants to play in windowed mode.

First, locate your preferred Dead Island file in the documents of your PC.

Choose the directory of your preferred Dead Island version.
Dead Island: Original Edition - C:\Users\user\Documents\DeadIsland
Dead Island: Definitive Edition - C:\Users\user\Documents\DeadIslandDE

Once you found the directory to the documents, folders you're looking for should look like this.

Open the preferred Dead Island folder.

Both will contain the same "Settings" folder that you'll be getting into.

Boot up notepad & direct yourself to the settings folder you just opened.

Click on "File" in Notepad & select "Open"

Then change the drop-down settings to "All Files (*.*)"

Open "video.scr" in Notepad.

After that, open up "video.scr" through the notepad & you will be shown a lot of settings that you can mess around with, now the reason why you're here is because you want to run the game in windowed mode.. but you're confused as to why there isn't a "Windowed" command in the notepad.

That's because they never originally added "Windowed" mode to the final code of the game so it never got saved into the set of settings that you can change.


What you want to do now is simply add in the command "!Windowed (i)" into the notepad.
You can add it anywhere you want, like shown below.


Now all you have to do is save & exit.
Once you done all of that, you should be able to switch between "Fullscreen" & "Windowed"

Instead of "Fullscreen" & "Borderless Fullscreen"

Note:

If you open the video settings in the "Notepad" once more & you see that the commands for "Windowed Mode" is missing, don't panic!

I've stated this before that the final code of the game never had "Windowed Mode" as an option, but the client can run the command so long as you manually enabled it yourself by adding the command into the settings file, once you done that you don't have to ever do it again.

Every time you start up the game from now on, it should normally run in windowed mode.
Unless you changed it to Fullscreen.

Now you might be asking why does it work like that, it's because what you're doing is simply changing the screen settings of the client!

You have now successfully enabled "Windowed Mode" in Dead Island!

Congratulations!

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[Kitosback]

+rep thank you so much!

[AUTTENBURGH]

No, this is only to make it so you can play the game in windowed mode, the game already has a borderless mode implemented originally, but yeah not borderless windowed mode.

If you want a more advanced alternative just go ahead and install borderless gaming via Github.

I am sure that will have all the things you need.

[Lindo [EN][ES]]

Does this allow me to play Borderless Windowed? If you go to the game, the only thing you can do is a shifted-to-the-side windowed that's horrible. I would love to be able to play windowed borderless, that's what I'm looking for.

[AUTTENBURGH]

Glad to help!

[Remixlive]

You are so goated for that Github link (BTW the download is safe if anyone was wondering)

[AUTTENBURGH]

Try pressing alt+enter to see if it enables borderless naturally.
Do note that this only will work if you didn't already completed the process in the guide.

If not go ahead and install Borderless Gaming via Github!
https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/releases/tag/9.5.6

This guide was made because the game enters borderless mode originally.
So if you wanted it to be in borderless, game already does it for you, just press alt+enter.

[seal ◢◤]

Hey thanks for this guide!

I just installed the DI DE today and I cant find the Borderless windowed/ Borderless fullscreen option anywhere? There are only two options there, Fullscreen and Windowed. Please help me if you know something abt it c:

[Mewsli's Mistress]

I found that you can turn off the full screen now, but it makes a smaller window. To fix this, I recommend turning the fullscreen mode to "Off" and changing the resolution to suit your screen resolution..

[pansy]

thanks you ! <3