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Borderless Gaming and forced Vsync/Triple Buffering How can you call Windows 10 the ultimate gaming OS when you have nonsense like this implemented into it? People say it's the DWM, and since we can't disable it like we could in Windows 7 (aero) we are stuck with a terrible borderless experience because of input lag. 1) Right-click the Windowed Borderless Gaming icon in your system tray, then click Game Settings. From the 'Game' dropdown menu, make sure The Sims 3 is selected. Under Size & Offset, type in the resolution 2560x1440. 2) Right-click the taskbar, then click Taskbar settings, and turn on 'Automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode.'

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For a list of games, see games with borderless fullscreen windowed support.

Borderless fullscreen windowed refers to a mode where the game presents the rendered image in a maximized window without borders making it cover the whole monitor. This is opposed to a regular window that uses window decorations around the contents of the window, or fullscreen exclusive mode where the game takes control over the output device and where each application switch required a display mode switch to occur.

This feature is known by a lot of different names between games, such as borderless mode, maximized window, fullscreen window, or any combination thereof. Some titles might also refer to it using less common names, such as scaling or even fullscreen if the game does not support exclusive fullscreen mode.

Key points

Borderless fullscreen windowed offers similar benefits as normal windowed mode, but with a fullscreen-like appearance.

Native feature in many modern titles, and can often be forced in the majority of older titles.

Can sometimes be used to enable wider or higher resolutions via resizing the game's viewport.^[1]^[2]

Seamless task switching with no risk of crashes or freezes with a minor loss in performance.

Eliminates screen tearing on Windows (only on Vista and later) due to Vertical sync (Vsync) being applied for all windows by the Desktop Window Manager (DWM)..^[3]

..but will subsequently cause additional input lag as well, due to the aforementioned vertical sync. It is possible to disable the vertical sync, however it requires either disabling DWM (only possible on Vista/7) or by using a certain presentation mode and flag.^[4]

1Windows
2AutoHotkey
3Linux
4Windows troubleshooting

Windows[edit]

Borderless Gaming[edit]

Instructions^{[citation needed]}

Download Borderless Gaming and install it.
Navigate to the Borderless Gaming installation path and run BorderlessGaming.exe
Run the game in a Windowed mode, then Alt+Tab ↹ to the Desktop and open Borderless Gaming again.
Select the game's executable from under the Applications field, then push the first Right Arrow button located at the top.

Notes

Restart the game if the borderless mode isn't working, keep Borderless Gaming open.

If the game crashed after Borderless Gaming was launched then restart the game, keep Borderless Gaming open.

Requires UAC elevation to run.

Special K[edit]

See Special K > Borderless fullscreen windowed for instructions.

GeDoSaTo[edit]

Works with games on the Unreal Engine 3. Allows Windowed modes to be forced on games which don't have them.

Limited to DirectX 9 and 32-Bit games.

Instructions^{[citation needed]}

Install and run GeDoSaTo.
Edit settings and find the following line in GeDoSaTo.ini.
Edit the value from 'false' to 'true' to force this mode.
Add the game's executable name to the user whitelist.
Run the game in its normal fullscreen mode as opposed to windowed.

Updater/installer may crash. From an administrator command prompt, run REG ADD 'HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv4.0.30319' /v SchUseStrongCrypto /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /reg:32^[5]

Simple Runtime Window Editor[edit]

Allows manipulating the size, position, and styles of a game's main/child windows.

Instructions^{[citation needed]}
Download SRWE and run it. Run the game in windowed mode, and switch back to SRWE. Select running application and open the game. Use the Remove borders and Fake fullscreen buttons. Save the profile to the same folder as SRWE.

Fullscreenizer[edit]

Doesn't have favorite games.

Instructions^{[citation needed]}
Download Fullscreenizer and run it. Run the game in windowed mode, and switch back to Fullscreenizer. Click on 'Show All', select a game and click on 'Add'. Use the Fullscreenize button.

Windowed Borderless Gaming[edit]

Has favorite games and can be minimized to tray.

Instructions^{[citation needed]}
Download Windowed Borderless Gaming and run. Run the game in windowed mode, and click to icon in tray. Use 'Add window (F3)' button, go to game and click F3. Restart the game.

Windows Border Stripper[edit]

Strips the Windows border in most games, and has options to move the window with axis options.

Instructions^{[citation needed]}
Download Windows Border Stripper and run. Run the game in windowed mode, and start Windows Border Stripper. Select the games name from the list, and click on the right arrows (>>) to strip the game of its borders. Input the number for X Axis, and Y Axis to wherever you want to move the stripped window.

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Just Try Specific Version NVIDIA Driver for optimus devices[edit]

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From 466.11 version of NVIDIA Driver for optimus devices(mostly are notebooks), there is a bug for OpenGL rendering that application cannot aquire exclusive fullscreen so that it will run in borderless mode

Install 466.11/470.05/470.14(these are tested, other versions also may work) driver, then run OpenGL games and set fullscreen, game will enter borderless mode.

Hyperdimension Neptunia run in borderless mode

Only optimus devices (devices have both integral and dedicated GPU, and use dedicated GPU to render and integral GPU to output) can use this bug
May be fixed after driver update

AutoHotkey[edit]

Games utilizing PunkBuster as an anti-cheat measure may mistakenly treat AutoHotkey