Window sizes can get funny when gaming, so I use the handy app Borderless Gaming.
This handy application by AndrewMF5 enforces your PC border laws to the extreme!
But why should you download it, and what does it exactly do to make gaming better?
Borderless Gaming
Firstly, this software is free on Steam and is only paid for if you really care about a dark mode option!
Secondly, ask any PC gamer, and they will tell you borderless settings are a pain to deal with. Borderless Gaming is an application that lets you force other applications into a borderless mode.
Because applications run on a window frame basis. Actually, that is why it’s literally called Windows on your PC! By opening up an application, you open a virtual window. However, how that window scales based on resolution and size is where it gets tricky.
See, when games came out, they were preset to standard 4:3 fullscreen. This is where an application would take precedence over others and scale to fit your monitors. However, in fullscreen the PC is just focused on that, and after we discovered multiple monitors, it became an issue.
Because this sudden change of focus to the PC causes it to freeze and stutter or sometimes even crash!
Although we have the option to set the game into a tiny windowed mode that reduces this issue, it restricts our usage of the screen and application heavily. Also, it hit performance badly running in windowed compared to fullscreen.
However, Borderless Fullscreen introduced Borderless Gaming, and it trumps everything. Because you get the same performance as fullscreen, it covers the same screen size, all while allowing you to multitaskwithout any hiccups.
Although it is the best option, most games do not come with halfway decent borderless options. Also, a lot of older titles just do not have the option and force fullscreen all the time.
Gaming Without Borders
But using the application Borderless Gaming, we can force a tonne of both modern and old games to be borderless.
To do so, we start off by running the software not through Steam, so pin the .exe directly on your taskbar. Trust me, this seems strange, but it works for me big time and helps when needing to find it.
Also before we open it, we want to find the game of our choice and slap that game into windowed mode. Try and get that windowed mode as close to the resolutions you want.
Now from here we open Borderless Gaming and click the 3 dots on the games icon in there. From the popup, you can choose either to make it borderless or to make a profile.
Although the quick make borderless now option works sometimes, it’s best to select profile. From here we get a turn of more options saved onto its own profile.
Also from the next panel we can set the monitor, background and deadzone size. However, for older games, tick the ‘preserve client area size’. This reduces the chances of older games crashing once forcing the borderless.
Although it works for a tonne of games, it does not work for every game, especially some peculiar older titles. But it does help quite a few and is worth a try for the price of free.
And for those wanting fullscreen but not forcing maximum resolution, it helps out also. Just set the window size to 1080 or 2k and make it borderless via the software from there.
