Borderless Windowed mode, where is it?

[Typhi]

Hello all!

I am playing this game a while now, (2,5 week or so) and I am astonished that there is no borderless windowed mode in this game. Now I checked if Unity currently supports this, and yeap they do.

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/108430-Borderless-window-fullscreen-windowed-mode (Confirmation that Unity supports it)

Now, if Muse only has to implement it with minimal effort, what is holding them back? I mean, this should be seriously standard and especially since this is becoming some kind of MMO. But also because sometimes you just have to wait a while before a match starts, and borderless windowed mode makes things just a lot easier... (People with multiple screens would seriously benefit from this)

So if it's easy, make it happen please ^^ And if it's not easy, I like to know why it's not easy (Out of curiosity )


Anyways, keep up the good work! The game is awesome!


Cheers,


Leon

[RaptorSystems]

Leon++

At the moment I'm using openbox to provide my boardless window mode, mainly because it tends to be a lot more stable than fullscreen (less crashes).

It really should be an option without hax.

[Typhi]

Just one reaction? Doesn't anyone miss this?

[N-Sunderland]

I never play in windowed, so it doesn't make a difference to me. I imagine it's the same for most regular players.

[Urz]

As another multimon user, I also run virtually every multiplayer game in windowed mode. Borderless windowed mode is a feature I would like to see.

[Helmic]

I never play in windowed, so it doesn't make a difference to me. I imagine it's the same for most regular players.

Borderless window mode typically refers to a window stretched so that the application fills the screen without showing the titlebar, making it look identical to fullscreen mode.  It is typically used to play the game in fullscreen while allowing you to instantly and safely alt-tab back and forth between the game and other applications like a web browser.  For some users, running the game in this "windowed" mode dramatically increases performance.  Alt-tab crashes are almost a nonissue.  Some games will run in borderless window mode by default without letting the player know they're not actually in true "fullscreen" such as Vindictus.

GoI tabs in and out rather quickly for me, but I don't think it's actually running in borderless window mode.  It'd be a very welcome feature for a lot of people, I imagine.

[N-Sunderland]

Oh yeah, I totally understand why it would be a big help, I was just suggesting a reason as to why there haven't been many responses.

[Veyka]

Passing  -popupwindow via the steam launch stuff (as per that link) seems to work perfectly, so there's that until (if) muse put a checkbox in

[Typhi]

Bump! It should be done through the menu's of Guns of Icarus

[RaptorSystems]

I've put "-popupwindow" as a launch option but see no difference, is this a MS windows thing?

[GrimWinter]

This is pretty much the first thing I check for with new games, I would love to see it added to GoI and I know a few of my friends would too

[Typhi]

I am often working with 3 screens and since this game is becoming an MMO, I would really want it in the game. It's better to have raised the problem now, then a lot further into development

[Typhi]

Bump this for sanity!

[Typhi]

Bump.

[Darcain]

More games need borderless window mode, it just is so damn useful when you have multiple screens, makes the game more stable too since you don't have to practically minimize it to do something else very shortly.