I don't care about the desktop icons so much. Would that keep programs from getting shrunk?
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the programs are not shrunk. it is your desktop resolution that is "shrunk" to match the game window. when leaving the game window, windows will have a hard time adjusting to the original settings and will most likely have shrunken any other OPEN window...
changing your desktop resolution, prior to gaming,, will prevent this from happening
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That's very useful to know. Thank you :)
I set resolution to 800x600 to run Yumi Nikki but the game's resolution is even lower then that I'm pretty sure. When I changed resolution back to 1920x1080 it looked like everything open had been resized to 800x600.
I did that backwards, didn't I? For some reason I thought changing to the game's resolution (or as close as possible) before running it was how to avoid open-program resizing. But it's the opposite isn't it? Changing to the highest resolution below native would cause the least reduction in program sizing, right?
Well, since Borderless Gaming failed to eliminate open-program resizing for the game I'm trying to play right now, it seems like automating would be the next best solution: Change resolution -> run game -> change res back.
But to my surprise you can't actually change screen resolution in a batch file. That's such a basic thing I truly am surprised to find there's just no function to do it in a batch.
I did find http://12noon.com/?page_id=80 which I guess I'm gonna have to play around with when I get more free time.
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Doesn't seem to remove the downsizing problem for anything that's open, unfortunately :(
RPG Maker engines (at least older ones) are kind of screwy afaik so I'm hoping that other games work better with Borderless Gaming. I still need to figure a workaround for Yume Nikki though.
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Desktop resolution changes, you cannot avoid that when the game is full screen. You can try to get programs that emulate Linux desktop management (several desktops)—Win10 is supposed to have something like that, but I never looked into it. With them, you can just start up the game on the second desktop, so the other windows are not affected in the meantime.
If you are worried about desktop icons going everywhere, just right-click on the desktop and untick automatic rearrangement. As for program window sizes, sometimes minimising everything before starting up the game helps, as Windows usually doesn't resize minimised windows unless they get the focus back.
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Thanks for all that :)
Win 10 does have virtual desktop built in. Unfortunately running a low res game on a separate desktop still results in everything getting squashed on the original desktop too (I tested this before even asking here). Which is something I don't really understand why it would happen (would have thought they would be independent of each other) but for some reason it that's how it works.
Do you know if third party virtual desktops might be more likely to work independently from the main desktop? I've never tried one of those.
Win 10 doesn't seem to have an automatic arrangement option for desktop icon at all that I can find. I wonder which Windows it was where MS got rid of that. Such a stupid setting to remove, unless I'm just blind.
Unfortunately minimizing doesn't have much of an effect. Some games, if something is minimized to the taskbar it doesn't get crunched. Everything else seems to crunched and sometimes even stuff minimized to the taskbar gets crunched too.
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I just opened Yume Nikki for the first time since having Windows 10 and when I closed it this had happened to all my open Windows explorers and programs:
http://i.imgur.com/OVEaxuO.png
Desktop icons got messed up as well as you might guess.
This kind of thing has been driving me crazy of late.
I like Yume Nikki and a lot of older games that only have small maximum resolutions. Playing them windowed is way too unimmersive because they're so tiny that way. And I don't want to be manually resizing everything that was open every time I run one of these games.
Is there any way to avoid this problem while still running low res games in fullscreen? I don't have multiple monitors so just putting the low res game on another screen isn't a possibility.
I really hope someone can help because this has been driving me up the wall.
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