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    Anyone enjoy windows over full screen for gaming?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Mippoose, Feb 18, 2008.

  1. Mippoose

    Mippoose Notebook Deity

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    I have had this habit lately of playing all of my games on my laptop (1680x1050) in a window of about 1366x768 at full graphics and what not.

    I don't know why... But they play smoother and the res doesn't kill the pc.

    On top of that.. Stretching to a smaller 1440x900 or so makes the game blurry.

    Anyone else do this?
     
    Mippoose, Feb 18, 2008
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  2. Morningsup

    Morningsup Notebook Consultant

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    i do, but i do it because i want to chat on AIM and read forums =-) , but ya they do play smoother for me
     
    Morningsup, Feb 18, 2008
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    hmm i play 2Moons and WOW in window mode so i can do other things to while i play. I run my screen on 1280x800 and play in 1024x768 window mode
     
    Satyrion, Feb 18, 2008
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    I run Diablo 2 windowed because the sprites look a little sharper, other games I will run windowed for better frames sometime. 950 can't do a whole lot at 1440x900 ^_^
     
    fifafreak18, Feb 18, 2008
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  5. Darkfly

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    Can anybody tell me how to run games in a window plz?
     
    Darkfly, Feb 18, 2008
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    Some modern games offer that option in their option menus. I think you can try and look at the nVidia control panel to see if that option in general is possible.
     
    lozanogo, Feb 18, 2008
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    Usually, you can add a "-w" after the executable, but running intensive games in windowed mode will crash your system.
     
    Lithus, Feb 18, 2008
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    or right click, on the game shortcut, then properties and then theres a few options such as run windowed
     
    narsnail, Feb 18, 2008
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    thanks for the quick replies, I can't run intensive games anyway since I'm stuck with a rubbish graphics card at the moment.
     
    Darkfly, Feb 18, 2008
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  10. Mippoose

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    Only game so far that wont give me the option is Dark messiah :[

    but its nice for CSS and stuff so when your on the dead timer you arent bored.
     
    Mippoose, Feb 18, 2008
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    Ya man..its best for Games like CS/CZ/CSS.. the waiting time on maps like de_dust2 can Kill!
     
    Nocturnal310, Feb 18, 2008
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    only when i'm not able to play in high res like FEAR.
     
    NULL, Feb 18, 2008
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  13. drakoniac

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    I love windowed, didn't want to buy COD4 for a while because I thought there wasn't a way to run it ( in windowed ) but then I found a command that works.
     
    drakoniac, Feb 18, 2008
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