Will we get full screen back?

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When bfa came along we lost full screen support and had to live with the windowed version. With Shadowlands will we recieve true full screen support back in the game?.

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what do you mean by true fullscreen support?

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Instead of having full screen windowed, up to bfa we had a setting within the options to have the game running in full screen. When bfa came along this option was removed and we were stuck with the full screen windowed option.

I’m pretty sure the reason it was removed was because of Direct x 12. I’m hoping it returns as this setting usually improves fps.

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I can’t think of any other settings we’ve ever gotten back after their removal :thinking:

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Guess I’m being wishful.

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I thought it had to do with Windows 10 blocking proper full screen support? Am I wrong?

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I’m pretty sure it’s somthing to do with direct x 12 and it’s api

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You can play Monster Hunter: World just fine on Windows 10 in fullscreen. It does result in better framerates for sure - just causes some connection issues if you ALT+TAB, but that’s more of a game issue I think. (I probably misunderstood your question, sorry if I did :stuck_out_tongue:)

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Nope , You answered it correctly. I honestly thought Windows 10 did something with games in Full screen. I think I read about it somewhere but I’m probably wrong.

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I’m not sure what the OP means. I’ve never lost full screen, not at the end of Legion, not any time in BfA. I have true (not windowed) full screen in WoW right now.

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You have "Full screen windowed (borderless) " as do we all.

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Actually you only think you do.

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Got 2 screens on your pc? Make sure game mode isn’t turned on. Move your mouse over to your 2nd screen, You will see that it works. If it was real full screen mode you would have to tab out first.

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“Fullscreen” in Windows 10 is indeed a thing of the past and even in Windows 7 it didn’t really exist anymore (at least not in the way the term was originally meant), although some applications/games actually list the “borderless window” mode as “fullscreen” in their settings. It is of course still possible to mimic the original tell-tale signs of fullscreen mode by e.g. artificially constraining the mouse cursor into the active program window but the actual functionality no longer exists within the operating system.

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Until you install DirectDraw.

WoW should switch to using DirectDraw imo.

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It only made your fps worse as it wasn’t actually fullscreen, trust me. That’s why they removed it.

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Trust me it didn’t. I’ve lost about 10fps with the changes and so did many others. Maybe Shadowlands will bring them back somehow :joy:.

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In wow before this windowed mode you always DC if you alt tabbed for like 20sec…like on flight path or in ah

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I hoped to read good news but disappointed.

I don’t know why they took away our fullscreen option. Technologic advancement must mean providing more options to choose from instead of limiting them like this. I used to like original fullscreen, performance wise was better too whatever so called experts say I used to have 150 FPS lost half of it because of this half baked fullscreen.

You are not responsible of this though not trying to flame you :smile_cat:.