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Author Topic: DONE: make fullscreen games windowed  (Read 13283 times)

nite_monkey

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DONE: make fullscreen games windowed
« on: August 02, 2006, 01:42 AM »
Ok so I was playing a game the other day, and I needed to go back to my internet browser alot, but the game wont let me minimize it, and it doesn't have the ability to make it windowed in the options, or with the -window command. I was wondering if any one knew of a program that would either let me make fullscreen games/programs run windowed, or have a window that I could like run the game inside that would make the game become windowed... let me give an example
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DONE: make fullscreen games windowed

(click on that image to make it bigger) As you can see in the picture, calc.exe is inside the notepad, pretend notepad is the program I'm talking about, and calc is a fullscreen game, well you run notepad(the windowed maker) and when you open you hit a button and a box opens, and you goto the .exe of the fullscreen game, and double click on it. The game now loads inside of the notepad(windowed maker program). I hope I am not confusing anyone.
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« Last Edit: August 02, 2006, 07:21 AM by brotherS »

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Re: Idea:make fullscreen games windowed
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2006, 05:06 AM »
when in full screen (or anywhere in windows), you can press alt+tab to switch to the program you like.
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Re: DONE: make fullscreen games windowed
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2006, 01:08 PM »
Unfortunately, some games block alt+tab, and other games just crash when you tab back to them.

Adding windowed support to existing games might not be the easiest thing on the world. First you'd have to cope with OpenGL vs. DirectX (probably not DirectDraw vs. Direct3D though). Then, at least for DX, there's the problem that some features only work in fullscreen mode - so if the game does error checking on API calls, it might abort.
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Re: DONE: make fullscreen games windowed
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2006, 12:37 AM »
@Kimmchii, notice I said it wouldn't let me minimize
@f0dder If I make certain games windowed and they do error checking they would abort? So I wouldn't be able to fix my problem? that stinks, well thanks anyways
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Re: DONE: make fullscreen games windowed
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2006, 02:00 AM »
Run in wmware

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Re: DONE: make fullscreen games windowed
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2006, 05:41 AM »
why not try 3D Analyser? it allows you to change various graphic-related settings, including forced windowed mode

http://www.tommti-sy...n-Dateien/files.html

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Re: DONE: make fullscreen games windowed
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2006, 07:15 AM »
why not try 3D Analyser? it allows you to change various graphic-related settings, including forced windowed mode

http://www.tommti-sy...n-Dateien/files.html
Interesting - I wonder how many things it works with / breaks on :)
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Re: DONE: make fullscreen games windowed
« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2006, 09:53 AM »
allowed me to play few 2005 games when i was still on geforce 2 :)

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Re: DONE: make fullscreen games windowed
« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2006, 08:06 PM »
oh excuse me, I fogot to mention, 3d analizer doesnt work for me either, and with vmware, I am still fixing that up, so I cant use it.
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