Borderless Windowed Mode

Comments: 62

• 15 Sep, '21
  bcmpinc Merged

  Bug:
  The game minimizes when it is full screen and the player switches to a different program.
  
  This is particularly annoying when looking up info for the game reporting a bug in the game; or when streaming the game (e.g. it is impossible to set up capturing the game in OBS while playing in full screen mode, as you cannot select minimized windows).
  
  Most games implement this by using a screen sized "windowed borderless" mode instead of "full screen". Downside of this mode is there's a tiny performance hit and you cannot change resolution (unless the game provides its own resolution scaling implementation).
  
  How to reproduce:
  - Have a dual monitor set-up.
  - Have the game open on one screen in full screen mode.
  - Have a web browser open on the other screen.
  - While playing the game, click on the web browser (which causes the game to lose focus).
  
  What happens:
  the game minimizes
  
  What should happen:
  the game stays full screen

• 16 Sep, '21
  :) Merged

  I use two monitors, one to play Timberborn, the second to do other activities. When playing Timberborn in Fullscreen, the game will minimize whenever it is not in the foreground. I'd like to suggest that the game remains in foreground at all times, so that you can continue playing the game while simultaneously use my second monitor to for example browse the internet. You can argue I can use the windowed version (aka untick Fullscreen), but this partially blocks the icons at the bottom of the window so it is not a solution for me.

• 17 Sep, '21
  Zeliox Merged

  When I'm in windowed mode, every resolution successfully changes the window size except for 2560x1440. I'm trying to use a program that will allow me to play borderless windowed, but I can't use it properly since I am unable to get a window that matches my monitor's resolution.
  
  I've tried changing the resolution both in and out of a save and have tried restarting and reinstalling and this issue persists. I've also made sure it's not the program I'm trying to use. The following is a recording to showcase the issue. https://imgur.com/a/U8D4N5P

• 17 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "2560x1440 Windowed Resolution Not Working" (suggested by Zeliox on 2021-09-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 17 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "Fullscreen Windowed mode" (suggested by Anton Kovalenko on 2021-09-15), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 17 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "Don't minimize the game when it is fullscreen and losing focus" (suggested by bcmpinc on 2021-09-15), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 17 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "Game does not stay in foreground when in Fullscreen mode." (suggested by :) on 2021-09-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 17 Sep, '21
  Yonish Admin

  "borderless window / obs chat support" (suggested by mai on 2021-09-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 17 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "Can I add borderless window function?" (suggested by Risaku on 2021-09-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 17 Sep, '21
  Plankton Merged

  Edge scrolling does not work on the edge where I have another monitor. The cursor just leaves the screen where I have the game open and moves to the other screen instead of scrolling the game view.

• 18 Sep, '21
  DeBiskop

  This feature is a must, so many gamers use multiple screens and multitask while gaming.
  I literally just got this game and I'm quite honestly shocked it isn't a feature in this day and age.

• 19 Sep, '21
  Rhonan Merged

  I have a laptop that is hooked up to two external monitors. One of those monitors, an ultrawide has been set as the primary desktop. Timberborn always opens up on the laptop screen. The only way I can fix it, is to close the laptop then wake it up with a keyboard. Reducing my monitors to two.
  
  Timberdorn should be respecting the primary desktop setting. Ideally it should allow you to pick which monitor it runs on but barring that it should be respecting that primary desktop setting.
  
  [Update]
  After a little more testing I was able to get it to work by turning off fullscreen, dragging it to the correct monitor and then turning fullscreen back on. I tried to relaunch the game and for now it appears to be staying on the correct window now.
  
  OS: Windows
  Store: Steam
  Version: v20210918-14def9e-sw

• 19 Sep, '21
  HydroChrome Merged

  When in edge scroll mode, if there is another screen on that side the mouse leaves the game instead of edge scrolling.

• 19 Sep, '21
  DerbinKlamz Merged

  Sometimes when I tab away and go back to the game its frozen, but it doesn't pop up with the "not responding" thing that windows does, it just sits there and I am unable to do anything. hitting Alt+F4 doesn't close the window, only using the task manager to end the task. And the game doesn't freeze every time I tab away, cant tell if it has to do with how long I was tabbed away or what.

• 19 Sep, '21
  Quinten Merged

  I first started the game on my laptop without external monitors, and I enabled edge scrolling. Worked fine.
  When I later restarted the game, I had my second monitor attached. The game started on my laptop screen (which is not my main monitor), but when I disable full screen, move the window to my other monitor, and enable full screen, the game is playing on my other monitor. A bit weird, but works fine.
  When I tried using edge scrolling, it works fine going up, down, and left. However, when I move my mouse to the right, my mouse just moves to the other monitor, and no scrolling happens. Trying to place my mouse carefully also does not make any scrolling happen.

• 19 Sep, '21
  Tammy Merged

  In the windows mode, I have it set to 2560x1440. My monitor is 5120x1440. In the window mode, the bottom icons are all cut off. It would be nice if you could either customize your screen size or make it so it fits the screen.

• 20 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "game minimizes while watching Netflix on a second screen" (suggested by ellie on 2021-09-20), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "Borderless windowed mode" (suggested by Txbongo on 2021-09-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Sep, '21
  sigmarpriest

  I have similar problem, 3 monitors with different resolutiuons. Very often on game launch or save reload game opens in random resolution (my main monitor has 1440p and once it opened in 1080x1200, yes it was higher then wide) or move windows (like discord or browser) on other screens to random positions. It recures after 3-6 alt+tab, also same problem occurs if i alt+tab to different app or click on other monitor.

• 20 Sep, '21
  Yonish Admin Merged

  Borderless Windowed Mode is coming soon, once Unity fixes some issues on their side.

• 20 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "Edge scrolling works only parly when using multiple monitors." (suggested by Quinten on 2021-09-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "Game becomes completely unresponsive after tabbing out for a while when editing/creating a map" (suggested by DerbinKlamz on 2021-09-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "Fix Edge Scroll when using multiple screens" (suggested by HydroChrome on 2021-09-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "Windows mode" (suggested by Tammy on 2021-09-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  ""Edge Scrolling" does not work properly with multiple monitors" (suggested by Plankton on 2021-09-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "[Bug] Respect Primary Monitor" (suggested by Rhonan on 2021-09-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Sep, '21
  Sakata

  To anyone that wants a fix now instead of later, Borderless Gaming seems to work for this. Just put at fullscreen resolution, unselect fullscreen option and add to borderless gaming. Works a charm so far.

• 20 Sep, '21
  dude

  "Borderless Windowed Mode is coming soon, once Unity fixes some issues on their side."
  Aah, so we will never get this feature.

• 21 Sep, '21
  Adaydremer Merged

  When making a custom map and the water simulation is running, the game becomes unresponsive for roughly 10-15 seconds when the game loses and regains focus.

• 21 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "[Bug] Unresponsive Custom Map UI After Game Loses Focus" (suggested by Adaydremer on 2021-09-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 21 Sep, '21
  rwmtinkywinky

  This is quite useful to me since I have three monitors and often run OBS preview on the one of the other monitors (along with stream overviews and chat). Being able to quickly interact is quite useful!

• 22 Sep, '21
  Grubs

  It would also be great if the normal windowed mode was resizable, which would make it easy to drag it to another screen and maximise it there, without fiddling with the resolution settings.

• 22 Sep, '21
  Luminax

  Adding my 2-bits here is that I used to be able to Shift+Windows+S (Windows new snipping tool) without Timberborn going into minimize mode and forces me to alt-tab. Now it always forces me to go out of TImberborn, and Timberborn minimizes (I have 2560x1440 fullscreen, with background activated).
  Also might be related, or not, is that this issue happens after or around the time I switched language to Japanese and English back and forth.

• 22 Sep, '21
  Dojando

  good to see that this is worked on! :D

• 23 Sep, '21
  Ananatzu Merged

  When i change the resolution from 3840x2160 to 2560x1600 in an active game it works, but if i want to change it back it stays 2560x1600. I need to restart the game to change it. And I dont know if i schould open an extra report for this, but the game is slighty cut off at the bottom when i play it at 3840x2160. Like half an icon is missing, little bit annoying but not a problem.
  
  Otherwise a very fun game, I am already eager to see the futur updates

• 23 Sep, '21
  Philip017

  This looks to be a very popular request, I hope it is implemented. I use windowed border-less for all my games. you could also do a custom resolution scale where it can run in windowed mode and be maximized or shrunk down into a smaller window that is not a fixed size.
  
  If you need an idea of what this looks like, have a look at Factorio. Factorio is a very easy game to sink a ton of time into.

• 23 Sep, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "Changin Resolutions only once possible" (suggested by Ananatzu on 2021-09-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 26 Sep, '21
  Mebourne

  When using Steam adding "-popupWindow" to the launcher settings as well as setting to non-fullscreen with in-game settings, allows full resolution borderless window mode that does not minimize when clicking on another monitor. Temporary workaround until dev's add the option formally.

• 27 Sep, '21
  Menuvil

  I'm also noticing that the bottom of the UI is cutting off in windowed compared to full screen mode. My guess is that the window isn't taking the title bar into account when sizing the window. so the bottom part of the UI falls off the screen size if your screen resolution is the same as your window size.

• 27 Sep, '21
  Zack

  In the meantime, the app "borderless gaming" works quite well. But having this implemented in the base game would be best.

• 01 Oct, '21
  Chris Merged

  It's 2021 and multi monitor setups are common.

• 01 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Borderless windowed mode" (suggested by Chris on 2021-10-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 04 Oct, '21
  Devin Booth

  Another vote for borderless windowed mode, currently I can't stream my gameplay as I'm a triple screen user and using windowed mode leaves me with the bottom of the screen missing ... I've worked around it for in between main content by using a smaller window but I'd love to be able to give it a full playthrough :) Love the game, keep up the great work.
  
  PS. Don't forget that borderless windowed DOES NOT mean that you can't position the window. Being able to center it on an ultra wide screen or with a triple set up is imperative!
  
  Thanks for getting on this one!

• 06 Oct, '21
  zORg_alex

  I'd add resizable mode for windowed, you can't resize borderless window usually (sadly nobody thinks about such small but really awesome feature, I'd like to be able to move game window if due to some bug it will be moved somewhere). I'd make a really small window chrome that would be barely visible on game background and resizable window. This way you could easily move the game to another screen, or fit it if you have weird resolution and have all space for streaming stuff or just be able to see your clock on the desktop.

• 10 Oct, '21
  Chris Merged

  Edge scrolling doesn't work when there is another monitor on that edge of the screen.

• 11 Oct, '21
  Jordan Pool Merged

  If I alt+tab out when using the map editor and alt+tabbing back in, afterwards no input is possible. Other windows can't be opened and the app shows as "not responding" Running on windows 10. I do not experience this bug when playing the base game, only in the editor.

• 12 Oct, '21
  Bobster Merged

  so when i switch to any other app the game will go black with some funky fractals in the upper right corner and will not go back. when i switch again the game screen is and will stay fully black. have to quit it then and hopefully i have saved... otherwise thank you a lot for this great game. i really like it. great fun

• 14 Oct, '21
  shinsuky Merged

  had the same bug tonight, very stressfull after many hours without saving my world, hopefully i alt F4 and it saved it !! (ps: it was after building and clicking on the temple, idk if there is any link with the bug)

• 18 Oct, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "1920x1080 Doesn't work in Window Mode" (suggested by Dalorian on 2021-10-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 18 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "mouse map navigation does not work need to disconnect my second screen" (suggested by W J Fairhurst on 2021-10-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 18 Oct, '21
  A.Black Merged

  The game doesnt recognize the borders of the screen its on. because of this my cursor moves off game and I click on stuff in the next screen.

• 19 Oct, '21
  Chops_II

  It is possible to get something similar to fullscreen windows mode by using Process Hacker, finding the process, going to the contextual menu, choosing "window", and then "maximise".
  It doesn't seem to allow edge scrolling and it leaves the titlebar visible, but it does seem to properly adopt the correct maximised resolution.

• 19 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Doublescreen bug" (suggested by A.Black on 2021-10-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Oct, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "Edge scrolling doesn't work with multiple monitors" (suggested by Chris on 2021-10-10), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Oct, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "Map editor crashes when alt tabbing out" (suggested by Jordan Pool on 2021-10-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Oct, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "Black screen when switching to other app" (suggested by Bobster on 2021-10-12), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Oct, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "[Bug Report] It just stopped letting me click" (suggested by BrycedTea on 2021-10-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Oct, '21
  pmduda Admin

  "WASD controls deactivated after opening XBox Game bar on Windows" (suggested by Jonas Hünecke on 2021-10-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 31 Oct, '21
  Tia

  Yes yes and yes.
  This is something that is defenatly missing ingame.
  So I'm happy also to see you guys are on it.

• 11 Nov, '21
  martuth

  yes problem with right border in full mode windows, the mouse changed of display screen (1 have 2 screen) and stop scrooling game....

• 12 Dec, '21
  Everythingpro9

  This Would be so good cause i got 2 computers 1 with 5 monitors and the other with 3 so yeah ADD THIS NOW

• 13 Dec, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  Everythingpro9 it's actually already added in the experimental branch