I just bought the game and noticed that I can’t choose full screen.
I saw that 8 months ago there were a lot of topics about this, but now there are none
maybe there is a solution on how to enable full screen?
It’s a DX12 based game, there is no fullscreen exclusive mode. Yes, you can technically make calls for it within the API, but it’s pointless, vestigial and offers no performance gains. If you use things like disable fullscreen optimizations, you’re essentially dumbing down DX down. If anything, it leads to performance issues and potential crashing issues while doing things like alt tabbing(if your desktop uses a different resolution or refresh rate).
There are instances where it’s preferrable to have an EFS mode. This primarily applies to disabled players that need either controllers or assistive devices where anything stealing focus from the game (such as I’ve seen Windows Defender do) can break input control and require restarting the client to get the control back. Lots of games are like this sadly. Thankfully D4’s controller code polls for input on all devices so controllers aren’t broken on focus loss here, but elsewhere, it’s a crapshoot.
If something can steal active focus from the game at all, it will do it to both FSE and BFS. At any rate, FSE isn’t the standard anymore, isn’t going to be the standard anymore and if any unsupported 3rd party apps are stealing focus from the user, then you’ll need to talk to them about it.
No, it won’t. EFS protects against focus stealing. That’s why it’s called exclusive fullscreen. BFS mode has no protection against focus stealing precisely because it doesn’t have exclusive control. BFS would be fine if it had a means of focus locking the app. It’s the reason the lone macOS dev put in a special focus lock function in WoW - BFS mode allowed the Dock to steal focus, which it does very frequently. The DX12 modes themselves aren’t the problem, the lack of a focus lock is. Believe me, as a disabled player I know far more about this than most do.
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