How do you set windowed mode?

[dipwood]

I want to stream the game with xsplit and full-screen it has this weird blinking thing on the stream. The graphics would blink, and I don't know why. Maybe the game has a different refresh rate from my monitor? Maybe the framerate of the stream is different from the game? Maybe none of the above? Either way, I think windowed mode would solve the problem.

If anyone has a reason for why it's blinking and how to fix it, then I don't need to use windowed mode.

 

[AndrewT]

Edit settings.txt to say fullScreen=no . Note it's not officially supported, it's meant for development and debugging, but maybe it'll help you.

 

[dipwood]

Where is settings.txt?

edit: nevermind found it. It doesn't let me scroll to the right while windowed. Oh well.

 

[Harabec]

Is there a way to get borderless windowed mode? I want to enjoy the benefits of windowed mode but without having to reduce my resolution.

A third party application which can do this I would also find as a suitable solution.

Edit: Found a little guide on how to do this over on the Steam forums.

CK2's engine allows you to create a custom resolution, which for example would be useful if you want to emulate a borderless window mode (not directly supported) or double the text size without making everything look too blurry. This can be simply done by opening the settings.txt file (see above for where to find it) and changing the "x" and "y" variables near the top of the file. "x" is the width and "y" is the height. Note that the smallest supported values are 1024 (for "x") and 768 (for "y"). (Kudos to ewphoenix123 for this tip!)

 

[AndrewT]

Not in-game, no, sorry. No idea of the third-party app question I'm afraid - I'm sure you could Google for that as well as I could.