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Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by SalamenceFury@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Hear me out. A few games have shader installations that will usually apply any new settings you put down AFTER you restart the game, and a lot of other games have graphics settings that will only apply after you've rebooted the game.

I don't think it would cost developers ANY amount of money or any significant development time to add a "Reboot game" button (or toggle) every time the player presses the quit button, or give the player a prompt every time they change a setting that requires a game restart (like in both PC versions of GTA V).

I also think ANY game should have a "full potato" mode capable of running in older computers with NONE of the fancy graphics stuff that we have access to today, despite having a decent computer now.

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[–] REDACTED 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Windowed borderless mode

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I should probably know this, but what's the deal with full screen vs windowed full screen? What's the difference?

Also why do people wanna play windowed? Maybe depends on the type of game..?

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Alt tab out to other apps without the game freaking out due to display settings

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh I see this makes sense. And theoretically better performance in full screen?

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I never saw a major performance difference, but being able to switch windows without the game possibly crashing is great. Especially in single player games, sometimes you just need to pause and check laundry, or check email. Alt tab and good to go.

That's the benefit I use it for. Some games force minimize when you tab off and they can crash when you try to tab back to them.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There used to be a noticeable graphics performance boost to an app when in full screen mode, but that was back in Windows 7 days and may not be true any more.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Game in one window, other things open in other windows. Game and do other things at the same time.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Genuine question: what issue does this address? Are there graphics driver issues with regular full screen in some cases?

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Some games minimize and try to lock your mouse to the game if you alt tab out. Windowed mode makes it pretty much seamless, pain free. No difference I ever found, just easier to alt tab out and check a map, take notes, pause and watch a video.

[–] SystemL@literature.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I never understood why people prefer it over full screen.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It enables quick window switching with no flickering. This may be a strictly Windows issue.

[–] SystemL@literature.cafe 1 points 2 weeks ago

No issues on linux

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah you're probably right. On Linux I just Ctrl Alt right arrow to my next virtual desktop and it's instant and seamless.