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whats with opening in windowed mode?

Discussion in 'Troubleshooting: Bugs, Questions and Support' started by 09grizzly550, Apr 10, 2020.

  1. 09grizzly550

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    the game will open in windowed mode no matter what i do! i select fullscreen in the start menu and apply it, but the next time i come back in, its back to starting in windowed mode! also, i can now only open the world editor in windowed mode as well. why are there so many things broken in this game after this "update"?
     
    #1 09grizzly550, Apr 10, 2020
  2. Leeloo

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    This could be related to access issues caused by third-party software. And please make sure that your Userfolder is placed in a location that doesn't require any special permissions, you can move it through the Launcher -> Manage Usefolder menu.
     
    #2 Leeloo, Apr 10, 2020
  3. 09grizzly550

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    its never been an issue until this broken update.......
     
    #3 09grizzly550, Apr 10, 2020
  4. 09grizzly550

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    tried moving it to the desktop and no change. nothing has changed on my end except this game updated. still opens in windowed mode every single time no matter what i do. and why does the game have to be in windowed mode to access the world editor? it was fine before. or is windowed mode the new standard?
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    i even tried a fresh install, so its got to be something with the game files defaulting to windowed mode.
     
    #4 09grizzly550, Apr 11, 2020
  5. Nadeox1

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    This update is in the middle of some major rework of the whole window system.
    We are fixing a lot of old issues related to this that made the entire system unreliable.

    While there are fixes, there can also be new issues.
    This was expectedL there are infinite monitors and screen combinations possible out here, we could only tests the one in our own setups.

    The next hotfix will fix many more that did not originally made into the update:
    https://www.beamng.com/threads/0-19-discussion-thread-use-safe-mode-before-reporting.69488/
     
    #5 Nadeox1, Apr 11, 2020
  6. 09grizzly550

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    i had zero issues with the old system and it worked way faster than this currently bugged update. im having issues with the maps taking 10x longer to load in than beforehand as well.
     
    #6 09grizzly550, Apr 11, 2020
  7. Nadeox1

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    But others people did..
    These fixes will be fixing these for everybody, but we need to break things again to fix them first (as we are basically removing ton of old and messed up code in there).

    Cheers
     
    #7 Nadeox1, Apr 11, 2020
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  8. dermetzgerhaus

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    user folder was set to read only for me. corrected and fixed the issue.
     
    #8 dermetzgerhaus, Sep 9, 2020
  9. P_enta

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    just hit fullscreen for now and wait for a fix its only 2 seconds.
     
    #9 P_enta, Sep 9, 2020
  10. Juan Pablo Bruno

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    i know it's late, but if someone with the same problem is reading this, here is the solution.
    Go to user folder > settings and open "game-settings.ini" with a text editor, change "GraphicDisplayModes = Window" to "GraphicDisplayModes = Fullscreen" (line 18), save file and that's it.

    If this doesn't work, right click "game-settings.ini" and go to properties, then tick "Read-only" attribute and apply.
     
    #10 Juan Pablo Bruno, Aug 20, 2021
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