Spiral Knights - Windowed Problem

Windowed Problem

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Wed, 08/10/2016 - 14:04

Tapproot

The new update that allows you to adjust the screen size of the game while windowed broke running SK while in windowed mode without a the white bar at the top. In case anyone does not know, if you create a text file called "extra.txt" with the line "-Dorg.lwjgl.opengl.Window.undecorated=true" in it and put it inside of your Spiral Knights directory it will remove the white bar on top of a normal windowed application. This allows you to run SK while windowed, but it looks like it is in Fullscreen mode. The reason that this is important to me is because if I try to alt-tab out of SK at any point during the game in Fullscreen mode, the application will blackscreen and I have to restart the game. It is possible to alt-tab out of the game without it blackscreening in windowed mode, and that is the only way (that I know of) to keep the game from blackscreening.

What Spiral Knights looks like after the update: http://i.imgur.com/BN02KUM.png

As you can see, a thin white bar appears at the top that allows you to adjust the window size, and the game hides under the taskbar on the bottom. It's really inconvenient for me to run the game in fullscreen mode for reasons mentioned above and I play this game on a small laptop screen, so running in a smaller windowed resolution makes the game difficult to play. Really hoping that this gets fixed.

Thu, 08/11/2016 - 15:13

Flowsick

Same issue

i cannot change to 1920x1080 unless it is full screen i am using "Dorg.lwjgl.opengl.Window.undecorated=true" aswell and there is a line at the bottom of my screen .

Sun, 08/14/2016 - 15:18

Scootsy

Where did all of the windowed

Where did all of the windowed options even go? There used to be a plethora of them including 720p which I used sometimes for streaming and now the majority of them are fullscreen.

EDIT: You can choose a non-fullscreen option and resize the window to get the windowed resolution you desire, AFTER you restart the client from switching from a fullscreen to a windowed resolution.

I really dislike this change because it wastes time restarting the game and when streaming, if you accidentally click out and resize the game you have to fix it afterwards to get the stream looking right again. Would love to see it reverted ASAP or at least an option to lock the windowed size/add it to the display mode list or something, but I'll keep my expectations at the lowest because that's the only way to not be disappointed by an update at this point.

Sun, 08/14/2016 - 15:37

Petater

People can't complain about changes to an unofficial configuration being broken by an update. In addition, the update that did this actually fixed Mac OS X windowing manager integration, so one can leave sk in fullscreen there and tab to another virtual desktop. That being said, it should integrate properly with other OS windowing managers as well.

Problem is that the external LWJGL lib they use is a dumpster fire that got discontinued over a year ago.

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