Anyone know of any 3D games that do fake full screen mode?

[9nines]

Someone wrote about ATI cards having 2D (slower) and 3D (faster) clock modes and added that ATI cards will operate in 2D clock speeds in "windowed" 3D games This explains why I got such a performance boost in Dungeon & Dragons Online when I recently fixed a problem, in its default settings. I learned the game defaults to windowed mode, even when in full screen (it displays as a full screen but it is technically in windowed mode.) Its INI file has a variable called FakeFullScreen and it is set to True, as the default setting. That change (to False) fixed graphical tearing and also made a material difference in FPS, stutter (hardly any at all now, except under heavy hard drive usage.)

First, I have no idea why the developers made FakeFullScreen the default. I am wondering if any other 3D games do this. Anyone know of any?

 

[jiffylube1024]

Can't think of any other games off the top of my head. Certainly not 3d shooters/FPSes, anything made by Blizzard, etc. Pretty much everything runs in "real" 3d mode by default.

 

[aweigh]

First time I've heard of anything like this. Perhaps you could investigate with FEAR's pixel-doubler option?

 

[ViRGE]

MMOs use fake full screen a lot(including World of Warcraft). It's so the user can alt-tab in to and out of the game quickly.

 

[hmorphone]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
MMOs use fake full screen a lot(including World of Warcraft). It's so the user can alt-tab in to and out of the game quickly.

I learn something new every day. (well, most days anyway...)

 

[imported_Crusader]

This sounds like a nice thing to have to worry about if you have an ATI card.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

oh so thats why far cry performnace goes down the drain when enabling windowes mode.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
MMOs use fake full screen a lot(including World of Warcraft). It's so the user can alt-tab in to and out of the game quickly.

World of Warcraft has a windowed mode that stretches to full screen if I'm not mistaken, but it also has a real fullscreen mode.