Window or fullscreen

**nubikoen** · 06-03-2006, 13:53

Hi, I'd like to know if you're playing in windowed or fullscreen mode?

The reason I'm asking is because I've played windowed for quite a number of years now. I started playing windowed because it allower me to exit and enter/create games faster that way (It's pretty much a requirement when playing b.net, at least if you want to be able to follow a series of baalruns).

I enjoy the game much more when I play fullscreen, I do that now btw.

If you'd like to tell me why you play the way you do I'd appreciate it.

Cheers

Oh yeah, this is the first time ever I create a poll so I don't know if I'm doing it right :rolleyes:

**Pucho** · 06-03-2006, 14:11

Originally Posted by nubikoen

Oh yeah, this is the first time ever I create a poll so I don't know if I'm doing it right :rolleyes:

No, you've done it wrong! You've missed the "I like beer" and "I blame Durf" options :laugh:
btw, you really missed the "both" option, since I do play both

**Kefir-Tribe** · 06-03-2006, 14:23

I was about to start a poll on this subject myself. I play window all the way. The graphics is horrible in full-screen mode, I can't stand it.

On the other hand, lights, shadows and perspective makes full-screen much nicer so the perfect setup would be a neat little 10" flat screen with natural 800 x 600 resolution as secondary screen, just for d2.

**Denton** · 06-03-2006, 14:31

Windowed more than 95% of the time. Reasons:

- no videos(faster)
- load times seem somewhat faster
- it's a lot easier to do other things in the background while playing and alt+tabbing to another program is instantaneous, since resolution doesn't need to be changed
- although there's no 3D-acceleration available in windowed mode, it looks a bit better because it's sharper than in fullscreen, since my desktop resolution is 1280x1024 and D2 uses 800x600 resolution

I admit that the game is waaay more enjoyable in fullscreen with D3D(better looking effects and that nice perspective effect), but I like to do other things and have instant access to my background programs while playing D2, thus I like windowed mode better overall. Now if I'd play untwinked HC, I'm pretty sure I'd go with fullscreen all the time. :wink3:

**Bud Nearly** · 06-03-2006, 15:01

Fullscreen all the way here, even on my 19'' inch flat in DDraw I think the graphics still look quite nice for such on old game.

**Skullcaptain** · 06-03-2006, 15:17

Fullscreen! Yeah! Clearer! Nicer!

**XDoomasX** · 06-03-2006, 15:43

Windowed, for about 2 years now. Faster loading time and game looks sharper. But its pain in the a** when I click off sreen....in pvp or hc..

I heard there was some kind of program to fix this problem but my googling was fruitless.

**Reborn2k** · 06-03-2006, 15:45

Fullscreen. But can someone tell me how to activate the windowed mode?:laugh: Just adding "-w" to the shortcut or something like that? I only know it from the glide wrapper (which doesn't work properly) and there it's different...

**Thirty-Thirty** · 06-03-2006, 15:51

I started playing windowed for the loading times when doing Pindle runs (which netted be next to nothing). I just got used to the load speed, and have never looked back.