*Sorted - I just had to get deeper into the graphics/video settings - sorry for the pointless post!* Hi all, Just on the off-chance, does anyone have any idea why I might be having problems with full screen mode while being able to run TSC fine in windowed or borderless format? Specifically, the graphics become very glitchy, with horizontal interference patterns in both 32 bit and 64 bit. I can play it without problems in smaller screen format, but I want to be able to use the full screen capacity. I've installed TSC on a decent laptop (I know this is not necessarily the ideal set up, but I don't really have the logistical ability to run a desktop) with the following specs: Intel Core i7-12700H 16GB RAM 1TB SSD NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8GB 17.3" QHD IPS 165Hz Display Thanks
Sounds like a VSync issue. I don't see any advantage of running in exclusive Fullscreen. Windowed borderless fullscreen has always been my choice.
Thanks - it was, and I seem to have fixed it. I’m not a TSC expert, but I assumed full screen was best for performance and preventing distractions… Is that not right?
As systems can behave differently, you should check yourself. Press Shift+Z ingame to see FPS, or configure the Steam overlay to show them and compare. In the "old" days, say 10, 20 years ago when computers had less resources, exclusive DirectX Fullscreen was the best option - this is not the case today, there's no noticeable difference and Fullscreen is less system friendly. The advantage of borderless is that Windows is still in control, the output is just working like any other window, only that is has no border and buttons and is exactly the same size as your screen. Alt-tabbing is unproblematic and I can drag a Youtube Picture-in-picture window onto my cab on long journeys and use my screenshot tools. Just test what suits you best.
Thanks Torf - I've been dabbling with the settings, and I think you're right that I'm getting at least as good performance in borderless as in full screen, and possibly slightly better. Interesting...
Yeah. The only real advantage FullScreen offers is that you can select resolutions that are different from your desktop resolution.
Just set the resolution to what you want in fullscreen, save and exit, when you relaunch go to settings change to borderless but do not touch the resolution field, save and exit and the resolution will stick to what it was on fullscreen.
