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OldMonk002
7 years ago
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Unable to play Apex in Fullscreen. Keeps exiting to windowed mode.

I have a 4k monitor laptop with an i7 processor, 16 GB RAM and Nvidia GTX 1050 2GB graphics. Obviously, I can't run the game in 4k (which I'm not trying to). I'm trying to run it at a much lower resolution - something like 1600x900 or 1920x1080 but when i do so, I can just never get in to the full screen and can only do windowed mode. When i enter the option for fullscreen, the game momentarily tries to go to full screen and after a black screen comes back to a windowed form. My only option of playing this game right now is going to my display settings and changing it to 1600 x 900 and playing it on borderless windowed..

Did anyone experience this and have any fix? Thanks

  • OldMonk002's avatar
    OldMonk002
    7 years ago

    WOW. Dude, this actually worked! My taskbar was on top and I moved it bottom and now it works

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  • Toddynho-do-Mal's avatar
    Toddynho-do-Mal
    6 years ago

    I found a fix, if you have a nvidia card just go to Nvidia Control Panel and then go to Adjust desktop size and position, set the scanling mode to full screen and use the GPU instead of your monitor for scaling, then mark the box Override the scaling mode set by games and programs. Then you should be good to go. =D

    I think you can do this for AMD cards using their utility but i don't know how to do that.

    Here this worked like a charm and i can play in fullscreen again.

    Good luck for you guys i really hope that will help you all.

  • Sachi_BLANK's avatar
    Sachi_BLANK
    5 years ago

    I have my taskbar at the top and what worked for me is disabling News and interests. 

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