Same issue as others: can't activate real fullscreen mode, it flickers then gives up.
Windows 8.1, MSI laptop, 870M, no overlay software running (that I know of, even tried turning off origin's overlay), no DPI scaling.
my dxdiag: http://hastebin.com/uzoceqejat.tex
One oddity of my setup: I'm using the laptop's mini displayport to connect to an external HP ZR30W monitor @ 2560x1600. I haven't tried DA:I on the laptop's built in screen. No one else mentioned this, so it's probably unrelated, but as a software engineer myself I wanted to error on the side of too much information 🙂
I haven't had this issue with any other games.
Windowed fullscreen mode is playable, but I have to turn down the settings to mostly medium to get decent FPS (but mesh at high to fix shiny hair issue). For other games real fullscreen mode is usually better FPS than windowed, so it'd be nice to get this fixed. It also gives the option of trying a lower resolution, but upscaled w/ higher settings.
EDIT: I also tried Clean Boot, and it didn't help either, so it's unlikely to be a service or startup app. I don't really install many native Windows things these days anyway other than games (security paranoia 🙂 )
Well, to be honest I don't think they even care anymore.
It pisses me off to see at least 200+ comments about this issue of tons of people trying to find a solution and not a single comment from either EA, or Nvidia (there's a similar post in the Nvidia forums, the guys there said they acknoledge the problem, and they neither did anything about it for the past month nor said anything since - but hey, at least we got a driver for MGSV*).
I'll check the driver's setting for the game via Nvidia Inspector today, to see whether it disables full screen or something.
It might also be a problem of "Optimus" itself, as I don't see people with mobile SLI configured rigs with this problem.
It may also be a weird problem where, because of the screen connected to the Intel GPU and not the dedicated one, it won't recognise the screen or somethings, because as I said - full screen works fine with the Intel GPU.
I no longer think it's a hidden ASUS program that overlays the screen or something as this problem occurs on Lenovo and MSI computers as well - still, might be worth looking into it.
These are my thoughts, you're all welcome to share yours, and tell me what have you tried so I can rule out more options.
*"MGSV : Because when a japanese company makes a better PC port than yours, you know you screwed up."
