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ArranS96
7 years ago
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Battlefront 2 Refuses to go Fullscreen

No matter what I try I cannot get Battlefront 2 to go into fullscreen mode. I have tried changing the boot options to:

GstRender.FullscreenEnabled 1
GstRender.FullscreenRefreshRate 60.000000
GstRender.FullscreenScreen 1
GstRender.ResolutionHeight 1080
GstRender.ResolutionWidth 1920
GstRender.WindowBordersEnable 0

When I do this it tries and goes fullscreen for a second then reverts to windowed mode. Then when I check the boot options file it has reverted back to normal. I tried setting it to read-only but that doesn't work.

Pressing Alt+Enter doesn't work and Windows plays the sound (hard to describe) where something is wrong. Like, when you try to click outside a window that prevents you clicking anything else.

I have also tried the ingame options by setting it to windowed mode then setting it back to fullscreen mode. When I do this it asks if I wish to keep the settings or revert back but it doesn't actually change anything; it's still windowed. The options for which screen to fullscreen on and fullscreen resolution are greyed out. fullscreen refresh rate has nothing in it (see attached image).

I tried uninstalling Nvidia GeForce Experience to no avail. Latest drivers are installed. The only thing I haven't tried is re-installing it which I am not keen on doing as it took me 2 hours to download it in the first place and I'm doubtful that will solve the issue. 

I've been searching high and low on the internet and cannot find a solution to this. Does anyone know the answer?

PC Specs:

i5 3570k

GTX 970

8Gb DDR3

  • ArranS96's avatar
    ArranS96
    7 years ago

    Managed to fix it!

    I had to change the settings in ProfileOptions_profile to match the same settings I changed in the BootOptions file.

    For anyone reading later they are located (Windows 10) in your Documents -> Star Wars Battlefront 2 -> Settings

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  • ArranS96's avatar
    ArranS96
    7 years ago

    Managed to fix it!

    I had to change the settings in ProfileOptions_profile to match the same settings I changed in the BootOptions file.

    For anyone reading later they are located (Windows 10) in your Documents -> Star Wars Battlefront 2 -> Settings

  • Kerenskaya's avatar
    Kerenskaya
    5 years ago

    Hi!  What I did was go to this path in File Explorer/Windows Explorer: C:\Users\username\Documents\STAR WARS Battlefront II\settings, where 'username' is the name of your profile.  Then, I opened these two files: 'BootOptions' and 'ProfileOptions_profile.'  For each file, I opened them in Notepad.  Then, in each file, I searched for the following strings, from the original poster:

    GstRender.FullscreenEnabled
    GstRender.FullscreenRefreshRate
    GstRender.FullscreenScreen
    GstRender.ResolutionHeight
    GstRender.ResolutionWidth
    GstRender.WindowBordersEnable

    I changed the above strings to the following values, in both 'BootOptions' and 'ProfileOptions_profile,' so that those strings matched between the two files:

    GstRender.FullscreenEnabled 1
    GstRender.FullscreenRefreshRate 60.000000
    GstRender.FullscreenScreen 1
    GstRender.ResolutionHeight 1080
    GstRender.ResolutionWidth 1920
    GstRender.WindowBordersEnable 0

    Then, I saved changes to each file and closed them.  After that, when I ran Battlefront 2, it ran in fullscreen without borders.

  • Poor_Steal_GPU's avatar
    Poor_Steal_GPU
    5 years ago

    basically for anyone that is reading this later:

    if your game starts up but tabs out constantly even if you tab in it will automatically tab back out it is a conflict within the files.

    if you go to the boot options in C:\Users\username\Documents\STAR WARS Battlefront II\settings make sure your GstRender.WindowBordersEnable is at '0' and also make sure GstRender.FullscreenEnabled is at '1' so for the people that dont really understand here is a step by step version

    go to: C:\Users\username\Documents\STAR WARS Battlefront II\settings

    then make sure in both 'boot options' and ProfileOptions_profile change value from '1' to '0' on GstRender.WindowBordersEnable

    and on GstRender.FullscreenEnabled should make sure its value is on '1' i hope this helped. again i apologize for bad English

  • Raijian's avatar
    Raijian
    5 years ago

    @Poor_Steal_GPUthank you for being awesome. you came back to a thread multiple times to post updates and to hopefully help future people solve this and get back to enjoying the game and we need more internet users like you. your written english is not bad; i'd say it's excellent honestly so keep up the good work and thank you for all the detailed steps 🙂 people will find this for years to come.

  • EA_Atic's avatar
    EA_Atic
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    5 years ago
    I'm closing this thread to stop it being necroed.

    If you have any issues with SWBF2 please make a new topic about the issues you are having and what kind of steps you have tried to solve it.

    /Atic

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