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DoctorGuruGuru
10 years ago

Star Wars Battlefront (Origin on PC) only can go to windowed mode

So I have played Star Wars Battlefront since the beta came out. Let me say, it is phenomenal. The graphics are awesome, I love the game play, and the star wars feel is just magnificent. However, I have only dealt with one, and only one problem since beta. It's the fact that Star Wars Battlefront never opens in fullscreen. Now before anyone tries to say that I should play in "fake" fullscreen aka windowed borderless to native resolution, I have the Lenovo Y50 UHD. If you are unfamiliar with this then what I mean is that I have a laptop with a 4K display monitor, meaning my native resolution is 4K. And as we all know, laptop GPU will not handle 4K resolution at all, especially not an EA + Dice title such as Battlefront. So I can only play in windowed mode which makes the screen ever so tiny on my monitor where I have to squint to play. Now, this has happened to me also after I have purchased the full game (a whole $60). Now, I am almost 100% satisfied with my expensive purchase if not for the tiny window screen. There is not much to say at this point but to ask if there are any fixes or patches that DICE can make so I can enjoy the game at fullscreen. While Im at it, I'll post my specs:

-CPU: Intel I7-4700HQ 2.4ghz quad core

-GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 2gbVram

-RAM: 16gb

-Drive: the game plays off a hard drive (not the SSD that came with the laptop)

-Monitor: 4K resolution monitor stuck to 48hz (yeah, i know).

Settings and FPS while in Battlefront: Plays at everything ultra except for anti-aliasing and ambient occulision which are usually at low. Resolution is at 1360x768. My average fps on maps like Hoth (barren) go to the 70 fps, maps like Endor stick around the 55-63 fps. Ship missions usually stray around 70 - 80 fps.

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  • TapouTony420's avatar
    TapouTony420
    10 years ago

    @DoctorGuruGuru

    Yea, unfortunately, laptop video cards are not that great.  However, have you tried turning down your settings to say, medium?  This may help out alot, and the game still looks amazing.  You could try fullscreen at that point to see if it will run without crashing.  Do you know where to switch from Windowed to Fullscreen?  Also, you say when you are playing in windowed mode, you have a very tiny window.  Do you mean the window is only filling up a part of your desktop?  Have you tried adjusting the size of the window?  Usually when it plays in regular windowed mode, it takes up the full desktop / screen, minus the bar at the top, and the taskbar at the bottom.

  • DoctorGuruGuru's avatar
    DoctorGuruGuru
    10 years ago

    Like I said, I run the thing at 1368x768 with everything maxed to ultra except for anti-aliasing and ambient occlusion which are low and on maps like Hoth I get 60 - 70 fps, space battles I get 70-80 (even 100s) fps, and on the map of Endor I get 55-60 fps even in heavy situations. I even tried medium settings where everything then just runs flawlessly at over 100 fps but to no avail with full screen. I know where to switch from windowed to fullscreen in the settings but in fullscreen mode the game is still in the windowed mode despite being enabled to fullscreen. And what I mean with the tiny window for windowed mode is that on a 4K monitor (of which I have), the game will run in windowed mode, but any resolution that's not 4K will end up being about a 5 inch wide x 4 inch tall little window. That small window is not a battlefront issue but rather just how any resolution scales on a 4K monitor; which is why I want to get fullscreen so I dont squint whilst playing in windowed. Remember, a laptop GPU is not the greatest gpu so if I increase the size of the window or even borderless window mode to take up my whole monitor, it won't accept my native resolution (4K) and run at a slow 5 fps. 

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