Fullscreen mode changing the size of other application windows; help please?

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Heya.

I’m working on a game and am implementing toggles for fullscreen mode. So far, the actual fullscreen mode for my game works fine, just as I intended. However, whenever I turn on fullscreen mode, this has the side effect of changing the size of some of my other maximized windows on my desktop; namely, Chrome and Discord. Whenever I turn my application to fullscreen, these two windows (which I usually keep open and maximized) pop down into the default size for my MonoGame application.

This is very annoying, and besides is not something I want to happen in the final game build. At first I thought that activating fullscreen without first adjusting the PreferredBackbufferHeight was causing my screen resolution to be set smaller than it should be as it fullsized (windows was popping up a message to this effect also), thus causing the resizes. However, I’ve now set it up so that backbuffer is set to the monitor resolution before I turn on fullscreen, but the problem persists. Perhaps there’s some other setting I need to change? I’m not as experienced with xna/monogame as some people here I’m sure, heh.

I really want to fix this, but I can’t seem to find anyone having similar problems when I google the issue. Anyone have any pointers? Much obliged.

  • Julie
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What is your GraphicsDeviceManager’s HardwareModeSwitch value?

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I didn’t know that that existed until now, but it is set to true.

I just set it to false on startup and it seems to have fixed my issue. Thank you! What exactly is HardwareModeSwitch doing?

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To my knowledge, when HardwareModeSwitch is false, it simply uses the desktop’s resolution. When it’s true, it changes the hardware display mode, which is why all of your other windows change size.

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