Windowed mode
 

Is there a way to play SH4 on windowed mode? I just reinstalled it today...

There is a checkbox in the graphics option menu.

Hi,

I've selected the windowed mode box in the graphic options, applyed changes, but still the game carry on running in full screen...?

Regards,

L

I think you need to restart the game.

Why do you want to use the windowed mode?

I don't know about his reasons, but I like to play in windowed mode so I don't have to alt+tab my way back to the desktop to check in on subsim during those lonesome patrols through the pacific! :D

And to not have parts of the desktop be total immersion killers I start IrfanView in fullscreen in the background showing a map with shipping routes which better represents the navigation map than the one given in TMO1.8 (well at least it seems to me like that). So I just move SH4 window to look at the map.

Also it comes in handy if you use other external tools with SH4.

OK, those are good reasons. I like the full screen, but I can see if you use other tools or use the internet it would be more convenient.

After checking "Windowed mode" in graphics settings, exit the game, make a shortcut for SH4.exe wherever you want, enter its properties and under "Shortcut" tab, select "Run: Minimized".

Only works for me this way. Windows 7 here.

I've tried everything mentioned here and I can't get windowed mode to work. Don't think I've ever gotten it to work now that I think of it.:hmmm:

I only had a problem once with windowed mode: I turned it on but it did not seem to work. But then I realized, that I had the same resolution as in fullscreen wich is the same as the native of my monitor (1920x1200). So in windowed mode it was still fullscreen, cause as a window it is actually lager due to the top-bar of the window. Try to set it to a smaller resolution that it is smaller than your screen as a window.