If you don't know why borderless fullscreen is so important, you probably game on one monitor. Some of us game on two, and we come to know borderless fullscreen very well. If you're thinking about going dual-monitor, let me fill you in on why this program is so useful.

You're probably already familiar with the "borderless windowed" option alongside the "windowed" and "fullscreen" options in some games' video menus. For a single monitor, borderless window mode is just that fullscreen mode that makes the game not minimize all the way when you alt+tab out of it to do something else, but it's a heck of a lot more if you're working with two monitors.

You know how when you're using regular full-screen mode and you alt+tab out of the game, the screen flashes a little bit when you tab out and back in? If you have a video running on a second monitor, that flash kills it. Sometimes you can fiddle around and get it to work, sometimes you get lucky and it works the first time, but sometimes there's no help. If you game with 2 monitors, this will eventually frustrate you -- and none of it happens if you get the game to run in bordless mode. It's like a magic switch that fixes all that crap, but unfortunately most games still don't have the option.

A year or so ago, I came across this program on the steam forums while dealing with a particularly finnicky old game. I got a copy for free back then and it's been a lifesaver. It's easy to use and I have yet to find a game that it doesn't work on. When I saw they had updated (significantly from the looks of it) and moved to steam, I had no problem throwing a few bucks at the screen for the amount of pain in the ♥♥♥ this program has saved me. It may not make that much of a difference if you game on one monitor, but if you game on two, this is well worth the money.

I should note that sometimes in my experience, it will cut off the bottom and top of the game screen by a few pixels - not enough to matter, but enough to notice. I should also note that it seems to have settings available to fix this, but so far I haven't been inconvenienced enough to try fiddling with them.

I've been a user of the free standalone Borderless Gaming app for some time now, and it's definitely a very useful piece of software. That free version is certainly well-worth the $4 asking price [on Steam] for how easily it's able to enable borderless windows across most games. This actual retail version though? Not so much.

The problems stem from the Steam integration, which add a handful of annoyances which have immediately made me revert back to the free version. This includes a lingering system process even when you exit the application, which causes Steam to continue to register you as "In-App" and prevents you from exiting Steam until you track down the process in task manager and end it manually. It also causes issues if you set the app to run on Windows startup, as it will not do so without Steam launching first. For users who don't always want to have Steam open / run games outside of the Steam library, these new hooks can be a bit tedious to work with.

I'm not going to refund my purchase, since I honestly believe the developers deserve it for their work leading up to this Steam release, and since I'm willing to wager they'll end up fixing these issues over time. Until then though, I suggest sticking with the non-Steam version of the app, unless you're the sort who doesn't mind tossing their money at hard-working freeware devs.

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[ENG]

Borderless Gaming, an interesting piece of software, allows you to instantly switch between your games and the rest of your computer contents very quickly by "ALT-TABing". What are the pros and cons for this 8th version?

+Very effective
+No need to set the V-Sync "ON" anymore
+Open source
+Freely available to use at ► https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming
+Compatible with most of the games, may they be from Steam or not
+"Favorites" library to automatically detect and make borderless your chosen games
+Friendly-user developer who listens and answers to his community
+Buying this version includes free updates to upcoming versions

-Lack of a process renaming function in the "Favorites" section (i.e. "Sleeping Dogs" instead of "HKShip.exe")
-A very few games remain uncompatible with Borderless Gaming (Most of them already allow borderless display in options)

Being a user of this software for 2 years now, I think it is really useful to every multi-task gamers.
The software never slows your system down and runs silently at Windows startup if you want to.
I only bought it to support the developer's nice work.

This software is a must have, from low to high performance level computers.

This screenshot shows a few examples ran thanks to Borderless Gaming:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=487342479

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[FR]

Borderless Gaming est un logiciel intéressant vous permettant de passer instantanément de vos jeux au reste de vos applications via la fonction "ALT-TAB". Quels sont les avantages et inconvénients de cette 8ème version?

+Très efficace
+Plus besoin d'activer la synchronisation verticale
+Open source
+Téléchargeable gratuitement ici ► https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming
+Compatible avec la plupart des jeux, qu'ils soient sur Steam ou non
+Fonction "Favoris", pour détecter automatiquement et afficher sans bordure vos jeux sélectionnés
+Développeur sympathique et réactif vis-à-vis de sa communauté
+Acheter cette version inclut la mise à jour gratuite vers les versions ultérieures

-Manque d'une fonction de renommage des processus dans la section "Favoris" (Par exemple, "Sleeping Dogs" au lieu de "HKShip.exe")
-Quelques rares jeux restent incompatibles avec Borderless Gaming (La plupart d'entre eux proposent déjà la fonction sans bordure dans les options)

En tant qu'utilisateur de ce logiciel depuis 2 ans, je le trouve vraiment utile pour tous les joueurs.
Ce soft ne ralentit jamais votre système et démarre silencieusement avec Windows si vous le souhaitez.
Je l'ai acheté pour apporter mon support au développeur.

Ce outil est un indispensable, qui convient aux PC modestes comme aux PC les plus puissants.

Cette capture d'écran indique quelques exemples de jeux affichés via Borderless Gaming:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=487342479

I really don't have a need for this software, nor have I ever had a need for it, and I probably won't use it anytime soon. But I still bought it because I felt like the hearty chuckle I got from the requirements was worth $3.39.

This software makes a lot of games so much more enjoyable for me. Can't believe it's not a built in option for most games or the Steam overlay.