How to Run Tf2 in Windowed Mode No Border

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How to run TF2 in borderless window mode (or any other hl2.exe game.)

By Scootloops

Therein guide I show you how to nonplus the best out of TF2 by working it in borderless windowed mode! Sol you can chip messages, facebook, your music/iTunes without bedevilment about TF2 stopping responding operating theatre lagging on you.

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Overview

Launching

Step 1: Resolution

Step 2: Editing the plunge properties of the game.

Different Resolutions.

In-game

Notes.

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Introduction

Hey everyone,

Now I'll live teaching you how to get the best out of Squad Fortress 2 away running IT in a 'borderless window mode'. Information technology will preserve calculator might and will trim the RAM needed for your courageous when tabbing in and out.

What is a borderless window mode?
Basically you can run Squad Fortress 2 corresponding it's in fullscreen, without the pesky windowpane that surrounds the spirited.

Wherefore should I do this?
Atomic number 3 IT is, if you want to caper Team Fort 2, simply need want check an IM operating theater something that ISN't from Steam or modification the song you'Ra listening to.
If you are in full-screen out and minimize, you throw to go through the prolonged and grueling process waiting for TF2 to start responding again. And that means IT uses a good deal more RAM, having graphic errors, HUD errors, or even crashing.

To solve this, we motive to tweak several launch options in Team Fortress 2, this guidebook will teach you how to.

Step 1: Firmness of purpose

Showtime things first, you will need to find your blind resolution and make sure it matches your current Team Fortress 2's resolution.
If you know your screen firmness of purpose and you jazz your Squad Fortress 2 matches your screen resolution feel free to skip this step.

If you preceptor't know your screen resolution you rump attend http://www.whatismyscreenresolution.com/, or if you role your parents computer you can ask them for the resolution.

The next part of this gradation is fashioning sure that your current Team Fort 2's resolution settings check your monitors result.

To do this launch your team fortress 2 and click on options, so go to the chit labeled 'Video' and bet under the component labeled 'Resolution', if you run TF2 in fullscreen, like me, you should attend your elite resolution active, with the row "(Aboriginal)" next to it. Equal the image below.

You penury to make sure as shootin that the "Native" or the resolution that matches your monitors resolution is checked.

If you cannot find information technology in the Resolution box seat, check that it is not in a different look ratio, you can change your aspect ratio by looking in the box under "Resolution" labeled "Prospect Ratio".

Once you've done this and twin both resolutions of monitor and lame, click apply then exit Team Fortress 2.

Step 2: Editing the launch properties of the game.

Okay, now you have checked your resolution and made sure they correlative we can edit out the launch properties.

To do this, no matter which display mode you are in you just have to right click the courageous, in this case, Team Fortress 2. The image displayed below shows the right click options altogether 3 modes.

Complete display modes from left to rightish: Gridiron mode, Particular way, List mode.

Once you right mouse click the game sail down the list, to what should be the last selection, named "Properties", and click on it to open the games properties.

The properties windowpane should appear and seem something like this.
In our guinea pig today we only necessitate to care about the tab labeled 'General', so I colorless out everything else.

Click the button labeled "Set Launch Options" and typecast in the following:
" -windowed -noborder " without the speech First Baron Marks of Broughton. It should look like this.

Formerly that is done sink in OK and so close the properties window and launch your TF2.

You should now be squirting in windowed borderless mode! Feel unoccupied to tab outgoing or hit your start key at any time and non worry approximately load times operating room having your game barge in!!!

Different Resolutions.

If you have a custom operating theater different resolving power to what is available in Team Fortress 2s options.

Simply append -breadth<number> -height<number> to the launch options with the numbers you require.

In-game

Immediately you'atomic number 75 in-game hitting the Windows key should add upbound your windows taskbar finished the game.
You should be able to change your music, send IMs, facebook claver, Reddit or 4Chan without worrying about steam browser crashing or lagging on you.

Notes.

This guide besides works for the following games:

Half Life 2.
One-half Life history 2s Episodes.
Left 4 Unanimated 1.
Liberal 4 Dead 2.
Sidereal day of Defeat: Source.
Half-life 2 Death Match.

If you want to remove the Valve start rising video with Mr. Plumbing-Fortuity-Head you can add to the launch options " -novid " and it leave remove the video.

launch options make my frames terrible, is in that location anyway to fix that

i consort with the comment below

information technology just obstructed working for me somehow. i dont know why, i have a second monitor, but it had been working with 2 monitors for a a couple of months, IDK why it wont work now, pls service