Fullscreen, borderless or windowed?

[Skydiver]

So I was curious to know how the LTT community likes to game! Maybe add your reason in the comments

[Senzelian]

Fullscreen.
What's the point of borderless?

[Zambonie]

11 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

Fullscreen.
What's the point of borderless?

 

The reason why I use borderless is because if you want to focus your mouse out of the game, it'll just go ahead and overlay the taskbar and windows over the game, instead of having to have the screen flicker for a few seconds and go completely back to desktop. I guess also, if you want to take a screenshot of the game using an external program like puush, you can do it in borderless because the game acts as its part of the actual desktop, instead of being a separate display.

[terrytek]

borderless. that way i don't have to wait to switch from one program to another, since i'm technically not in fullscreen, so it doesn't take an eternity to switch.

[Zambonie]

-snip something weird happened-

[typographie]

14 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

Fullscreen.
What's the point of borderless?

I's much quicker and more seamless to switch between multiple windows. I find myself wanting to switch out of a game to a Chrome tab, music player, or chat window relatively frequently. In some games with shoddy vsync implementations, playing in a borderless window can also eliminate tearing.

 

Really the only potential downside to borderless is that it forces vsync on whether it's on in your game's options or not, which is either a huge problem or a huge convenience depending on the circumstances.