Back 4 Blood

Back 4 Blood

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Fullscreen Tweak (Exclusive-like Mode)
By enn
Note: This tweak doesn’t enable “true” exclusive fullscreen (the kind older games used). It forces Back 4 Blood into a borderless fullscreen mode that behaves almost the same on modern Windows. You’ll get proper refresh rate switching, lower input latency, and tearing/VRR support. The tradeoff is slower alt-tabbing, since Windows has to juggle display modes.

Navigate to the config

Head over to the GameUserSettings.ini config located in:

C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Back4Blood\Steam\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor

Alternatively you can type %localappdata% as a run cmd or path destination.

Open GameUserSettings.ini with a text editor and change these lines to = 0 :

FullscreenMode=1
LastConfirmedFullscreenMode=1
PreferredFullscreenMode=1



Save it and you're all done!

On exclusive fullscreen mode the game stops loading when it's not in-focus. Try not to Alt-Tab during loading screens. Game freezes may happen.

You can also change this line StaticResolutionScale= to scale the in-game resolution.

Originally posted by Scatman :
For anyone looking for help for UWP, I believe the directory is here:

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Packages\WarnerBros.Interactive.e172091a-6630-4ff3-959f-830_ktmk1xygcecda\LocalCache\Local\Back4Blood\WinGDK\Saved\Config\WinGDK
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21 Comments
VladGromov 16 Aug @ 5:15pm 
In DirectX12, anything referred to as "fullscreen mode" is a frame masking for frameless mode. There is no exclusive fullscreen mode in DirectX 12, do not mislead anyone, study the documentation:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3ddxgi/for-best-performance--use-dxgi-flip-model

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/demystifying-full-screen-optimizations/
Lilith 8 Jan, 2023 @ 12:14pm 
thats not exclusive fullscreen mode only windows can enable this now not games unless the engine was made to support it. This is still borderless fullscreen mode.
IceBeam 17 Jan, 2022 @ 11:14pm 
The game should also let you use the full-screen mode with the [Alt + Enter] shortcut. Useful to know in case you're forced back into the windowed mode mid-game or don't feel like editing the config file.
armedpoop 13 Oct, 2021 @ 5:48pm 
This guide worked just fine for me, shout outs to Scatman for the UWP location.
Beastien 13 Oct, 2021 @ 2:06am 
-d3d12 command line !? how to make that
Outplayedx 13 Oct, 2021 @ 2:02am 
Have no clue why a Fullscreen option isn't available by default...
FFox 12 Oct, 2021 @ 4:33pm 
You are a life saver! Borderless window is just stupid, from drops and suttering to hell to solid and smooth as butter 60fps.... Hell even if the settings menu shows an angry face... Can't believe the DEVS forgot (or didnt want to) implement something so crucial.
꧁༺ TheStario ༻꧂ 12 Oct, 2021 @ 4:03pm 
Спасибо большое, поставил лайк.
Mighty God Tomato 12 Oct, 2021 @ 10:48am 
Damn my game wont start after the changes, had to reinstall, someone with the same issue?

Borderless Fullscreen might be a workaround for game-loading, but instead I am having stuttering Issues (I can reproduce this in other games with borderless enabled) I really need an actual fullscreen, this is stupid.
armedpoop 12 Oct, 2021 @ 9:21am 
This has been one of my biggest complaints. If I can get this working on the uwp version I’ll be happy. Thanks for the guide and the person giving the uwp directory.