Quite often the Internet can encounter questions from players about how to minimize the game window.Unfortunately, others do not always properly understand that a person needs, and begin to advise the various key combinations that are simply rolled up the game on the taskbar.But what if you want to play it in a window?After all, this mode is very useful if you want to quickly switch between applications, for example, if you play at work, and the chief went into the office is not very timely ...
Built-
Many game developers create their own applications with the wishes of the user, focusing on our needs with you.Competition in the gaming industry encourages creators to excel so that the user was comfortable, and he chose the product of a particular firm.What this leads?
Hide the game in a window can be built-in functions of the application.Despite the difference in interface, you need to make about the same action:
- go in the settings.It may be a button with the same name in a single game, or (more often) image gears in online games.
- There go to the tab video (graphics).
- you have to wonder screen resolution settings.Often it is next to them is located a switch that is responsible for running the application in a window.
- put a tick in front of the parameter "window."
combinations
How to make the game in a window, if digging in the settings, you found nothing.Most of the old games support a certain key combination, after clicking on which the game is translated in windowed mode.However, it works for many modern games.There are several variants of combinations:
- Alt + Enter.
- R.Alt + R.Shift + Enter.
The idea is that after clicking your application should go to windowed mode, but if it does not happen, then there are still some other options, how to roll off the window.
label
Try "poshamanil" to label your toys, which is located on the desktop.To do this, click the right mouse button on it and choose "Properties".Then in the "Shortcut" we are interested in a line, in which the path to the executable file.For example, "C: ... / igra.ehe".Now, at the end of the line you need to add one of the following expressions:
- "-w";
- "-windowed".
without quotes or other punctuation.If you are lucky, after the start of the game through the shortcut by double-clicking it will boot in windowed mode.If this does not work, you still have the last, radical way to minimize the game window.
desperate for
course, much depends on the purpose of why you need to run the game in a window, and the capabilities of a personal computer.How to minimize the game window?The latter method implies that you basically have launched in the program, and a computer powerful enough iron.However, it is not quite "in".What do you need for this?
- The first thing you need to download - is a virtual machine, for example, VirtualBox from Microsoft.
- Then, once installed on a computer, the settings for this program you must allocate space on your hard disk by creating a virtual hard disk drives.What it is?This space in the memory, completely cut off from the rest of the disc.So you can do with it what you like, without damaging the rest of the data.It is recommended to allocate about 100 GB.
- This virtual disk, set the operating system that best suits your game.Do not forget about the driver.When it comes to the online game, set to re-connect.
- Spend install the game to a new "axis".
- Can run.Now your application is running "in the window."You can turn off the virtual machine with one click of the mouse.And if you are not playing online, the game will automatically be paused (frozen) means VirtualBox.
The more convenient it this way?Set up a network between your PC and the virtual OS, you can run on the same computer multiple instances of applications, which in ordinary cases issue a warning that "already running another copy of the application."
