Is it possible to upscale a windowed game?

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I'm using Win7 and will upgrade to Win10 next year.

I bought a GTX 1070 to run games in 4K. Some run smooth @ 60FPS, others are barely able to sustain 30FPS.

Even though I wanna play games @ 4K, I'd rather go lower resolution to keep 60FPS. But of course I don't wanna play on a small window, I'd need some way to resize the game's window to fullscreen.

Is there any way to do it transparently to games? In example, set them to windowed mode @ 1080p and upscale the window to 4K?

Edit: Unfortinately playing games on fullscreen isn't an option. I really need to play them on windowed mode.

The best solution would also include making the window borderless, many games have that available but only on a "maximized borderless window", if it's not maximized its window gets a border. Some games make it even worse, forcing fullscreen when its window is maximized.

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Best Answer

Fullscreenizer solution

One possible solution is to download Fullscreenizer (direct download), which is a free, portable, and open source tool for Windows. Using it, you can "Fullscreenize" a game (or any application), which forces it into a borderless window, stretched to fill your entire display.

It also has some other features which make it a better solution than native borderless windowed modes, such as preventing taskbar flickering and preventing popup notifications (optional).

How to use Fullscreenizer

You should set the render resolution to windowed 1080p (or your desired downscaled resolution) in your game and then "Fullscreenize" it once you've locked in your settings.

If you don't see your game or app on the list of programs, click "Refesh" in Fullscreenizer to refresh the list of running programs.

Why Fullscreenizer?

Games are inconsistent with how they handle fullscreen and borderless on lower resolutions, so that's why for this case we should rely on an OS-based solution and not a per-game solution.



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How do I make a windowed game bigger?

Press Alt + Spacebar again to open the window menu, arrow down to Size, and press Enter . Press the up or down arrow key if you want to resize the window vertically or the left or right arrow key if you want to resize horizontally.

How do you Upscale a window?

Here's how.
  • Go to the Windows Start Menu.
  • Choose Settings.
  • Select System.
  • Select Display.
  • Look for the Change the size of text, apps, and other items under Scale and layout. Select an option, such as 125% or 150%. Displayed items will appear larger as the scaling increases.
  • Your display will re-size.


    • Does playing a game in windowed mode improve performance?

    General: Games in Fullscreen have better Performance, just because the explorer.exe of Windows can take a break. In window mode, it has to render the game and averything else you have open. But, if it is fullscreen, it renders everything from your desktop when you shift there.

    How do I adjust a windowed game?

    Press Alt+Enter while you're playing a full-screen game to enable windowed mode. You can press the shortcut again to switch out of windowed mode and re-enable full-screen mode, too. This keyboard shortcut doesn't work in every PC game.


    Ways to Force Fullscreen SOME Games to Play In Windowed Mode



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    Answer 2

    Another upScaler is the IntegerScaler.

    Download, start application, focus desired window to be upscaled, press Alt F11, the window app/game transform into a FullScreen application.

    Only drawback, it can only upscale in integer steps. So window to be upscaled must be half or quarter of full screen size, windows with different proportion will lead to black blocks on sides.

    Answer 3

    Why do you want to set it to windowed mode? every game supports 1080p nowdays. You just need to change the settings in the game.

    Or you can actually change the windows 7/10 resolution every time you want to play a game that for some reason doesn't let you set the 1080p resolution. Its quick

    Got the instructions here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/14108/windows-7-change-screen-resolution

    Open Screen Resolution by clicking the Start button The Start button, clicking Control Panel, and then, under Appearance and Personalization, clicking Adjust screen resolution.

    Click the drop-down list next to Resolution, move the slider to the resolution you want, and then click Apply.

    Click Keep to use the new resolution, or click Revert to go back to the previous resolution.

    you probably can just right click the descktop and select "Display settings" thats how i do it in win10.

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