Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 runs fine in borderless window mode though at a really crappy framerate, due to my computer having a way better screen than it has a video card. Because of this, I would like to play in full screen mode, where I can adjust the resolution to boost performance. However, whenever I try to adjust it, the result is a black screen, with music and game sounds playing, and a visible cursor.

Alt tabbing while this happens is also pointless. My computer’s desktop is now dominated by a grossly enlarged and zoomed in guild wars 2 screen. Essentially, it looks like the game is still in borderless windowed mode, but for a resolution about 4 times that of my screen. Trying to bring up any programs doesn’t work, because the game window is always on top.

The only workaround I have right now is to reduce the resolution on my computer manually whenever I want to play Guild Wars 2. But that’s not a long term solution. I have played Guild Wars 2 in full screen mode on this computer before, so I know its possible. I’ll try to provide screenshots of what I’m talking about, but since the only way I know to restore functionality to my computer after this happens is to sign out of it, I don’t know that I can.

I can’t get a screenshot of the game itself when it’s doing the error (black screen, cursor visible, music playing). The screenshot function doesn’t work, either the one built into my computer, or the one built into the game. There’s not much to show anyways.

But here is a screenshot of right after I ctrl+alt+deleted to get out of the game’s window. The process is still running, as I haven’t ended it yet (I also figured out how to get the task manager visible, enabling “always on top”). As you can see, the game seems to be running in the original resolution of my laptop (3000×2000), while now my laptop seems to be stuck in the resolution I attempted to set the game as (1600×900 in this screenshot, though I’ve tried with others as well).