Fullscreen Mode in Black Myth Wukong Explained
You won’t find fullscreen mode in Black Myth Wukong. From this guide you will learn how this affects the game performance.
Black Myth Wukong is one of the biggest premieres of the year or even in history. Yesterday over 2 000 000 people played in the title at the same time (via SteamDB). Despite popularity and very good reviews, the game is not perfect. It has some technical issues like crashes and it does not have HDR. However, one of the weirdest developers’ decision is lack of the fullscreen mode. From this guide you will learn how this affects the game.
Fullscreen Mode in Black Myth Wukong Explained
In Black Myth Wukong developers did not implement fullscreen. In graphics settings you will find only two display modes – borderless and windowed. What does this mean for performance?
Unavailable in Black Myth Wukong, fullscreen gives games full control over display and your computer focuses mainly on the title. This can increase your framerate by various number if done correctly.
Borderless is particularly useful for impatient players, who Alt-Tab during loading screens. This mode gives you easier access to other applications. So, you can switch between them without any problems. Additionally, this does not lock your cursor. So, if you have two screens, you can freely navigate on each of them. However, this can cause worse game performance (framerate drop). Luckily, in Windows 11 settings you can turn on “Optimizations for windowed games“ function. You will to this in System > Display > Graphics > Change default graphics settings.
If you are interested, we would like to recommend you our Black Myth Wukong guide. You can read about some mechanics like how to skip cutscenes. We have also written about many technical issues like CPU Overheat,
