there are a variety of games that don't factor in the window's border when playing in windowed mode and the scale the game appropriately, so that when playing in windowed mode at native resolution a portion of the bottom of the game ends up going off the screen.... Dragon Age 2 is one such example, and it's pretty annoying as you end up missing a portion of your action bar in the game.... the only real choice you're left with is to lower the games resolution, which also sucks, or play in full screen...
anyways, there's a fairly decent solution i thought i'd share...
if you download the program AutoHotkey, you can write a script with it that is bound to a key to take care of this for you
^z:: WinSet, Style, -0xC40000, A WinMove, A, , 0, 0, 1920, 1080 ;WinActivate, A return
in this example, within the windowed game you'd press Control Z and it would get rid of the windows border and position it on your first monitor (if you have a different monitor resolution, change the 1920, 1080 to your resolution)
say you had dual 1080 monitors, and you wanted the game to be on your second monitor instead of your first, the WinMove line would look like this:
WinMove, A, , 1920, 0, 1920, 1080
anyways, just thought i'd share this tip.... perhaps somebody will find it useful
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windows mode seems like a complete afterthought in most games that i've played. Blizzard games are the only ones I've played that have given you complete control of maximizing the window or getting rid of the border all together from within its settings UI.
awesome though, glad somebody made use of it i tossed the script in my startup folder
-------------------- Everything is better than it was the last time. I'm good. If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence. I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too. If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.
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