LEGO Rock Raiders A More Immersive Windows 8 Experience

[LimeKiller]

     I don't know about you, but I really dislike playing in windowed mode, especially in games that are (surprisingly) atmospheric. I thought I'd share my workaround with the site if anyone wants to see what I do.

 

This is what I have the game looking like on my machine:

 

 

 

     As you can see, it looks quite a bit like a full-screen game maintaining aspect-ratio. I find the black space around the window much less distracting than a wallpaper or miscellaneous icons.

 

     To achieve this, first, set the wallpaper either completely black or mostly black. This is the wallpaper I made to go with the game. The game window covers up the crystals. Similarly, you'll want to make sure all your icons are hidden as well. Right click the desktop and go to View > Show desktop icons. A much better idea.

     Next, you need to right-click on the desktop, go to Personalize > Color, and choose a grey color. Then turn the intensity all the way up and the brightness all the way down. This will change the edges of the window so they match the background, further adding to the illusion of a window-less game. Also, if this is too much work for every time you want to play Rock Raiders, you can save the color and background by finding Personalize > Save Theme. You can then quickly double click the theme and it will set all this up automatically.

     Finally, right-click the taskbar, go to Properties, and check Auto-Hide the Taskbar to make that go away.

 

     Also, you can change the resolution settings by right-clicking the desktop and choosing Screen Resolutions. If you set up Cafeteria, you probably won't need to do this but if not, click Advanced Settings > List all modes > 800x600, True Color (32 bit), 60 hertz

 

I don't know if this is at all helpful, or if anyone really cares, but I find it much more enjoyable playing like this so I thought I'd annoy everyone else with it.

[le717]

Nice wallpaper! Downloaded.

  On 6/3/2014 at 12:16 AM, LimeKiller said:

The game window covers up the crystals. Similarly, you'll want to make sure all your icons are hid behind the game window as well. I don't have very many, so it wasn't too hard.

Or right-click on the Desktop, and go to View > Show desktop icons

  On 6/3/2014 at 12:16 AM, LimeKiller said:

go to Personalize > Color, and choose a grey color. Then turn the intensity all the way up and the brightness all the way down. This will change the edges of the window so they match the background, further adding to the illusion of a window-less game.

So that must be what is creating the Metro-style X button illusion. Nice!

If When I finally get around getting my copy of Rock Raiders running and actually play it, I'll have to remember this.

[Cyrem]

Interesting workaround for fake fullscreen. I agree, playing in the default windowed mode is sort of annoying.

 

Can't say I'll use it since I can't even play RR at the moment with this GFX card, but thanks for sharing