Is there a way to hide the menubar in windowed mode?

[Wizardling]

EQ Titanium, WinXP. I prefer to play in windowed mode so I can use my second monitor at the same time. It works well, but I'd love to be able to hide the menubar of EQ, so it wasn't there.

Also because the menubar is there, it pushes the window down a bit, so the very bottom of the playable area is below the screen edge. This is easy to work around, by simply moving UI elements upwards a few millimetres, no big deal. I did find, oddly enough, that actually moving EQ's window upwards so the top of the menubar went above the top screen edge, thus revealing the bottom of the playable area, resulted in graphic slowness. Thus I put things back the way they were, with all the menubar showing, and the very bottom of the playable area hidden below the screen edge.

All in all it's a minor issue, but I did wonder if there was a more elegant solution to either issue, or maybe both.

TIA :-)

[Ahnen]

Greetings Wizardling,

The solution to your problem is to use a utility called Borderless-Gaming.

Happy hunting!

[Wizardling]

Ah, I thought this was pretty neat and it seemed to all I wanted. But sadly in moving the window up and hiding the menubar, Borderless gaming left the UI's actual active location in EQ alone. In other words a button on my hotbar, for example, would have it's active location to be clicked as a button sized bit of screen real estate where it would have been before Borderless gaming moved the window, not where it was on screen. Naturally that broke the game badly, as where on screen controls in EQ appear, should also be precisely where I click to activate them.

Well, I appreciate the suggestion, and I'm sure it works with other apps, just not EQ Titanium in WinXP, sad to say. Or at least not with my setup. Thanks for trying, though! I will try Borderless gaming with other apps windowed modes, and perhaps it will fare better. I may still get some good use out of it :-)

[Life617]

Is alt+w what your looking for?

[Grimjaw]

I use WinEQ 2.0 and drag the screen up, thereby cutting off the top of the frame

[Wizardling]

Isn't alt-w the window selector bar in live EQ? Regardless of it having nothing to do with this topic (not trying to be rude, but I think you've misread the above subject and posts), I didn't think the window selector was in 1999's Titanium version of EQ. Either way, I've always disabled it, even in live, as it's a particularly pointless piece of UI redundancy.

As to WinEQ - well, I'm not sure I'm ready to pay (though how much, out of curiosity?) simply to avoid graphics stuttering when I drag the EQ Window upwards so the menubar is off the screen. Assuming WinEQ really will solve that. Does it specifically claim to?

Anyway, it's a minor issue - I live with the menubar and losing a few pixels at the bottom of my UI :-) Really I'm thankful EQ Titanium runs at all 10 years on.

[Life617]

Ok, so you're looking for a borderless gaming program. You could try this...

https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming

[Wizardling]

Originally Posted by Life617 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ok, so you're looking for a borderless gaming program. You could try this...

https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming

So many possible replies, but every one of them seems either rude (especially after straying the other week into the festering pit that is the rants section), or redundant. So I'll settle for wishing you well, and heading off to have some fun :-)

[Derubael]

As to WinEQ - well, I'm not sure I'm ready to pay (though how much, out of curiosity?) simply to avoid graphics stuttering when I drag the EQ Window upwards so the menubar is off the screen. Assuming WinEQ really will solve that. Does it specifically claim to?

WinEQ2 is free - you do have to register, but it takes 30 seconds and costs nothing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Worth trying out to see if it fixes your issue, though to be honest I only read this snippet of your thread.

Edit: Read your OP. Yes WinEQ2 should fix that issue, but don't take that as gospel because I don't actually use it, though most of the staff does.

[Wizardling]

Thanks Derubael - I had installed WinEQ when first setting up 1999, but when I reached the request to register, it made it seem as if I'd have to pay (or I misunderstood). I'll try again :-)

Go well fellow EQers!