What's up with game pass PC not allowing fullscreen on a bunch of games?

Hi,

What games are crashing? Some, or all of them?

Games from the Windows Store (or Game Pass) either have Fullscreen Optimization enabled by default or run in Windowed Borderless mode which shouldn't cause games to crash when attempting to ALT+TAB.

You can check whether Fullscreen Optimizations are enabled or not by opening the Xbox Game Bar via Win+G. If you are running in Fullscreen Exclusive, then the display brightness may be flicker. If you are in Fullscreen Optimizations, the Xbox Game Bar should pop up as an overlay.

Sounds more like a graphics driver issue to me.

Windows Apps can not have Fullscreen Optimization disabled as it's not possible to access their exe file to disable them.

Hi,

You're lucky you managed to download the game. At the time of typing this reply I've been been trying to download it for the past hour with no success, but I digress..

While I don't have this game yet, I've seen a few issues with some games from the Windows Store and Game Pass with weird issues like this.

What resolution is your desktop set to?

What resolution is the game set to?

If like the above game resolution question you can actually see the in-game options, what display modes are present if any? I'm talking about options such as 'Fullscreen', 'Borderless' and 'Windowed'. I know these settings exist on the Steam version, so
I'm assuming they're also in the Windows Store/Game Pass version? Does, 'Fullscreen' take you to fullscreen?

If your desired graphics resolution was 1080P (or 1920x1080) and you set your desktop resolution to this, then ran the game, is it fullscreen now?

Sorry for the questions. Ever since I saw the tech breakdown of this game via Digital Foundry I've been interested in playing it on PC. Once I get mine to download I'll let you know if I have the same issue.

Be aware that, whilst game Pass Ultimate allows you to play Game Pass games on both console and PC, not all games are available on both platforms...some Game Pass games are only on PC, some are only for console.

What game/s are you trying to download?

As a bunch of people are saying. Cross platform is great and an amazing way to bring the community together, but there needs to be something that will allow PC and Console in FPS games to be even. maybe stronger aim assist or what not.

It's really a shame that Microsoft seems to ignore the details that make things great instead of just ok.

There are more and more games that have this exact issue and it's insulting that Microsoft doesn't seem to care about a fix as the feedback is ignored.

So far this happens on:

Sea of Thieves

State of Decay 2

Astroneer

And more......

Microsoft knows that PC gamers need proper fullscreen (not windowed borderless) to enjoy these titles the way they were meant to be played.

Every time I come across a game that does this and I simply uninstall it, the closer I get to asking myself why I continue to fund a project that Microsoft doesn't seem to care much about.

Perhaps it's from porting the titles across from console where there's no taskbar to cause problems as the OS is locked down on Xbox, and sheer laziness to just expect customers to be happy with these flaws?

I'm about done.