Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor have the ability to run in a full-screen borderless window. This looks just like full-screen, except the refresh rate will be set to that of your desktop. The procedure:
- Set the desired resolution and refresh rate for your desktop.
- Open the installation folder of your game and navigate to Config.
- Open the file options.txt.
- In that file, find Display{} section. In there, make sure the following options are set:
- windowed = 1
- maximize_window = 1
- Save the file. There is no need to make it read-only.
- Run the game as usual, without changing any options in the launcher. Check to make sure the refresh rate is now that of your desktop rather than the default 60Hz.
Trine, thankfully, has a better way of achieving this without bringing it out of true full-screen mode:
- Right-click the shortcut for Trine. Click Copy in the resulting menu. Right-click on an empty space below the shortcut. Click Paste in the resulting menu. You should now have Play Trine and Copy of Play Trine.
- Right-click Copy of Play Trine. In the menu, click Properties. Click the second tab, Shortcut.
- In that tab, there will be a text field, Target:. Click in there. Press the End key on your keyboard. The cursor will jump to the end of the line. You should see “trine_launcher.exe”
- Delete the word launcher and the underscore before it to end up with trine.exe.
- Press End again. You should see the cursor blinking to the right of the double quotation mark. Press space once and put this there:
- -refresh_rate_override 85
- Click OK to close the properties. You can rename this shortcut to anything you like.
- Double-click the new shortcut and make sure the game runs with the new refresh rate.
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