Re: [TuxKart-devel] Fullscreen mode

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Ingo Ruhnke wrote:

> You can get into fullscreen by calling pwInit(FALSE, 0), however that
> doesn't give you real fullscreen, just a borderless window at the size
> of your desktop, which won't be much good for the lower-end hardware,
> see:

There isn't a whole lot of difference between a maximally sized borderless
window and a "full screen" window in any current OpenGL implementations.

The only ones where it really mattered were the old Voodoo-1/2 cards which
could really only do full-screen and where the fallback without full-screen
was abysmally slow.  However, TuxKart isn't gonna runs bearably on that kind
of hardware once we've improved the graphics much more than they are right now.

> No idea if there is a way to switch the graphics mode with plib to get
> fullscreen in a custom resolution.

No - there isn't a way to do that.

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