Windowed Borderless Fullscreen NWN

[MrGrendel]

Just a quick how-to for running NWN in windowed but border-less mode across the full screen. If you are having random NWN freezes, this might fix that issue. It fixed it for me. However, I didn't want to have it in a window. And NWN doesn't want to open in a window at the same resolution as the desktop. But I also don't want to have to manually diddle with the resolution every time to get this to work, when I can automate it.

Though it might seem involved, when all done, you will simply press ctrl-alt-1, click Play in the launcher, then ctrl-alt-2, and you will have NWN running windowed on a full screen.

Caveat: This will likely not work if:

A. You want to run your monitor at its highest supported resolution.
B. You want to have anti aliasing enabled in NWN. Not sure why, I have to disable it for this to work.
C. For some unforeseen reason this fries your monitor. Disclaimer: use at your own risk. I am not responsible for loss of hardware or lives.

1. Get a free program called Autohotkey. Install.

2. Make a new text file. Paste the following text into it.

!^1::
; Set resolution high
ChangeDisplaySettings( (ClrDep:=32) , (Wid:=1920) , (Hei:=1200) , (Hz:=60) )
ChangeDisplaySettings( cD, sW, sH, rR ) {
  VarSetCapacity(dM,156,0), NumPut(156,2,&dM,36)
  DllCall( "EnumDisplaySettings", UInt,0, UInt,-1, UInt,&dM ), NumPut(0x5c0000,dM,40)
  NumPut(cD,dM,104),  NumPut(sW,dM,108),  NumPut(sH,dM,112),  NumPut(rR,dM,120)
  Return DllCall( "ChangeDisplaySettings", UInt,&dM, UInt,0 )
}
; resolution done
; next, run NWN
Run, nwn.exe, C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN\
return
!^2::
; Set resolution back
ChangeDisplaySettings2( (ClrDep:=32) , (Wid2:=1440) , (Hei2:=900) , (Hz:=60) )
ChangeDisplaySettings2( cD, sW2, sH2, rR ) {
  VarSetCapacity(dM,156,0), NumPut(156,2,&dM,36)
  DllCall( "EnumDisplaySettings", UInt,0, UInt,-1, UInt,&dM ), NumPut(0x5c0000,dM,40)
  NumPut(cD,dM,104),  NumPut(sW2,dM,108),  NumPut(sH2,dM,112),  NumPut(rR,dM,120)
  Return DllCall( "ChangeDisplaySettings2", UInt,&dM, UInt,0 )
}
; resolution done
; next, remove borders and center window
WinSet, Style, -0xC40000, A
WinMove, A, , 0, 0, 1440, 900
;WinActivate, A
return

3. Change the red numbers to a resolution that your monitor supports and which is higher than you usually run. Change the blue numbers to your normal resolution. If needed, change the 60 Hz as well in each case and/or the 32 which is the color depth. If needed, also change the green text to match your NWN installation directory.

4. Change the file extension to .ahk and save it.

5. Right click on the .ahk file and compile script. This should generate an exe file in the same directory.

6. Run the exe. Now it will be in your tray. If you drop it in your Startup folder, it will run with Windows startup.

7. May not be needed, but you probably want to do this anyway: In C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN, edit nwn.ini and under [Display Options] add this line: Disable Intro Movies=1

8. In NWN itself, go to your "Options" then "Video" and "Advanced." Adjust the Anti Aliasing slider all the way to the left, ie "off."

9. Exit the game. From here on out, to start NWN, do the following:

a. Control-alt-1. This will change your resolution to a higher setting, and then bring up the NWN Launcher.

b. Click Play. Oddly enough on my system this changes the resolution back to normal even before step c. Have not bothered to troubleshoot why, since that needs to happen anyway. <_<

c. Control-alt 2. This removes the border from the current window, which should be NWN, and also centers it on your screen for you. It's also supposed to switch your resolution back prior to that.

That's it. Hope this will be helpful to someone. Or maybe someone has a more elegant way to do this. >_>