Horizontal scanlines in windowed mode games

[Randalmcdaniel]

Does the newest version of dxwrapper handle windowed mode differently? Im now noticing borders around games in windowed mode that never had them before.

I noticed that forcing windowed mode through dxwrapper now behaves as if i enabled windowed mode through the games options. Which sucks. The reason i use dxwrapper is to OVERRIDE stuff

The reason im talking about this is because i am seeing horizontal lines in windowed mode games. Its not a vsync issue either. Its different. I've fixed this issue in the past by simply removing the border of the window itself. (by making the game fullscreen, then enabling windowed=1 in dxwrapper resulted in a windowed mode without any border. And no issues of horizontal scan lines.

Im starting to suspect that ANY sort of border around a window crams the pixels together. But i could be wrong.

i prefer to play old games in windowed mode. because i want the pixels and fov to be PURE.

if you watch this video i just made (playing FEAR with the newest version of dxwrapper) you can see about 75% of the way through the video i am looking at a wall with bricks and there are noticable horizontal scanlines occuring. Vsync on or off has no effect on these lines

[Randalmcdaniel]

Ok this is definately a real thing, heres another game with the same exact issue. And i show how to fix it with dxwrapper. Anyone have any ideas or theories of why this occurs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lorzIy1dJQg

[elishacloud]

I suspect it may be this check-in that caused the issue: efe58fd

It is because I am adding a border to the window. Are you using DXVK? Can you try removing it? It only adds a border when it detects vulkan.

[elishacloud]

Thanks for the YouTube video. Try this update: dxwrapper.zip