Windowed Mode Without DXWnd (Step-By-Step)

[Jayce]

All credit for this goes to Gibbed, however some people are having a lot of trouble doing this due to the lack of a step-by-step.

• First off, you're going to need to enable 'debug mode'. You can use this guide.
  
• Once debug mode is active, open a notepad file and paste in the following code: OverrideRenderSettings="True"
RenderFullScreen="False"
size_window_x="1024"
size_window_y="768"
  
• Save as 'master.ini' (be sure to save as 'all files' rather than .txt or this will not work.
  
• Place the new master.ini file in your Dead Rising 2 directory
  
• You will now have a windowed Dead Rising 2! the benefit to this rather than DXWnd is that you can still see your mouse cursor and interact with the in-game map and messages.
  

If you didn't notice, the size_window_x and y are your resolution.

If you change the values and the game window however does not respond to this, open your game with the non-debugged application and change your resolution settings in-game.

I hope this helped, any questions feel free to ask.

- Jayce

[anno1404]

modifying the deadrising.exe file replacing a 1 with a zero, then adding a user.ini text file to your deadrising 2 folder works just as well.

Here is the downloadable deadrising.exe file with the changes.



Here is my user.ini file:

enable_dev_features="True"
test_mode="True"size_window_x="1024"
size_window_y="768"
OverrideRenderSettings="True"
RenderFullScreen="False"

RenderLocalPlayerPosition="False"

enable_quickie_debug_menu="True"
enable_dev_only_debug_tiwwchnt="True"
enable_debug_jump_menu="True"
test_jumps_enabled="True"



INSTRUCTIONS:

• Save your old deadrising2.exe file
  
• download this deadrising2.exe file.
  
• move the new deadrising2.exe file to your dead rising 2 folder
  
• create a text document by right clicking on your desktop. In the context menu that pops up, click new >> text document
  
• Change the name to user.ini make sure it is actually a ini file not a text file. A text file will not work. Often an extension is hidden. If needed see: Vista: Show or Unhide File Extensions also How To UnHide File Extensions in XP or VISTA
  
• The new ini file will look like a text file with a small blue or orange sockett on it.
  
  
  
  
• Open the ini file. Copy and paste this into the ini file:
  
  enable_dev_features="True"
test_mode="True"size_window_x="1024"
size_window_y="768"
OverrideRenderSettings="True"
RenderFullScreen="False"

RenderLocalPlayerPosition="False"

enable_quickie_debug_menu="True"
enable_dev_only_debug_tiwwchnt="True"
enable_debug_jump_menu="True"
test_jumps_enabled="True"


  
  
• Move the ini file to your dead rising 2 folder
  
• start the game windowed
  
  

Jan 30, 2011 11:43:42 GMT -6 anno1404 said:

modifying the deadrising.exe file replacing a 1 with a zero, then adding a user.ini text file to your deadrising 2 folder works just as well.

Here is the downloadable deadrising.exe file with the changes.



Here is my user.ini file:

enable_dev_features="True"
test_mode="True"size_window_x="1024"
size_window_y="768"
OverrideRenderSettings="True"
RenderFullScreen="False"

RenderLocalPlayerPosition="False"

enable_quickie_debug_menu="True"
enable_dev_only_debug_tiwwchnt="True"
enable_debug_jump_menu="True"
test_jumps_enabled="True"



INSTRUCTIONS:

• Save your old deadrising2.exe file
  
• download this deadrising2.exe file.
  
• move the new deadrising2.exe file to your dead rising 2 folder
  
• create a text document by right clicking on your desktop. In the context menu that pops up, click new >> text document
  
• Change the name to user.ini make sure it is actually a ini file not a text file. A text file will not work. Often an extension is hidden. If needed see: Vista: Show or Unhide File Extensions also How To UnHide File Extensions in XP or VISTA
  
• The new ini file will look like a text file with a small blue or orange sockett on it.
  
  
  
  
• Open the ini file. Copy and paste this into the ini file:
  
  enable_dev_features="True"
test_mode="True"size_window_x="1024"
size_window_y="768"
OverrideRenderSettings="True"
RenderFullScreen="False"

RenderLocalPlayerPosition="False"

enable_quickie_debug_menu="True"
enable_dev_only_debug_tiwwchnt="True"
enable_debug_jump_menu="True"
test_jumps_enabled="True"


  
  
• Move the ini file to your dead rising 2 folder
  
• start the game windowed
  
  

Hey Anno can you make this For OTR?

[anno1404]

no idea how, looking for solution.