Play Dead Rising 3 in Windows mode easily

[solidcal]

Hey all. Now I know some people would like to play DR3 in windowed mode without having to press Alt + Enter. I have found a way and it is simple.

1. Navigate to your "My Documents" folder and find the "My Games" folder.

2. Open that folder and then open the Dead Rising 3 on inside.

3. Inside you should see a rendersettings.ini file. Open that with a txt editor.

4. Find the code line that says "FullScreen = True" and change "True" to "False" and then save.

5. There you go when you start up DR3 it will be in a boxed window that you can resize to as small as you want.

6. Have fun!

Also do note that for some reason the game undo's this change. So you'll have to set it back again each time before you start the game.

[Wizard]

That is one way you can do it, but since I have yet to see the game close without crashing, it doesn't seem to stay "False", it always switches back to True after every boot-up, hopefully not everyone has this issue.

I've just gotten use to booting the game up, waiting a second, hitting ALT+Enter and putting it into windowed, than maximizing the games window, I have to do this because the silly game doesn't properly support my resolution, but it's a temp work-around till capcom fixs these silly problems.

[bugbait]

I made a batch file that can switch out the rendersettings.ini file with one that has FullScreen=false and then launch the game. It saves you trouble if the file keeps reverting like mine does.
If you want to use it, here's how:
— Start by making a copy of rendersettings.ini and naming it "rendersettings_windowed.ini". Make sure this copy stays in the same folder as the original and has fullscreen set to false.
— Go to your Dead Rising 3 folder (the one with your dead rising 3 exe) and make a new batch file.
— Use this text in your batch file (using your own game's path and own rendersettings path in the areas where I specified).

CD /d "(path to your rendersettings.ini folder)"
copy "rendersettings_windowed.ini" "rendersettings_windowed_temp.ini"
del "rendersettings.ini"
ren "rendersettings_windowed.ini" "rendersettings.ini"
ren "rendersettings_windowed_temp.ini" "rendersettings_windowed.ini"
CD /d "(path to your DR3 folder)"
start deadrising3.exe


— Name the batch file something like "Launch Dead Rising 3.bat" and run it as admin any time you want to start the game.

Hope this helps someone.