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[atomicwinter]

I am just curious as to how many of you use windowed mode and why? Personally I think the dwarfs look cooler, and I like to be able to surf the internet, and do other things while I am playing.

[Itnetlolor]

Windowed makes multi-tasking easier.

I switch to fullscreen for a seamless map dumping for DFMA. My setup is odd like that.

[Jack_Bread]

Fullscreen makes the tiles look all stretched, which makes it look horrible.

[Foa]

Within windowed mode, you can enlarge the window ( via that minimize/maximize button in the top right corner ) you can view more of the map at one time, but the graphics stay the same size.

[bombcar]

I use windowed mode; it works great, and I haven't found a good 32x32 tileset to use on my 30" in full screen.

[nitnatsnoc]

With windowed mode and running d16 I can stretch DF across both my 24" monitors for 3360x1080 glory!

[G-Flex]

I am just curious as to how many of you use windowed mode and why? Personally I think the dwarfs look cooler, and I like to be able to surf the internet, and do other things while I am playing.

Fullscreen makes the tiles look all stretched, which makes it look horrible.

In response to both of these: You can just change the tileset yourself. If you like one tileset over another, or one winds up being stretched, or whatever, you can just change it. Tilesets aren't linked to windowed/fullscreen modes in any particular way except for maybe the default options.

[SkyRender]

I have a dual-monitor setup, so windowed mode is basically my only feasible option if I don't want my small monitor going blank.  Besides, I can keep the Wiki open on said small monitor in case I need to look something up real quick.

[Untelligent]

Windowed. Most of the time spent in my fort is waiting for my dwarves to finish building whatever, so I tend to do other stuff while I wait, which is rather difficult in fullscreen.

[Amalgam]

It seems kind of difficult to get character sets to work right in fullscreen. I hate messing around with those things anyway though, so I've resigned to using the vanilla windowed-mode character set which is square enough for me. Still not perfectly square, but not horribly distorted either.

[Charmander]

Windowed takes up half of my screen.

When world-genning, the other half can be used for the internet without thinking that DF's crashed when it's just unresponsive.