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Xbox Gamepass and full screen thing

Anonymous
2020-07-24T15:52:45+00:00

TL;DR:

I played Ori and the Blind Forest in Xbox's App with Gamepass, and it has been the most horrible experience I've ever had with games in Windows, not because of the game (IT'S GORGEOUS AND SO SO SO GOOD). But I'd rather get my pc with multiple viruses than having to play it again in Microsoft's service (I won't get viruses, I just bought it on Steam).

Facts:

  • I have Windows 10 1909 installed, and a 21:9 screen, but it doesn't really matters, because it has nothing to do with aspect ratio as I will explain later. Neither has to do with hardware since I'm not the only one who's having bad moments and it has nothing to do with fps or performance in general.
  • I have all my drivers up to date.
  • I paid for this Xbox Gamepass subscription.

What happened you'd ask?

Well, I started playing with only keyboard, not with keyboard + mouse, neither with a controller.

I got bash after +30% of completing the game, and I was after that somewhat forced to play with mouse in order to control the redirection of the jump.

However, using the mouse, or controller, WAS A HELL. It was dued to games not being in TRUE FULLSCREEN, but a windowed mode. It is not a matter of performance, graphics or anything, but the window making my Windows bar and the title bar appearing whenever I got closer to the top or left border (yeah, I have windows bar in the left border with my 21:9 screen, but hidden till I get my mouse over the border, and yes I tried not hiding it and didn't make any change.)

I have installed Borderless Gaming, a program that has been working flawlessly for me, for other titles which didn't support true full screen mode from other platforms, BUT, it didn't work at all. (How intrusive is that Xbox title bar thingy? lol)

Then after trying EVERYTHING described in forums I gave up. I bought It on Steam and tried to save my save into Steam and... BUM not even the same saves file extensions. I went to AppData > Local > microsoft.ori... and into wgs folder (I don't remember where wgs folder was exactly) and then you could find some save files with long numbers. Long story short: They are not even the same extension files, so I'll start playing the game in a harder difficulty in the following days. (At least I'm getting that out of all of this directly into my Steam achievements).

I'll never ever buy a game from Xbox Store again.

Fun fact: This is not a new bug or fail: This is VERY old, like + a year, just check the forums.

P.S.: Sorry for my bad english, I'm a spaniard.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-09-24T23:12:20+00:00

    I have a similar problem, but it's that either game pass or MSFS2020 causes other games (like 7 days to die via steam) to be unable to re-center the mouse cursor on screen. This is how mouse-based first-person games work, they place the mouse cursor at the center of the screen each frame so that you never run out of room.

    I'm using a 4 monitor setup with the game in one monitor, and any time the mouse cursor wanders off the edge of the game window/monitor I end up clicking on and/or dragging random things on another monitor. Start shortcuts, move files or folders, open popup menus and click random things on them. Also those things are happening instead ofwhat I was trying to do in the game, like defend myself from something that was attacking me or turn to run away.

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