-window?

[ManDay]

F:\ArmA\arma.exe -window
Still it's fullscreen. What's wrong?

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In the options it says "Windowed" at the resolution-choice. The taskbar is visible in the game. It takes the full screen though.

[zwobot]

Maybe the wrong desktop shortcut? Have you entered the parameter in the (desktop) shortcuts target line? You have to append the -window parameter in the "target" line not the "execute in" or what it is called.

Another question regarding the -window parameter: do the -x and -y parameters actually work? No matter what I pass with the x and y parameters the window has always the same size.

[ManDay]

With regards to 1.): Yes. Definitly the right place I've put it.

Can't tell whether x and y works. Never tried it back when windowed-mode worked for me. But you can grab the upper-left corner of the window and change it's size by dragging it - if you don't like the resolution the window comes up with.

[zwobot]

Cool, the dragging works to alter the window's size. Thank you

Edit: I have just found out that there are two entries in the users arma.cfg which set the size of the window for windowed mode. They are called "winW" and "winH", the parameters "winX" and "winY" set the position of the window.

[fasad]

The -x -y command parameters do not work in ArmA, and it remembers the size of your last windowed session. It also allows the window to be resized to an arbitrary aspect ratio, while maintaining the games aspect ratio settings.

I consider this combination of behaviours to be a design bug - if you resize your game window using the side of the frame rather than the corner, your aspect ratio will be broken until you manually fix the configuration file.

[shinRaiden]

Due to the introduction of more complex aspect ratio controls, the -x -y commands were deprecated. You will need to create an alternate Arma user profile, and manually a new arma.cfg file in that alternate profile location, and target that profile via a modified shortcut. This is a functionality upgrade, not a defect.