Some games run in fullscreen borderless window mode

[fenderjaguar]

You wouldn't know this ordinarily, but some games are clearly running in fullscreen borderless window mode only, since I can't get g-sync to activate. One example is "The long dark".

Could anyone offer me a solution? I'd ask somewhere else, but people would just say it was already running fullscreen, as it appears to be, but because most don't have g-sync and therefore wouldn't understand what I'm talking about here.

[Black Octagon]

Wouldn't this mean that the same games don't support SLI/Crossfire?

[Chief Blur Buster]

There should be a special graphics driver layer that forces a single app to full screen mode, so we can G-SYNC-ize any borderless windowed Direct3D application. I imagine this is technically possible...

[Joolsyz]

The Evil Within is another example, says it's in fullscreen when infact it's running in borderless mode.

[fenderjaguar]

Another point is that fullscreen borderless is becoming more popular with gamers. People like it because they can alt tab to desktop better and they claim it 'runs better' (probably since it overlay desktop composition type vsync over the top of the effectively windowed game)