Reset your WoW settings through the Battle.net App: Options > Game Settings > Reset In-Game Options button under World of Warcraft. Overlay incompatibilities can cause black screens and crashes. Your overlay programs may need to be updated or disabled to resolve the issue. If your game is using DirectX 12, try switching to DirectX 11. Only borderless fullscreen and windowed (with borders). Escape > System > Graphics > Display Mode: "Fullscreen (Windowed)" -- is the borderless option. Unfortunately, reducing the resolution seems to just stretch the image to fit the screen. I don't know of a way within the in-game options to disable the window borders unfortunately. Feb 14, 2009 · Select C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe or where ever your Wow.exe file is. Highlight Wow.exe. Select "Windows 2000". Then go to the Graphics tab. Uncheck "Allow window manager to control the windows" and "Allow window manager to decorate the windows". Now go to the Audio tab. Check both ALSA and OSS. That black screen is usually a sign that settings are changing on the monitor. Could be refresh rate, bit depth, hdr mode, gsync turning on/off, etc etc. I had this issue until I disabled G-Sync. I’ve encountered a new behavior when I Alt+Tab while playing WoW and ONLY in WoW. Whenever I Alt+Tab my screen goes black for a second as it would Mar 26, 2022 · Bossbabe-thunderhorn March 2, 2022, 3:50am 1. Never have had this issue before while playing in window mode (full screen) but when I go to a different screen, my game will basically get ‘stuck’ on a button on my action bar. Basically my game will only let me activate that button with my mouse then. Only resetting the game seems to fix it. Oct 16, 2012 · Macro for Wow: Toggle full screen and windowed mode for Other. Works in World of Warcraft patch 5.4 Siege of Orgrimmar, Mists of Pandaria. Posted on: 10-16-2012 - Updated on: 10-16-2012 - viewed 10302 times Starting a Full Screen Windowed game. Download Fullscreenizer from here. Extract and run fullscreenizer. Run your game in a window. If your game runs in a regular window or you can run it in a window, go to Step 4. If your game runs in fullscreen mode, try going to the game settings and then try changing the window type to windowed mode. after messing around with some settings on world of warcraft(the primary game i'm having this issue with), it seems swapping to dx11 completely fixed my issues while that game is running, however, i just noticed the flicker is also happening during the loadscreens in league of legends. i play league on borderless and i haven't had any issues Common Problems. If you encounter a black screen at startup or during gameplay, follow the steps below to solve the problem: Reset your WoW settings through the Blizzard Battle.net App: Options > Game Settings > Reset In-Game Options button under World of Warcraft. Overlay incompatibilities can cause black screens and crashes. Nov 26, 2020 · So I've found myself constantly moving my mouse to another monitor while playing WoW due to the forced Windowed mode. This sucks as sometimes Ill click and not realize my mouse is on another monitor which will then bring me out of WoW Is there anyway to lock your mouse to WoW so I don't have this happening 7gmE.