Shadow Empire: How to Run Game in a Window

Shadow Empire doesn’t have an in-game configuration option to toggle between windowed and fullscreen mode, but you can run the game in the window with a simple change to a text file.

Changing to Windowed Mode

Follow these steps to change the game to run in a Window:

In your Steam Library, right-click Shadow Empire to open the context menu
Select Manage.. and then Browse Local Game Files
Scroll down in the Windows Explorer window that opens until you find windows.txt
Double-click this file to open it in Notepad.
It will say something like:
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dpi_by_windows=off
windowed_mode=off
windowed_mode_w=1280
windowed_mode_h=768
dpi_by_windows=off windowed_mode=off windowed_mode_w=1280 windowed_mode_h=768
```
dpi_by_windows=off
windowed_mode=off
windowed_mode_w=1280
windowed_mode_h=768
```
We are going to edit this to our preferences. For example, to have the game run in a 1080p window, we would change it to:
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dpi_by_windows=off
windowed_mode=on
windowed_mode_w=1920
windowed_mode_h=1080
dpi_by_windows=off windowed_mode=on windowed_mode_w=1920 windowed_mode_h=1080
```
dpi_by_windows=off
windowed_mode=on
windowed_mode_w=1920
windowed_mode_h=1080
```
Change the values to your preference and save and close the document.
Run the game! After you click through the launcher, the game should now be running in a window at the resolution that you’ve specified!

Changing back to fullscreen mode

To change back to running in fullscreen mode, simply edit windows.txt again and set windowed_mode to off.

e.g.

dpi_by_windows=off

windowed_mode=off

windowed_mode_w=1920

windowed_mode_h=1080

dpi_by_windows=off windowed_mode=off windowed_mode_w=1920 windowed_mode_h=1080

dpi_by_windows=off
windowed_mode=off
windowed_mode_w=1920
windowed_mode_h=1080

If windowed_mode is set to off, then the game will use your desktop resolution instead of the values in windows.txt

Things to be aware of in Windowed Mode

Here are a couple of pointers when running in Windowed Mode

The mouse is locked to the window by default. To change this, on the main game screen select Prefs -> GFX & Resolution and click the Mouse Lock button
Shadow Empire does not support Edge Scrolling when run in a window. To scroll the map you should use the keyboard arrow keys or use the in-game mini-map

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Shadow Empire: How to Run Game in a Window

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