Borderless Gaming

Borderless Gaming

AndrewMD5 · July 23, 2015 · Utilities, Software, 2D, 3D

Buy Borderless Gaming from Steam at $6.99 — the cheapest of 2 stores we compare.

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Very Positive80% · 4,702594playing now
Best price
$6.99
lowest tracked $0.79
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Where to buy Borderless Gaming — official stores

Steam
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Standard Edition · Steam
$6.99
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Cheapest Borderless Gaming keys — keyshops

Keyshops are third-party marketplaces — keys are resold and can be region-locked or a different edition. Check the listing's region & edition before buying.

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CJS CD Keys
Standard Edition · Steam
$16.86
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Borderless Gaming price by region

Borderless Gaming costs £5.89 in the United Kingdom, €6.89 in Europe (EUR), $6.99 in the United States, $6.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$8.99 in Canada, A$10.25 in Australia, NZ$10.49 in New Zealand, R$23.50 in Brazil and zł31.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Borderless Gaming offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £5.89 £5.89 £12.77 2
Europe (EUR) €6.89 €6.89 — 1
United Statesyour region $6.99 $6.99 $16.86 2
Georgia (USD) $6.99 $6.99 — 1
Canada CA$8.99 CA$8.99 — 1
Australia A$10.25 A$10.25 — 1
New Zealand NZ$10.49 NZ$10.49 — 1
Brazil R$23.50 R$23.50 — 1
Poland zł31.99 zł31.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Borderless Gaming

✦ AI summary

Borderless Gaming is a Swiss Army knife utility that forces any game into borderless fullscreen, adds GPU effects and AI upscaling through its BGFX pipeline, and fixes broken older titles through BGProxy's graphics interception. Whether you're reviving early 2000s classics, squeezing visual fidelity from aging engines, or just wanting smoother alt-tabbing and multi-monitor flexibility, it handles the messy compatibility work so you don't have to.

Borderless fullscreen for every game. GPU effects and upscaling. Old games that actually work.

Borderless Gaming has three tools that all work together: borderless fullscreen, BGFX for visual effects, and BGProxy for games that refuse to cooperate.

Borderless fullscreen

Force any game into borderless fullscreen. Alt-tab without crashes, hide the taskbar, lock the cursor to the game window, mute games in the background, position a game at any size on any monitor. Set up a profile once and it applies automatically every time you launch.

BGFX — effects and upscaling

BGFX captures your game and runs it through a GPU effect pipeline. 390+ effects — FSR, neural network upscalers, CRT scanlines, VHS, sharpening, anti-aliasing, LUT color grading. Stack as many as you want, each one feeds into the next.On Steam Deck, BGFX runs natively in Game Mode. Full gamepad navigation, per-game presets, and an in-game overlay to tweak everything while you play. No desktop mode required.On Windows, the same effect library runs through a Vulkan backend alongside D3D11 capture.

BGProxy — fix old and broken games

BGProxy intercepts a game's graphics pipeline and makes it work properly on a modern PC. OpenGL, DirectX 8 through 12 — from early 2000s classics to modern titles that just won't cooperate.Fullscreen-only games become real, resizable windows. The game re-renders to fit — drag the border, maximize, go ultra-wide, and the resolution follows. Alt-tabbing no longer pauses the game, and input is blocked in the background so you can multitask. BGProxy also upgrades how the game talks to your hardware. DirectX games get FLIP model presentation for lower input latency and smoother frame pacing. OpenGL games are re-rendered through a DirectX 12 pipeline and their GL contexts are upgraded to the highest compatibility profile your driver supports, so the driver can apply optimizations that the original game never asked for. Broken timer code that causes micro-stutter is intercepted and fixed automatically — old 1–16ms sleep timers become sub-millisecond precision. Games that won't launch because they don't recognize your GPU can be spoofed into thinking you have a different graphics card.Pair it with BGFX to upscale and apply effects on top.

Borderless Gaming — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

DLC & expansions

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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Borderless Gaming is praised for effectively removing window borders and providing a useful quality-of-life utility, but players report significant frustration with reliability issues including random crashes, features resetting without permission, and difficulty detecting games in the list. The app's bloated updates and comparison to superior free alternatives like Lossless Scaling make players skeptical of its value, with most suggesting it's only worth trying if you already own it or can get it heavily discounted.

Not recommended Sep 2, 2026
Very useful app, does what it says on the tin - mostly. Randomly on updates the "run on windows start-up" gets toggles back on without my consent. That to me is malware, the app is running without my permission and I don't like that.
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 5, 2026
i would buy this at $0.10 you could just use lossless scaling and it makes your game borderless aswell as giving you a few more frames even if they are fake ones, not worth it for a few old games
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 6, 2026
Used to be a really simple and nice quality of life add on that bloated into something it didn't need to be. Almost malware at this point.
Not recommended Sep 6, 2026
why does it randomly stop working?
Not recommended Sep 4, 2026
Decided to close the app after 45 mins because I couldn't get it to work on an older game due to it only showing on the list when said game was focused and would hide whenever ALT + Tabbing. I tried fiddling with the UI (and some internet digging) to see if there was a way to ADD games to the list without them being open, can't do that. Pretty much a paper weight.
Recommended Sep 2, 2026
Best non-game software i've owned on this platform.

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