Reinstalling Skyrim but new issues

[Aki K]

Hello.

 

Trying to install skyrim on my new machine. It's my most powerful computer I've had yet because I can finally afford a proper gaming PC. But I've encountered some strange issues.

 

There are ZERO mods installed. Right now it is just the game (LE version as is my preference). My issues are:

 

1. Inability to get the game to take up the entire screen in windowed mode. It takes up most of the screen but there's still a thin border. This is despite running BethINI and setting it to the screen resolution.

 

2. If I set the game to fullscreen, the video freezes at startup (but the audio continues to play as normal).

 

3. My computer won't stop bitching about MS Gameoverlat/MS Gamebar every time I start the game. (This is true for most of my games).

 

 

 

Please pardon spelling errors. New keyboard.

Edited May 17 by Aki K

[Andy14]

16 minutes ago, Aki K said:

Hello.

 

Trying to install skyrim on my new machine. It's my most powerful computer I've had yet because I can finally afford a proper gaming PC. But I've encountered some strange issues.

 

There are ZERO mods installed. Right now it is just the game (LE version as is my preference). My issues are:

 

1. Inability to get the game to take up the entire screen in windowed mode. It takes up most of the screen but there's still a thin border. This is despite running BethINI and setting it to the screen resolution.

 

2. If I set the game to fullscreen, the video freezes at startup (but the audio continues to play as normal).

 

3. My computer won't stop bitching about MS Gameoverlat/MS Gamebar every time I start the game. (This is true for most of my games).

 

 

 

Please pardon spelling errors. New keyboard.

To display windowed programs in full screen, I use the program linked below.

I use it for The Sims 3 because otherwise, with my AMD graphics card, the full screen is far too dark and overly saturated.

 

But I'm sure there's another way to solve this problem.

I hope Steam/Skyrim isn't installed in C:/Program Files.

Link

[Aki K]

On 5/17/2026 at 1:44 PM, Andy14 said:

To display windowed programs in full screen, I use the program linked below.

I use it for The Sims 3 because otherwise, with my AMD graphics card, the full screen is far too dark and overly saturated.

 

But I'm sure there's another way to solve this problem.

I hope Steam/Skyrim isn't installed in C:/Program Files.

Link

Nope. I made sure not to install in program files.

 

In my case full screen causes the video to freeze (which is weird). And I could swear there was a way to have a windowed version be full screen just by using the right ini settings. I just can't recall.

[Kastagir]

In LE, you can force windowed mode fullscreen without any additional programs.

SkyrimPrefs.ini:

[Display]
bFull Screen=0
iSize H=1080 (set this to your native resolution height)
iSize W=1920 (set this to your native resolution width)

enblocal.ini:

[WINDOW]
ForceBorderless=true
ForceBorderlessFullscreen=true

[Kastagir]

If you're still getting a border or if you're trying to use a resolution (iSize) that doesn't match your native resolution you can use something like Simple Runtime Window Editor to force any application to take up the full screen (or force it into a window of any size, any position on the screen, etc.):  https://github.com/dtgDTGdtg/SRWE

 

On 5/17/2026 at 10:25 AM, Aki K said:

3. My computer won't stop bitching about MS Gameoverlat/MS Gamebar every time I start the game. (This is true for most of my games).

Why don't you just disable the game bar?  Windows-I for settings, Gaming, and toggle the Game Bar off.

Edited May 30 by Kastagir

[Aki K]

19 hours ago, Kastagir said:

If you're still getting a border or if you're trying to use a resolution (iSize) that doesn't match your native resolution you can use something like Simple Runtime Window Editor to force any application to take up the full screen (or force it into a window of any size, any position on the screen, etc.):  https://github.com/dtgDTGdtg/SRWE

 

Why don't you just disable the game bar?  Windows-I for settings, Gaming, and toggle the Game Bar off.

It is off. The error still comes up.

 

Fixed the border issue. The ini edits weren't working (but helped a lot). Installing onetweak fixed the rest.