James Turner (Turnerj) • 1/21/2022

Fixing my BF1942 woes with Win32 APIs

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The article details a programmer's journey to fix Battlefield 1942 on Windows 10, which crashed in fullscreen and had a non-movable window. After trying unofficial patches, they decided to write a custom launcher using Win32 APIs via .NET to remove the window border and center it, providing a technical solution to a legacy gaming problem.

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