How to Make Minecraft Fullscreen

Minecraft doesn’t rely on incredible graphics to be entertaining. It’s the gameplay that attracts us to it. In this article, we will go through a few possible solutions that will allow you to turn Minecraft full screen. Additionally, if you’re interested in similar articles, we’ve made a guide on how you can make your FPS display in-game. 

Why does Minecraft change to windowed mode?

If you use Alt + Tab, you can easily get out of the game and check the desktop. The application will still be running, and you can access it via the taskbar. However, when you get back to it, Minecraft might open in windowed mode. 

Minecraft is a relaxing game, and a lot of players like to have some other music in the background. You might want to google a video, recipe, or just other stuff, which will force you to get out of the game from time to time. Unfortunately, this might also lead to issues.

Besides Alt Tabbing, there might be some other reasons why it would make Minecraft go into windowed mode. Whatever the case might be, this article will teach you how to make Minecraft go into Fullscreen mode.

Minecraft Fullscreen Methods

By alt-tabbing and turning full screen on and off, you can seriously affect your computer and how the game is running. It can reduce the game speed, lead to crashes, and put strain on your graphics card. Given that Minecraft will change its settings upon alt-tabbing, perhaps it’s better to avoid using this feature too much.

Turning on the fullscreen feature within Minecraft

Naturally, you can always set full screen within the game. There are two ways to do it.

First, you can turn on the full screen feature by pressing F11 while in the game. This is a shortcut that will quickly fix the problem without going into the video settings. Alternatively, you can go to settings and change it there.

Here is a step-by-step process that would allow you to turn Minecraft full screen via menu settings:

1. As soon as you get into the game, make your way to the ‘Options’ tab
2. Go to ‘Video Settings’
3. Here you can find the full screen slider. Turn this to your desired resolution.
4. Once you’ve set your desired resolution, navigate to the bottom and find the ‘Fullscreen’ option.
5. Set that to ‘On’ and your game should be set to fullscreen mode.

Turning Minecraft fullscreen through Steam

Minecraft is not a Steam game, although you can buy its modes via Steam. However, a lot of players decide to add it to Steam by using the function Add a Non-Steam Game. This allows them to have all their favorite titles in one place.

If you also use Steam to run Minecraft, you will have an additional option of changing the screen mode. Here is how you can do this through Steam:

1. Open up Steam
2. Find the ‘Library’ tab and click on it
3. Minecraft will be to the left. Click on it and then go to the Properties tab
4. Here, you will find the ‘General’ tab, which is also the default tab
5. You should find ‘Set Launch Options’ and click on it
6. A pop-up box will appear. Go ahead and type –fullscreen into the box

This is a surefire solution for changing the screen from windowed mode to full screen mode. It is especially great if you’re, for whatever reason, unable to open the Settings tab within the game.

Alt + Enter Method

Alt + Enter is a keyboard shortcut that can easily make Minecraft go to fullscreen mode. The shortcut is used when Minecraft is in window mode. You can use it instantly, and it will make all the difference.

Now you know how to set Minecraft to Full screen mode in Minecraft. We hope you’ve enjoyed our article and even learned something new about Minecraft. We have other articles about Minecraft like how to put an image onto a Minecraft skin, or the best 3 Minecraft Skin editors that we’d urge you to visit if you’re into the multiplayer aspect of Minecraft.