How to play Black Mirror in windowed mode (using dxwnd)

The following guide is confirmed to work with the Steam version of the game in the following languages:

- English
- German
- Russian
- Italian
- Spanish
- French
- Polish

It seems to **not** work with the Czech Steam version as the game loads into a black screen for unknown reasons.

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- Download "dxwnd" from [Sourceforge](http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/) unpack it and start dxwnd.exe

- Download the corresponding dxwnd configuration file from [this leaderboard's resources tab](https://www.speedrun.com/black_mirror/resources/vfw6j)

- Open dxwnd. Right-click on the white space in dxwnd and select "Import...". Then select the .dxw file you just downloaded. Make sure "Path:" links to the agds.exe in whatever folder the game is installed in (the path should look something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Black Mirror\agds.exe). 

- The game's native resolution in 800x600 which is why that's the window size set at the bottom. You can set the resolution to anything else as long as the aspect ratio is 4:3, e.g., 1280x960; however, this can lead to slight visual artifacts. Also you cannot move the window once it is up, which is what the X and Y field to the left of the resolution boxes are for. For example, changing the "50, 50" values to "0, 0" moves the window to the top-left corner of the monitor.

- Now start the game through dxwnd or through Steam. The game should now open in a window.

P.S. If the game still starts in fullscreen, the universal fix is to launch dxwnd as admin.

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For reference, here is a picture of the first tab of dxwnd:

![](/static/blob/ynl96kmn.png)

Also for reference, here are the complete dxwnd settings for this game, in case something does not work and you want to go through the settings to check everything (for this, right-click on the image > "Open image in new tab" to properly see everything)

![](/static/blob/7z33x2lz.png)

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