Cannot Change Build to Windowed Mode

I am trying to get my game build to run in windowed mode, but none of the settings seem to be affecting the build. I used unity a couple years ago and recall that when a new build was created, you could run the build and it would let you pick the screen resolution, and choose whether it was fullscreen. That window is not popping up for me either. Any suggestions?

I have tried changing the player settings to “Windowed” and that also has had no effect.

Your computer saves your resolution settings to the registry, so even if you change the default settings, it will still use the saved settings if they’re valid.

In the Resolution and Presentation settings, there is a “Display Resolution Dialog” option that you probably have set to “Hidden by default”. With that option, you have to hold [ctrl] while you open the game to get the resolution options window. If you would like the window to always appear, you can change the “Display Resolution Dialog” setting to “Enabled”. If you change your resolution or fullscreen mode in that dialog when you run the game, it will save your new values for next time.

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Yep it saves your settings the last time you ran the build. I believe the save location is with the rest of your PlayerPrefs. So I’d just head there and wipe them all out, then relaunch your game and I’d expect it to use your new default resolution settings.