You can run games in higher resolutions with the use of SRWE and Windowed Borderless Gaming tools. How to force higher resolutions:
- Change your Desktop resolution to your maximum you can down-sample from (the same applies if you have a second monitor)
- Run the game in Window Mode
- Find what you want to screenshot first (align,composition etc)
- ALT-TAB to Desktop
- Open SRWE and Select running Application. Choose your game
- Change a Width & a height in the Window position and size (for example Width=5120 & Height=2880)
- Take a screenshot
- Once finished taking a screenshot change back the resolution in SRWE so the window is visible in your screen
- Change your Desktop resolution to your maximum you can down-sample from (the same applies if you have a second monitor)
- Run the game in Window Mode
- Find what you want to screenshot first (align,composition etc)
- ALT-TAB to Desktop
- Open WBG ,right click on the program in the task bar and select "Add Window F3"
- ALT-TAB back to the game and press F3 (This may take some tries until the program initialize the game)
- Once the game is boardless ALT-TAB again ,right click on the program in the task bar and select "Open game settings"
- Change the resolution (for example Width=5120 & Height=2880) and hit apply
- Take a screenshot
- Once finished taking a screenshot change back the resolution in WBG so the window is visible in your screen
GAMES THAT SUPPORT HOTSAMPLING
- Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden (reduces quallity)
- AirMech
- Alan Wake
- Alice VR
- Always Sometimes Monsters
- Aragami
- ARMA II
- ARMA II: Combined Operations
- ARMA II: Operation Arrowhead
- Assassin's Creed
- Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
- Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
- Banished (non-steam version)
- Battlefield 3
- Beat Hazard
- Binary Domain
- Blur
- Brink
- Brutal Legend
- Call of Duty: World at War
- Call of Juarez
- Caster
- Castle of Illusion
- Ceville
- Cloudbuilt
- Company of Heroes
- Containment: The Zombie Puzzler
- Costume Quest
- Crysis
- Crysis Warhead
- Dark Blood Online
- Dark Souls II
- Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition
- Darksiders II
- DayZ MOD
- Dead Pixels
- Dead Rising 3
- Dead Space 2
- DeathSpank
- Democracy 3
- Deponia
- Deponia: The Complete Journey
- Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
- Deus Ex: Human revolution
- Diamond Dan
- Divinity II: Developer's Cut
- Don't Starve!
- Doom (2016)
- Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Driver San Francisco
- Droplitz
- Duke Nukem Forever
- Dwarfs - F2P
- Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
- Ever Quest 2
- Fable III
- Fallout
- Fallout 3
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Far Cry 2
- Far Cry 4
- Fez
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Firewatch
- Flame In The Flood
- Flight of the Icarus
- Furi
- Future Wars
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
- Guns of Icarus Online
- Hard Reset (turn off AA)
- Hitman Absolution
- Icey
- I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Steam version)
- Infestation: Survivor Stories
- Jade Empire: Special Edition
- Just Cause 3
- Killing Floor
- Kung Fu Strike - The Warrior's Rise
- League of Legends
- LightFish
- LIMBO
- Mabinogi
- Madballs in Babo:Invasion
- Mafia II
- Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers
- Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012
- Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013
- Magicka
- Maize
- Mark of the Ninja
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
- Minecraft
- Mount & Blade: Warband
- NBA 2K13
- Nexuiz
- Obduction
- Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
- Omerta - City of Gangsters
- OMG Zombies!
- Orcs Must Die 2
- Paragon
- Payday 2
- PAYDAY: The Heist
- Plain Sight
- PlanetSide2
- Planet Coaster
- Pound of Ground
- Prison Architect
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2013
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2015
- Project Temporality
- Project Zomboid
- Psychonauts
- Quern - Undying Thoughts
- RAGE
- Rayman Legends
- Redemption
- Red Faction Guerrilla
- Red Faction: Armageddon
- Refunktion
- Renegade Ops
- Resident Evil 3: Nemesis / Biohazard 3: Last Escape
- Resident Evil 4 / Biohazard 4
- Resident Evil 5
- Resident Evil 6 / Biohazard 6
- Resident Evil Revelations / Biohazard Revelations UE
- Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
- Ridge Racer Unbound
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Saints Row
- Saints Row: the Third
- Samorost
- Shadow Warrior 2
- Shank 1
- Sid Meier's Civilization V
- Signal From Tölva
- SimCity
- Skyrim (refer to this post)
- Slam Bolt Scrappers
- Sleeping Dogs
- Sniper Elite V2
- Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army
- South Park: The Stick of Truth
- Space Pirates and Zombies
- Speedball 2 HD
- Spelunky
- Spintires
- Spore
- Spore Galactic Adventures
- Starbound
- Starlight Inception
- State of Decay
- Street Fighter X Tekken
- Strike Suit Zero
- Subnautica
- Super Chain Crusher Horizon
- Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
- Take On Mars
- Talisman: Digital Edition
- theHunter: Call of the Wild
- The 7th Guest (Steam)
- The Darkness II
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- The Evil Within
- The Flame in the Flood
- The King Of Fighters XIII
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
- The ship
- The Sims 3
- The Turing Test
- The Walking Dead
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition (instructions here)
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
- The Wolf Among Us
- This War Of Mine
- Titan Quest
- Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
- Tomb Raider
- Tomb Raider II
- Torchlight
- Total War: ROME II
- Toy Soldiers
- Toy Soldiers: Complete
- Trials Evolution Gold Edition
- Tropico 4
- Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta
- Valhalla Hills
- Vikings: Wolves of Midgard
- War of the Roses
- Warcraft 3
- Warframe
- WarZ
- Wolfenstein The New Order
- Wolfenstein The Old Blood
- Zombi