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I have "windowed" problems with GTA (and LA Noire now I think about it) but in that case it does reset properly after going into settings.

Is this AC Syndicate?
Are you running it at your screen's normal resolution? If so you could try running it in borderless windowed mode.
Or you could venture into the INI files.



Post Ark EDIT:

Now that was a more productive session with no snakes (and I read up and discovered that you should gorge on Stimberries to counteract the snake poison. Remember that for later.)
Didn't travel very far this time and instead just stocked up on supplies and crafted lots of spare stuff for when I respawn. Even made a slingshot to kill the annoying Compys from a safe(ish) distance!
Got my first "You are encumbered" message!
And I unencumbered myself with storage boxes.



Hey! You stay away from my boxes, Mister Moschops!

I've now collected and stored so much that I'm scared of actually going anywhere.

Sometimes Alt-Tabbing in and out of the game can make the full screen work, but only sometimes. That's the first thing I try when GTA does it.
Google shows that you're not alone with that problem even though I've never experienced it. The only thing I get with that game on GFN is that it sometimes opens in 16:10 rather than 16:9 ratios.
I do enjoy AC Syndicate, once you get to London and it turns into a full open world game with character switching it's great fun. But you're right about the free running, the more recent games are much more forgiving than the older ones but it is still possible to fall.

Meanwhile in Guild Wars...

PIG MAGIC!!!



I was turned into an oinking porker after another frog vomitted in my face. Magic vomit, of course. All so that I could sniff out some truffles.
There was apparently an event going on nearby but I took too long working out how to turn back into my usual form. I thought I was gonna be stuck as a pig forever.

Also I noticed some new red icons on the map. I was obviously on the lookout for remnants but these icons were really small and when I hovered over them with the cursor it said Mentor and I think they were real players? Don't know what that was all about.

And then I died. I've moved away from that forest and into a place called Kessex to find some more quests but they're a little higher than my current level and I ended up fighting for my life a lot until...

Quite a lot of modern games overdo that sun glare effect. It gets particularly annoying in Witcher 3 and the worst example in Ark is when the sun is shining on your map and you can no longer see it even though it's right in front of your face.
I haven't checked but if there is a way to tone it down it'll probably be a bloom setting in the graphics options.

I'm not too troubled by dilophosaurs now, I can usually knock them out with just my fists. It's still the snakes that frighten me. At least with the other dangerous things like the Spinosaur of the Sarcosuchus you can see them in the distance and run away.

I got some standing torches from a supply drop.
I was gonna plant one next to my storage boxes so I can see where they are from a distance but I was unsure how long they last. Do they burn longer than camp fires?

Charlotte wrote:

tried and succeeded to kill a dilophosaur and while I was skinning it I was attacked by another one that I never saw.

Different species, but...