diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6974fd46c9..c68e7b0f58 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
     Bug #5502: Dead zone for analogue stick movement is too small
     Bug #5507: Sound volume is not clamped on ingame settings update
     Bug #5531: Actors flee using current rotation by axis x
+    Bug #5539: Window resize breaks when going from a lower resolution to full screen resolution
     Bug #5548: Certain exhausted topics can be highlighted again even though there's no new dialogue
     Feature #390: 3rd person look "over the shoulder"
     Feature #2386: Distant Statics in the form of Object Paging
diff --git a/components/sdlutil/sdlvideowrapper.cpp b/components/sdlutil/sdlvideowrapper.cpp
index c2963be861..57d1e2985c 100644
--- a/components/sdlutil/sdlvideowrapper.cpp
+++ b/components/sdlutil/sdlvideowrapper.cpp
@@ -88,7 +88,38 @@ namespace SDLUtil
         {
             SDL_SetWindowSize(mWindow, width, height);
             SDL_SetWindowBordered(mWindow, windowBorder ? SDL_TRUE : SDL_FALSE);
+
+            centerWindow();
         }
     }
 
+    void VideoWrapper::centerWindow()
+    {
+        // Resize breaks the sdl window in some cases; see issue: #5539
+        SDL_Rect rect{};
+        int x = 0;
+        int y = 0;
+        int w = 0;
+        int h = 0;
+        auto index = SDL_GetWindowDisplayIndex(mWindow);
+        bool reposition = false;
+        SDL_GetDisplayBounds(index, &rect);
+        SDL_GetWindowSize(mWindow, &w, &h);
+
+        x = rect.x;
+        y = rect.y;
+
+        // Center dimensions that do not fill the screen
+        if (w < rect.w)
+        {
+            x = rect.x + rect.w / 2 - w / 2;
+        }
+        if (h < rect.h)
+        {
+            y = rect.y + rect.h / 2 - h / 2;
+        }
+
+        SDL_SetWindowPosition(mWindow, x, y);
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/components/sdlutil/sdlvideowrapper.hpp b/components/sdlutil/sdlvideowrapper.hpp
index 77f0b80393..3866c3ec31 100644
--- a/components/sdlutil/sdlvideowrapper.hpp
+++ b/components/sdlutil/sdlvideowrapper.hpp
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ namespace SDLUtil
 
         void setVideoMode(int width, int height, bool fullscreen, bool windowBorder);
 
+        void centerWindow();
+
     private:
         SDL_Window* mWindow;
         osg::ref_ptr<osgViewer::Viewer> mViewer;