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  1. Posts : 409
    Win 10 Home Premium 64 Bit
       #11

    Product FRED said:
    Lordbob75 said:
    archie123 said:
    and the problem with windowed mode is it affects your framerate , which is another pain in the rear
    Never seen that... What do you mean?

    ~Lordbob
    Me neither. Aero (if activated) is still running in the background, as well as Explorer itself, whether or not the application is running in fullscreen.
    it shouldnt be , aero should be disabled by the game launcher , if i were you id check the "disable desktop composition" box in your launcher for better fps. every game i currently play (bad company 2 , crysis , warhed , far cry 2) all disable aero on launch
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  2. Posts : 1,325
    Windows7 Ultimate 64bit
       #12

    archie123 said:
    Product FRED said:
    Lordbob75 said:
    Never seen that... What do you mean?

    ~Lordbob
    Me neither. Aero (if activated) is still running in the background, as well as Explorer itself, whether or not the application is running in fullscreen.
    it shouldnt be , aero should be disabled by the game launcher , if i were you id check the "disable desktop composition" box in your launcher for better fps. every game i currently play (bad company 2 , crysis , warhed , far cry 2) all disable aero on launch
    Some games disable Aero, some don't, but the end is the same... Some games loses some fps when running in windowed mode, that's the main point here.

    zzz2496
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  3. Posts : 409
    Win 10 Home Premium 64 Bit
       #13

    zzz2496 said:
    archie123 said:
    Product FRED said:

    Me neither. Aero (if activated) is still running in the background, as well as Explorer itself, whether or not the application is running in fullscreen.
    it shouldnt be , aero should be disabled by the game launcher , if i were you id check the "disable desktop composition" box in your launcher for better fps. every game i currently play (bad company 2 , crysis , warhed , far cry 2) all disable aero on launch
    Some games disable Aero, some don't, but the end is the same... Some games loses some fps when running in windowed mode, that's the main point here.

    zzz2496
    No my main point is ALL games suffer some loss of performance in windowed mode , your fps will suffer at points and disabling aero frees up ram , cpu cycles and gpu memory , so my main point there is if you disable aero your performance will increase. So if your game doesnt , you should force it too , unless your happy with your game performance.
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  4. Posts : 1,325
    Windows7 Ultimate 64bit
       #14

    archie123 said:
    zzz2496 said:
    archie123 said:

    it shouldnt be , aero should be disabled by the game launcher , if i were you id check the "disable desktop composition" box in your launcher for better fps. every game i currently play (bad company 2 , crysis , warhed , far cry 2) all disable aero on launch
    Some games disable Aero, some don't, but the end is the same... Some games loses some fps when running in windowed mode, that's the main point here.

    zzz2496
    No my main point is ALL games suffer some loss of performance in windowed mode , your fps will suffer at points and disabling aero frees up ram , cpu cycles and gpu memory , so my main point there is if you disable aero your performance will increase. So if your game doesnt , you should force it too , unless your happy with your game performance.
    I see... Well, anyway - if the display driver can't "lock" the "display surface", losing some performance is expected...

    zzz2496
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  5. Posts : 6,885
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Mint 9
       #15

    archie123 said:
    zzz2496 said:
    archie123 said:

    it shouldnt be , aero should be disabled by the game launcher , if i were you id check the "disable desktop composition" box in your launcher for better fps. every game i currently play (bad company 2 , crysis , warhed , far cry 2) all disable aero on launch
    Some games disable Aero, some don't, but the end is the same... Some games loses some fps when running in windowed mode, that's the main point here.

    zzz2496
    No my main point is ALL games suffer some loss of performance in windowed mode , your fps will suffer at points and disabling aero frees up ram , cpu cycles and gpu memory , so my main point there is if you disable aero your performance will increase. So if your game doesnt , you should force it too , unless your happy with your game performance.
    Never once have I seen an issue, but I will test it later with Furmark on my desktop.

    ~Lordbob
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  6. Posts : 6,885
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Mint 9
       #16

    Now this is actually very interesting:
    Second Monitor-fullscreen-test.pngSecond Monitor-windowed.png

    There is a 20 point score difference, with fullscreen scoring higher. There is also a temperature increase of 3 degrees between the 2, but that could have been because I did fullscreen first, so it was already warm.

    ~Lordbob
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  7. adt
    Posts : 126
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #17

    Thanks for the replies guys. I have plugged out the 2nd monitor since it's not much use to me. I have also noticed when running 2 monitors my GPU temperature goes up by about 15C.
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