Should I make the switch from Fullscreen gaming to Borderless Windowed gaming?

[ManOfDisguise]

I saw that a lot of you guys play at Borderless Windowed. And it looks pretty cool since you don't have to alt tab and some games have problems with alt tabbing. Is it worth it making the switch to Borderless Windowed? Doesn't it feel weird to play on it?

[Presmo]

I saw that a lot of you guys play at Borderless Windowed. And it looks pretty cool since you don't have to alt tab and some games have problems with alt tabbing. Is it worth it making the switch to Borderless Windowed? Doesn't it feel weird to play on it?

I don't see any difference between the two

[Shimejii]

Yes it can be wierd, sometimes you can get buggy aftereffects, but up to the user.

[FixedDevice]

I saw that a lot of you guys play at Borderless Windowed. And it looks pretty cool since you don't have to alt tab and some games have problems with alt tabbing. Is it worth it making the switch to Borderless Windowed? Doesn't it feel weird to play on it?

 

Playing on fullscreen at your native resolution (usually in newer systems) will result in a higher performance increase than borderless windowed mode.

[gilm0re3]

Playing on fullscreen at your native resolution (usually in newer systems) will result in a higher performance increase than borderless windowed mode.

Just to add to this, I believe I have heard quite a few times that running in fullscreen basically tells your computer to only really focus on processing whats running fullscreen because why would you be multitasking if you're running something that's taking up the entire screen. So theoretically you should get slightly better performance because your computer is focusing on making multitasking not as necessary.

 

Or something to that extent.

[Kobathor]

I like bordered windowed, but on games like CS:GO the frames drop significantly (for me it drops from about 260 FPS to around 120)

[Jykos]

I do it so I can switch between my two screens while gaming (rocket league/ nfs so game audio doesn't matter) and listening to video podcasts. 

[Drunken Savior]

The benefits of borderless windowed outweighs the slight performance hit for me.

[ManOfDisguise]

The benefits of borderless windowed outweighs the slight performance hit for me.

is not alt tabing and being able to minimalize the only benefit?

[Drunken Savior]

is not alt tabing and being able to minimalize the only benefit?

 

Pretty much.  In rare cases, however, spme games are risky with their Alt+Tab when in fullscreen too as you said earlier.  It really depends on if you are the kind of gamer who really likes to multitask while you play a game.  If you do then borderless is a better experience due to how seamless it is.  But I know that during any load screen that I know takes more than 5 seconds (I'm looking at you Fallout 4) or any game with repetitive intros (like starting a mission or restarting a mission in MGSV) I'll alt+tab and check out reddit, email, or queue up some music or a video.

 

Sucks that I can't use shadowplay in borderless though.

[GoldSrc]

If you find yourself alt-tabbing a lot, try it, or if you have a game that breaks when you do that.