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Any different between Fullscreen and Borderless window ?

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By WeldonWen
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Generally, a true full screen will run faster.  In a borderless window, the game is running in a window with the desktop rendered behind it and it's less efficient.  But you could have enough resources that neither makes a difference.

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Play games in same solution as the screen , and see no different between Fullscreen and Borderless Window . Is there any different between both ? If not , what's the point to have Borderless Window ?

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Doesn't Borderless Window also display the taskbar?

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Generally, a true full screen will run faster.  In a borderless window, the game is running in a window with the desktop rendered behind it and it's less efficient.  But you could have enough resources that neither makes a difference.

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Doesn't Borderless Window also display the taskbar?

I hide taskbar usually , so IDK

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borderless makes it easier to alt-tab out of the game.

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Doesn't Borderless Window also display the taskbar?

It does not

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I use borderless windowed so I can use my second monitor while in games.

 

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