Windowed, Fullscreen, and Borderless Modes. For Gaming?

[K i a r a]

Hey,

 

So as you can see, I don't have the "Best" setup by far. need to upgrade my GPU, waiting for a sale.

 

Most games I can hold 60FPS in, And thats fine to me, I prefer playing with V-Sync on.

 

But is it true playing in Fullscreen over Borderless is better?

 

I dont wanna play in Windowed.

 

or what.

 

Thanks.

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

dont upgrade a thing, if u get any dips its coz of vsync or too high settings, not worth upgrading tbh

[nickyteddy]

I've found that Alt Tab-ing with a borderless fullscreen window is far quicker than with a fullscreen window.

[Holy_Toast]

2 minutes ago, nickyteddy said:

I've found that Alt Tab-ing with a borderless fullscreen window is far quicker than with a fullscreen window.

I've found the same thing and plus when alt-tabbing which I do a lot if your in fullscreen mode can tend to crash games but in borderless doesn't tend to

[Jurrunio]

In theory fullscreen stops the PC from rendering your desktop so it's better, but in reality rendering the desktop takes negligible amount of power from the GPU, to the point where the crappiest integrated graphics can do it.

 

I have experienced bugs (probably Nvidia's fault) by going into fullscreen, specifically in Call of Duty WWII which the whole screen flickers in purple and green. I only experienced that in this game.

[jiyeon]

Fullscreen, always.

[MrTiC]

31 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

In theory fullscreen stops the PC from rendering your desktop so it's better, but in reality rendering the desktop takes negligible amount of power from the GPU, to the point where the crappiest integrated graphics can do it.

 

I have experienced bugs (probably Nvidia's fault) by going into fullscreen, specifically in Call of Duty WWII which the whole screen flickers in purple and green. I only experienced that in this game.

That purple and green flashing is a bug, you are prob using nvidia settings for colour, use the windows one

i had the same problems with Project cars 2 and fortnite

[SkilledRebuilds]

I feel personally, by experience #Feels,..Dedicated Fullscreen, gets better performance than Borderless for the most part..
I see More frametime variance with Borderless than proper Fullscreen in MANY games.

 

[Nocte]

Absolute performance: fullscreen

Convenience (alt-tab, etc): windowed

[K4lim]

I playing all my games in Borderless-Windowed mode (as long as they support it) because of alt-ttabbing out mid game but as other people said, the performance is slightly affected and you sometimes get some input-lag.

[Doobeedoo]

At Borderless the Dektop is rendered as well so that's why you can alt-tab instantly like regular windows. But this mode can caue input lag for a game so depends. 

For fps games and fast paced I use Fullscreen mode, for like WoW I use Borderless cause I tend to tab out regularly too. 

[SolarNova]

Depends on the game.

 

Some prefer fullscreen, some borderless windowed.

 

Some even run in borderless windowed even though the option ingame says 'fullscreen'.

 

I just started playing Warframe for example, this game hates tabing out when in Fullscreen, it will sometimes crash. Its a known old issue with the game. So most people play borderless windowed. No performance drops, but the game is super easy to run anyway so any perf decrease wont be noticed.