Xplane in windowed mode - FPS halves

[GodAtum 69]

When I run Xplane in windowed mode or in full-screen mode with my mouse clicking outside, my FPS is almost halved, from 40-50fps to 20 fps. Is this usual?

[ohsirus 241]

I just checked my set up and no FPS change. Maybe you have something running in the background that pauses when you give focus to XPX? Video Card Switching states?

[CarlosF 1,235]

Nope, no problem here.

[GodAtum 69]

Thanks for looking. I have no obvious background processes running and my CPU and memory usage are no different.

 

My specs are: 4770k @ 4.8Ghz, ATI 7970, 16GB RAM.

[uwespeed 497]

Only a guess: your ATI card. ATI OpenGL drivers aren't really good. But I don't know if this is the case with you ...

[ohsirus 241]

Maybe driver issue? I've never touched an ATI card.

[CapnSplat 36]

Windowed mode does seem a little wonky. I see about a 10% decrease in framerate if I run the sim in an 800x600 window as opposed to 1920x1080 fullscreen. I wouldn't ever fly at 800x600, but that does seem a little off to me. (For what it's worth: v10.30b8, Win 7 64-bit, 760 OC 4GB, 340.52)

[GodAtum 69]

Also, in full-screen when i click my mouse to my 2nd monitor, it slows down too.

[ohsirus 241]

I wonder if it's a multimonitor issue then? I only tested a single monitor configuration.

[deetee 164]

Do you set your taskbar to auto hide?

If not try it.

[GodAtum 69]

Do you set your taskbar to auto hide?

If not try it.

 

Gave that a try, unfortunately did not make any difference.

[finkelstein 25]

Have you tried disabling Aero, if it is currently enabled?

[jcomm 5,890]

Well, I am forced to use it in windowed mode now that I am using it with PSX, but I am getting good fps, usually above 60!!!