FSX: Window Mode vs. Full Screen

[kerke 0]

In your experience, and regardless of your underlying hardware and OS (XP or Vista), is there any frame rate or performance advantage to running FSX in Full Screen mode vs. Window mode?Kerke

[brucets 94]

Kerke - Windowed mode always seems to work better for me in both FS9 and FSX. I have experimented with both fairly frequently. Don't have any hard data to demonstrate though.Scott

[ryanbatc 12,857]

you'll find different answers.....but mine's always been the same as Scott

[aerdt 0]

I did a short flight yesterday witg FSX and Vista and I can report just the opposite. Full screen got me an fps boost of 8-10 fps. I'll try, if I can duplicate this.This was with Vista Ultimate 64Bit and nVidia ForceWare 100 beta release.Pat

[Guest RonB49]

>In your experience, and regardless of your underlying>hardware and OS (XP or Vista), is there any frame rate or>performance advantage to running FSX in Full Screen mode vs.>Window mode?>Hi Kerke,My experience has been that you must determine this on your own system. When I first got FS9 I had an ATI 9200 card and got better performance in windowed mode. Since changing to an ATI X1300, full screen is much better. So I say try each and decide for yourself.R-

[Guest allcott]

Ron, +1Best of all, it takes only seconds to find out. Allcott

[Reset XPDR 1,271]

I get much higher FPS in windowed mode over full screen.Gary

[vgbaron 3,627]

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