Windowed -> then Fullscreen -> Faster?!

Murusama · 07-08-2010, 11:47 PM #1

Hey, currently iam playing Murasuma - The Demon Blade and it runs near perfect (only the Sound is glitchy sometimes) @ 720 p but when i start in Fullscreen Mode i have a loss of 5-8 Fps, but if i start in Windowed Mode and then switch with Alt + Enter to the Fullscreen Mode then i dont have any Framerates losses and it run perfect with 50 fps (playing the Pal Version). I dont know whether the is a Bug or not. Wantet only to report it here.

**darkshadw** · 07-08-2010, 11:55 PM #2

Same with all my other games Wink

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**StripTheSoul** · 07-09-2010, 01:54 AM #3

huh? didn't know that, I always start in fullscreen. What video plugin are you using?
Someone might want to forward this to Rodolfo...

**darkshadw** · 07-09-2010, 01:56 AM #4

DirectX9 Plugin Wink

Murusama · 07-10-2010, 01:01 AM #5

Ok, so iam not the only one, i have noticed something else: on New Super Marios you get black GFX Glichtes, but when u start in Fullscreen Mode there disapear, but the thing is that you lose speed.

**darkshadw** · 07-10-2010, 01:55 AM #6

Yeah, someone need to inform rodolfo of this issue Sad

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**neobrain** · (This post was last modified: 07-10-2010, 08:58 PM by neobrain.)

FWIW, if you run games in fullscreen, they might run faster because of possible driver optimization, since the driver can go around Vista's/7's compositing and directly render to the screen buffer.
Same effect in XP, although there are different factors to this.

EDIT: Alright, that one was unrelated ;P

**StripTheSoul** · 07-10-2010, 08:33 PM #8

@ NeoBrain: Good you're here Wink

However, I think you didn't quite get what this is about: It seems that game performance is better when first starting emulation in window mode and then switch to fullscreen than starting emulation in fullscreen. There definately has to be something wrong.

**neobrain** · 07-10-2010, 08:58 PM #9

aw, yeah I misread that he started in fullscreen and it was only faster once he switched to window and then back to fs again..

**StripTheSoul** · 07-10-2010, 10:28 PM **#10**

no, wait, that's not 100% it. He once started in fullscreen and once in windowed mode. Maybe the outcome is the same, but who knows? I think the breakpoint is what mode the emulation gets started in.