Dragon Age-Frame rates almost doubled in windowed mode

lidowxx · 01-31-2010, 10:01 AM

That's said, i was fiddling the graphic settings today and found my fps almost doubled

(from about 15-17 to 30-35) in windowed mode when switched from full screen mode at same resolution and settings(1920x1080, max settings,no AA). It's a pleasant surprise, of course, but i don't understand, do the two modes(windowed vs full screen) make the GPU work differently somehow?

Anyway, gonna play the game in windowed mode from now on

josmol · 02-01-2010, 12:02 PM

A VERY interesting find - will try this out. What driver are you using?

Melody · 02-01-2010, 02:13 PM

Well I did notice a major increase in FPS when in windowed mode, but I wasn't using the same resolution.

Hmmm I'll try it and see just for fun

JosePerez · 02-01-2010, 02:37 PM

Umm that's actually really weird as is supposed to be "harder" on the system to play games windowed... When you go fullscreen for a game, aero (for example) gets disabled, while when you open a game in windowed mode, this won't happen...

lidowxx · 02-01-2010, 02:53 PM

hmm, just a little update on my experience: the fps seems only to have a major boost in certain scenes, eg: indoor areas/small maps, on large maps likes Ostaga, the frame rate doesn't seem to be affected. But still it's nice to see I can tune up the settings to a higher level.

Btw, i am using official 186.82 driver.

myDooM · 02-01-2010, 03:00 PM

Doesnt make any sense at all :| Like Jose says, aero should still be enabled and that should decrease FPS..

Weird.

lidowxx · 02-01-2010, 03:06 PM

REB!, if it made sense to me, i wouldn't have made this thread.

key001 · 02-01-2010, 03:18 PM

take screenshots of both fullscreen and windowed modes at the exact same spot... there could be less details when in windowed mode, some games do that

myDooM · 02-01-2010, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lidowxx

REB!, if it made sense to me, i wouldn't have made this thread.

Yeah well, true that... We are all clueless.

sweetStyles · 02-01-2010, 05:25 PM

I experience the same thing in other games. My speculation is the the resolution is smaller (obviously) and enables for more framerates. I find this is regardless of the GUI (Aero) that this effect will happen.