Hello Tom's Hardware forum,
I've recently been trying very hard to solve slow alt-tabbing in and out of games (in fullscreen, without the "borderless" setting). After a long search, I found out that matching the game's refresh rate with my monitor's was the solution, and most of my games were at 59 Hz. However, the alt-tabbing sped up only OUT of a game, not back into it, and I noticed that 50 Hz (same frequency as my outlet) helped it out A LOT.
1. How come an LCD display have issues with refresh rate, even though it was CRTs which were more vulnerable to mismatched refresh rates with the outlet?
2. Is it at all possible to have a hasty alt-tab with fullscreen games in spite of changing the refresh rate of the monitor?
If it helps, here are my specs:
Monitor: BenQ GL2460
CPU: Intel i5-7600 @ 3.5 GHz (up to 4.1 GHz)
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 650 Ti BOOST
RAM: 2x8 GB DDR4
Storage: 250 GB SSD & 1 TB HDD (although that's not the bottleneck here, is it?)
PSU: Corsair RM550x 550W 80+ Gold (it's an incredible one)
Motherboard: ASRock H170/Pro4 Hyper
I'll look forward to your answers.
I've recently been trying very hard to solve slow alt-tabbing in and out of games (in fullscreen, without the "borderless" setting). After a long search, I found out that matching the game's refresh rate with my monitor's was the solution, and most of my games were at 59 Hz. However, the alt-tabbing sped up only OUT of a game, not back into it, and I noticed that 50 Hz (same frequency as my outlet) helped it out A LOT.
1. How come an LCD display have issues with refresh rate, even though it was CRTs which were more vulnerable to mismatched refresh rates with the outlet?
2. Is it at all possible to have a hasty alt-tab with fullscreen games in spite of changing the refresh rate of the monitor?
If it helps, here are my specs:
Monitor: BenQ GL2460
CPU: Intel i5-7600 @ 3.5 GHz (up to 4.1 GHz)
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 650 Ti BOOST
RAM: 2x8 GB DDR4
Storage: 250 GB SSD & 1 TB HDD (although that's not the bottleneck here, is it?)
PSU: Corsair RM550x 550W 80+ Gold (it's an incredible one)
Motherboard: ASRock H170/Pro4 Hyper
I'll look forward to your answers.