Fullscreen V Windowed

[sodermat]

Hi everyone,

I bought a new rig about 6 months ago and despite the rule of thumb that full screen mode devotes more resources to a game than Windowed borderless does, all my games (metal gear solid 5, withcer 3, Fallout 4, Batman Arkham Knight etc) all run smoother and with a higher frame rate in windowed mode, with the same game settings applied. Even after removing 30fps locks etc in the ini files etc (which can cause jerky frame rate) they still run better in windowed mode.

Is this just because games are built to run better in windowed mode now?

Any thoughts appreciated.

My rig:
Intel core i7-4790k 4GHZ
ASUS Maximus VII Hero
16 GB Trident X 2400
Operating System: Windows 8.1, 64-bit
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce GTX 980
Driver version: 358.91
Direct3D API version: 11.2
Direct3D feature level: 11_1
CUDA Cores: 2048
Core clock: 1228 MHz
Memory data rate: 7010 MHz
Memory interface: 256-bit
Memory bandwidth: 224.32 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 12011 MB
Dedicated video memory: 4096 MB GDDR5
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 7915 MB
Video BIOS version: 84.04.31.00.CA
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen3

 

[DustyDanglerX]

I used to play on windowed mode before but i usually got input lag and just play fullscreen since some games dont work on sli without fullscreen and gpu usage drops