Game runs sloww on windowed mode

I cant reproduce this at all, will enlist feedback from an AMD card user.

In a while after other things I will run it on my Vega 8

 

Top of my head, if you have something else in focus you will lose FPS due to it being treated as a background process

Can't confirm. Using my Vega8 (APU on Ryzen 3 3200G) limiting my ram in my system to 12GB I actually increased FPS by about 2 - 4 FPS in windowed mode.  You may want to alter your power plan to give it more performance, and tell Windows to prioritize programs

 

You may also want to use the game launcher cleaning tool to clean your game settings, which will wipe the registry containing old settings.

Edited December 14, 2021 by Jugginator (see edit history)

@Jugginator I am running windows 11. I wonder if it is due to the OS. I will try the launcher cleaning tool and update you all

2 hours ago, damain said:

@Jugginator I am running windows 11. I wonder if it is due to the OS. I will try the launcher cleaning tool and update you all

Ohhh I see. Yeah I am on windows 10. Keep us posted

I used the cleaner and since then the ram on my laptop has been upgraded but it still runs slow on windowed mode.

not getting any serious issues here but i do have ryzan 7 2700x, rtx 2080 ti 3 27" led monitors and 64G ram.

 

remember you see all those other windows thus they are being rendered by your GPU so when at full screen your video card does not render them (until you leave game).

 

in game turn down or off shadows and reflections.. lower setting to medium if you havent tried it yet.

 

i am thinking vram at 2g is slightly pushing it. could be your card needs more ventilation too.

Going to "close" this ticket, since this is an isolated issue.

 

You may respond here of course, but likely will see a boarder audience in general support. What Joe said is likely the culprit, although with the way Windows 11 handles games currently that may also be causing overhead. There have been some updates, but I currently don't have a Windows 11 setup for testing.

 

Side note, also did this on a Win 8.1 laptop with 8gb of ram and an igpu which has like 512mb dedicated ram and shares up to about 2gb and it performed slightly better in windowed mode with the desktop icons disabled.

 

You MIGHT also get a performance increase by shutting down explorer through the task manager and running the game in windowed mode (if you need to enable the desktop again just click File, Run New Task, enter explorer or explorer.exe)

Edited February 5, 2022 by Jugginator (see edit history)