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Grek

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Windowed FPS
« on: April 18, 2008, 02:02:00 am »
I get 4-5 FPS while in windowed mode and 40-50ish FPS in full screen with a colony of 20 dwarves. No idea why windowed mode is so much slower.
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GreyMario

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Re: Windowed FPS
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2008, 02:08:00 am »
Normal.

Windows is a gigantic memory hog when it comes to title bars.

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Re: Windowed FPS
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2008, 02:29:00 am »
No, this is not normal - I get roughly the same fps in windowed mode as I do in full screen (and my computer is hardly spectacular).

I'm not sure what the problem is, but it's not windows being a giant resource hog with the title bar.

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Re: Windowed FPS
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2008, 04:42:00 am »
I get higher FPs in windowed mode than in fullscreen.  I always run it in a window, just to scrape up those extra few drops of speed.
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