Borderless mode on games causes lag
When playing league of legends I commonly like to google for statistics, such as this article and as such, I play on borderless mode so I can make use of my three screens. Commonly I can be found playing a game on the central screen, watching a movie (netflix) on my right screen and either posting on here, or doing other cool things on the left screen.
However, recently I have found that I am getting problems with my FPS dropping to around 15fps while playing all of my games on borderless mode. These games range from watch dogs, to league of legends, even to portal 2. I am concerned that this was not happening before, and is just happening now. Is there anything I can do to solve the problem? I don't' have any problems in proper full screen mode, but it makes going between screens more tricky.
I have a Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 and I am using three screens running on 1920x1080 resolution. I play all the games at max settings which can be done easily with my Intel Core i7-3630QM processor. Any other technical details can easily be added, if needs be put the other stuff I need to put here in a comment.
Best Answer
Unfortunately when you run in actual full-screen mode, you get exclusive access to the GPU, however is borderless mode you can share it with other processes. As far as my knowledge stretches, there is no way to solve this. It might be best to cut down on using all the programs possible at once, and maybe also to only use two screens.
These factors are out of your control. For anyone else who reads this, and who uses a graphics card that isn't the GTX 690 and has CrossFire support, borderless mode might even further impact your fps because it is not supported.
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Does borderless cause lag?
Browsers in General need between 200 and 1GB of RAM, depending on how many addons are installed and how many tabs are open, so this is a factor. Third, borderless windowed mode is always a tad slower.Does borderless gaming affect performance?
It's very dependent on the game - some games take a pretty big hit running in a window, whereas with many games, the effect is negligible.Do games run better in borderless window?
This YouTuber tested the FPS of five different titles in windowed, windowed borderless, and fullscreen mode and found only minimal differences: Therefore, any improvement in performance after switching to fullscreen is most likely just in your head.Fullscreen vs Borderless Windowed | Which one is better?
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If you run a game in borderless while using multi gpu, you wil experience FPS drops indeed, this because you tell the GPU to focus on one screen, on one program, but then u start using multiple screens and/or multiple programs....
disable mutli gpu in your graphics settings, and this wil be solved
you won't need multi gpu unless you do some heavy fullscreen gaming with 4k rez, editing or some 3d work
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