Windowed mode framerate vs Full screen framerate

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I'm developping an XNA game and I usually start my application in windowed mode for debug purposes. For strange reasons, my application is 50% slower in windowed mode than in fullscreen mode.

Can someone tell me why and how the windowed mode affects the framerate ?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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Check this similar question. The guy explains clearly why this behavior happens.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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answered Jul 11 '09 at 17:16

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Thank you for the link, I narrowed my search to XNA and skipped that post! – Jodi Jul 11 '09 at 17:42

Windowed mode framerate vs Full screen framerate

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