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Between Window and Full Screen - Cardboardsnail - 2008-07-26
Lylac Wrote:Yes, laptops do have dedicated video cards. My video card is the GeForce 8600M GT which does a fantastic job.
Most laptops don't have the required slot for dedicated graphics (For laptops, it's an MXM slot)
Allen Wrote:Actually Quad/Dual Cores have no effect on the performance on Maple Story at all. I'm using a quad core and Maple Story is not coded to support multi-threading so it all just runs off one core.
I meant it will be faster when you alt+tab or switch between programs while using windowed mode
kleptophobia Wrote:I don't know for sure, but in my experiences with SDL (which on Windows uses DirectX 7) I found that window-mode applications had a lower average frame rate than Full-screen mode applications (even when both are hardware). So it may be due to the fact that it may have to interact with Windows more than if it were in full-screen mode? I'm not sure, I just learned this from experiments.
Yeah, windowed mode needs more resources
In windowed mode, your computer is handling your desktop and MS at the same time
Between Window and Full Screen - HiiEN - 2008-07-30
Well thing is I wasn't using Vista, I hate it and I'm using XP. But yeah the answer I figured was that window mode is more intensive considering your comp is going more than it can handle. Thanks for the input, everyone.