FPS Boost disabling fullscreen optimization? 

If you disable full screen optimizations, yes, when you'll alt-tab your in-game brightness will drop but there's 2 fixes to it, -disable_d3d9ex or just binding keys to max your brightness, for example bind "k" "mat_monitorgamma 1.6" bind "l" "mat_monitorgamma 1.9" , by pressing these two buttons your in-game brightness will be maxed out again

in another episode of "fps boosting that aint gonna work but i still watch it anyway because it's fun to tweak settings and see how it performs"

DPI scaling helps with text or buttons in applications. Not too much with games. It helps scaling the "dots per inch" so when you scale text or applications up or down it doesn't look blurry. Like when you have a 4k monitor, you might want windows UI to be 200, 175, 150 or 125% the size. Some apps do it right, some do it wrong and over all, windows manages it but in case it doesn't you can change this. It shouldn't affect performance at all and if it does its most likely within the margin of error.

By the time this series ends I'm gonna optimize CS:GO that much it's gonna run on triple the frames than Minecraft.

I never noticed an fps increase but my mouse feels more responsive.. Been using this for like 2 years

I disabled fullscreen optimization because my game felt like 60 hz with 200fps on 144 hz monitor. And that fixed it I dont know how.

"compability" nice one Maxim

i hope someone sees this... i enabled it and after while decided to change it back to the default. im still getting the brightness issues though.

I did this to my old pc with an fx6300 and an r9 270x back in 2019. Overall it did give me more average fps, went from 90-110 to 130-150, but I did not enable high dpi scaling. After building a new pc with a 2600x and a 2070 I havent experienced a significant difference. It could be that the settings changed since I tried it, but from my experience I'd say it matters more when the hardware is older.

It seem it fixed my CS GO. Always had stuttering and weird lags while shooting with somebody, since i dissabled the fullscreen optimisations for cs go the game runs like a dream. I had problems even tho i can run the game on highest with constant 240fps. Btw, right now i have NO side effects mentioned in the video. So if any of you had those back then and you left optimisations on, you might try switching them off now, maybe the side effects will be gone. Or maybe that's just my PC.

For certain games Fullscreen optimizations casues issues. For instance with it enabled with Crash Bandicoot Insane Trilogy prevents the game from running at your max refresh rate or refresh rates above 60hz. It's a known documented issue with that game and it causes the same issue with other games as well. This needs to be an option that can be disabled globally like when it was first introduced. When the feature was initially added it was an option in the Windows advanced graphics settings that could be globally disabled. They removed the option and instead made it a per game option. It concerns me that they may remove it entirely even on a per game level and games like Crash will not be fixable.

I know it's been a while when this video got uploaded but an interesting thing I found that some games can run a lot better without it an example was persona 5 stickers I've been running with a lot of stuttering and disabling Fullscreen optimization was really good for me and for some other games like borderlands 3 disabling Fullscreen optimization completely made the game not run at all(in task manager the game is there but it's in idol mode so it's using just a tiny bit of ram and that's it) as for the brightness issues I've never encounters that issue but so that you are clear I'm using the computer not laptop so the point of all of this is that full screen optimization very and depends on the game that you're trying to run and most people who try to use the disabling of the full screen optimization are trying their best to get the maximum amount of FPS so there isn't much of alt tabing when you're playing

I had the problem that while i'm streaming, csgo was lagging. Since i disabled fullscreen optimizations my stream started to be hella smooth. I also checked the override high DPI scaling behavior. The brightness change sometimes for me is not a problem cause i rather have a smooth stream or recording than stream/record on performance mode and not seeing how my overall stream looks like. Thanks for dropping this nice video! :)

if you disable full screen optimization it also turns off the windows media player thingy on the top right when playing songs

What annoys me is how there are no videos explaining how exactly it works and what exactly it does. Everyone has recommendations for it but nobody actually understands how it works, kinda making the recommendations based on ignorance and limited info

fullscreen optimization on=freezing/stuttering fullscreen optimization off=butter smooth honestly I don't get any of the side effects you mentioned like the brightness thingy, then again i'm on a laptop so maybe that makes all the difference

i was testing these aswell and noticed that, when playing a second MM my number keys would stop working on the buy menu for whatever reason. tabbing in and out fixed that, but is really annoying on the start of a round. I also have the gamma change, but most noticeable on desktop, and was able to fix it by some shenanigans in the Windows Color Managing Settings, under advanced Display Settings, the "use own Settings" and Windows Display Calibration seem to have inpact on that matter aswell.

bro the latest version of win 10 doesnt scale "fullscreen games" anymore, so the tweak was working in versions before 19XX in win10 but not after this. please researche before posting something like this

I disabled fullscreen optimization because it made my game super stuttery. With a 165 hz monitor and 300 FPS it still felt like 60 hz with 50ms inputlag. Enabling this setting made the game super smooth again.

So, if I don’t use alt+tab or do anything else while gaming, fullscreen is the best option for performance? Aka better disable fullscreen optimization? Thanks

For cs I wouldn’t really recomendo because of the brightness thing is a little frustrating, and cs already isn’t the fastest at tabbing out for some reason. I’m gonna bring the no no game here as an example. For Valorant it works pretty well because it doesn’t have the brightness control so it doesn’t affect it also tabs out pretty quick on both my machines from experience

In valorant i went from 144 fps to 220+ by disabling fullscreen optimization. Such a game changer. I think these optimizations forced v-sync no matter if i wanted or not.

Turning it off will 100% mess with youre mouse "feeling" cuz it fucks with ur muscle memory.. the mouse will feel alot faster and kinda out of control..

guys one of the setting you can change is choosing the wait for vertical sync option to triple buffer which reduces your fps drop and makes the VAR stable which reduces fps drop

Why not switch to Borderless Windowed if you aren't using the "real" Fullscreen with its actual downsides anyways?

I play on a low end PC, and I can't say if this works for everyone but Disabling Fullscreen Optimizations does prevent screen tearing if you have it so you wouldn't need to enable vsync (which was what I used before). Also, High DPI Scaling does solve the problem of blurriness if you're playing at a lower res like me (800*600). Can't say if they increase FPS though, but the game does feel smoother.

changing high dpi settings and setting to application basicly fixes program image quality if its blurred

I was playing elden ring & I decided to play with the graphics settings because it drops frames & stutters but suddenly I noticed when I choose borderless it gives true colors & blacks than the fullscreen! Man it look so amazing that the fullscreen setting looks gray compared to the borderless setting! Please how to fix this? I want the fullscreen because of the low latency but how to make the fullscreen setting to have the awesomeness of picture quality of the the borderless setting? I'm playing on windows 11 & using port display

Everytime i do it my mouse disappears and i can no longer record my game how do i fix that?

Idk why but when i disable it my game is messed up. When i start it i'm somehow in the game able to interact with the menu but i can only see my Desktop. I thought it might something with my graphic drivers settings (AMD) but nothing works. Playing on 4:3 btw.

I had to disable the full screen optimizations because I get screen flickering without it

Can i have your video settings u can see through molotovs really CLEAR?

I disable full screen optimisation for all games I play. Now it's a habit

Whenever I checkmark the "disable fullscreen optimizations" box, my screen goes stretched to what my CS resolution is but I only have the game audio. No matter what, I can't actually see the game unless I have it unchecked. Any help?

Everything is more responsive with Disable Fullscreen ticked+ Override high dpi scaling on League of legends. I get 600+ fps with both methods however with them unticked my game feels less responsive and i feel frametimes are more sluggish.

i was done with random crash on cs2 crros this video used disabling fullscreen optimization and high dpi one and it saved me thank you

Lol im legit confused cuz y'all are saying dont enable this or enable this. What do u recommend for low end pc

If you are playing with low end PC don't unchecked it you can't escape at loading screen

The main thing for me by disabling full screen optimisation is much less lag and much less heat and fan noise and power usage as I noticed on my laptop that full screen optimisation does use more power draw and pushes igpu and dgpu work much harder so in my opinion anyone with low end laptop like your wife should turn off full screen optimisation and game in true full screen instead 😊

my csgo is oppen but i dont see csgo lobby, when i tapped out it normal but dont get in the game

Is the alt tabbing brightness option in 2023 windows 11? I can’t really tell

Okay hear me out. I'm playing 16:10 (2560x1600) stretched and if I play csgo and have a video running on my second screen WITHOUT the tick in "disable full screen optimization", CGSO stutters like crazy. I don't know if that's because my main runs at 144hz and the other one at 60hz, but as soon as I tick the box and disable the feature, csgo becomes buttery smooth. Thats why I have it ticked.

does the dpi override has impact on fps or only on your "handling"/smoother aim?

it is true that fps increases but the movement is no longer fine, it seems to scratch, and the mouse feels different, you no longer have control over the movement of the mouse. In my opinion, it is best to leave the option unchecked.

I get the black screen on every game i alt-tab in even with fullscreen optimisation enabled. I hate it.

is there a way to make my game fullscreen when in stretched because i cant put it in fullscreen it will become blacked bars

please do a video on whether changing nvidia settings does anything, really wanna know this!

It depends on your gaming rig as well even if you have a beast pc

At 0:28 what does ska mean by I upped the frequency to 4100?

thanks BananaGaming - the things that worked for me wonders 1. mat_queue_mode 2 & fpsmax 0 2. priority 'high' and unchecked cpu 0 in affinity in task manager 3. Fullscreen opt disabled - 'Checked' 4. All settings low in csgo i get solid frames with lesser dips and lower temps

Hi!How about cs2? Is disabling do something for boost fps?

please do the commands 'r_eyegloss "0" r_eyemove "0" r_eyeshift_x "0" r_eyeshift_y "0" r_eyeshift_z "0" r_eyesize "0" ' they disable the eye makeup, and their movement

What version of windows 10 are you running?

When you play on borderless window. Doesn't that affect the Hz, lowering it to around 60 Hz? (if playing on higher rate monitors)

next video - good gamer chair fps boost?

I always wondered how it worked. Thank you for the video!

so i updated my cpu to an 5600x and now im playing with like 700 fps

Where is the dog PC test ?

i have two bind that set the brightness to lowest and highest so i can fix the brightness just by pressing two keys

I've been getting brightness changes for months without changing anything, go figure.

The input lag you really notice using a controller not really using a mouse

I bet soon he'll be reinstalling windows every day

I personally don't use this because it crashes my game after playing for a while (30 - 60 mins)

can you test windows game mode on/off and adding game applications into graphics settings in windows on high performance vs not having them there

0:25 um that comment talks about high dpi setting, not fullscreen optimization, lol.

Nice vid as always , love your content men

Lowering the mouse's polling rate to 500 prevents fps drops ppl say

Why are u replaying same gameplay over and over again

Can you cover Ancient map? I have Ryzen 3700X + 3070 and i have 100fps on Ancient. On mirage I have 600 fps...

what about windows 11?

I didnt know about the DPI scaling thingy

it worked for me, my fps was normal, until somehow it just goes bad one day, I tick this box and it workie normal again.

could you please lower the high frequencies in your speech in the video, hurts my ears.

FPS boost using hardware gpu scheduling? 🤔

This will disable the nvidia panel control digital vibrance settings so this game looks so much dark with this setting

Hey can anyone help me. On fivem I’m running into a issues where once I checkmark *disable full screen optimizations* once I play the game it turns the settings off once I log out. I play rust and did the same thing, rust doesn’t uncheck *disable full screen optimization* please help I’m clueless why it’s turning off once I quit

i disabled fullscreen opt. both on registry and game properties, here what i got : (-) fps drop tiny bit on specific games (+) massive control responsiveness improvement in most games (fifa, dirt rally, jc) second part was very worth it trade, made game very enjoyable. thats the reason why console feels so good despite being low fps.

2:01 banana looking sus 😂

Does this fix stuttering issues?

Hmmm. I was a big fan of Windows "tweaking , optimizing etc.". Even making hundreds of custom ISO`s and lost a lot of time I could spend for much more important things just to realize that game developers are too lazy to do those "optimizations" while developing a game. They develop the games to work on stock windows as it is from the Microsoft website and it is more likely to create only more problems than optimizations messing around with it...

Can you do a FPS inspect with steam overlay

no video about the new update..?

Compatability? no. Compability? YEA!

Yay thx maxim

you may be tired of all this shit but this game is so weird and funny. I also like to test tweaks. I used to disable fullscreen opti back in the day. (+4y) But I stopped to disable it around 2y back. Don't remember why tbh. I used to test a lot, but nowadays don't have that much free time. Idk why I revisited this tweak today, but here I am. GPU or Display scaling does not affect my fps. (XL2546K display scalling looks like trash) GPU scaled with disabled fullscreen optimization still instant alt-tabbing. (no windows overlays (f.e volume bar on top of the game when using media keys) so proper fullscreen is really working) Specs: OS win 10 LTSC 2021 21h2 cpu amd 5600x ram 16gb 3200mhz gpu radeon rx480 4gb settings 1280x720p low settings with x4 AA 128 tickrate ulletical fps map (too lazy too use other more proper method) fps with enable fullscreen optimization 480fps fps with disable fullscreen optimization 560fps tested multiple times, consistent results, less that 5fps variations. (only other "important" thing that I use is timer resolution to reach 0.5ms instead of 1ms. That gives me more stable fps, less spikes) 80 fps is a lot for a mid range setup lol. (dm alelen413 on socials if you want footage (Low quality smartphone))

anyone know how to go there on windows 11

does this apply to windows 11 now

why anyone would care about what Skadoodle have to say on any of this? he is getting a 2.3fps difference on this... on 300+ fps. And with OC it went around 17 to 13 fps of difference. Most people are not running with 360Hz displays, so with 200 to 300 fps you should be good. How the hell does this counts in any way like a form of optimization? 3:05 GOD DAMN IT, just play with borderless mode and FSO enabled. In the same very blog you are talking about they mention FSO is meant for borderless mode and give this mode the same performance when using Fullscreen Exclusive.

Great video, thanks man!

I actually made my csgo in 640x480 and its hella fps boost

When no one looks at the latency increase from disabling it

how do i do this on windows 8.1 im about to pull my hair out

I see fps boost, i click

does it work in win 11 ?

Can u do a guide that help not to help the game dont feed stutter

Cs2 win 11 ???

Nice

20 seconds in and he says "compability" LMAO

no activation, increment imput lag

if I don't turn off my game will have vsync