Poor FPS in Windowed/Windowed Fullscreen

Hello,

I am having trouble getting stable FPS on either Windowed of Windowed Fullscreen. When in fullscreen I have around 200 stable FPS on a 4k monitor with a GTX 1080. When I am in windowed, I get about 30-40 FPS.

I have disabled Vsync and that did not seem to change it.

POE really is a windowed only game with the constant shuffle between monitors to price check and trade. Playing in fullscreen becomes tedious and annoying.

I also have a second monitor which is a standard 1080p. I'm not sure if the resolution difference is causing issues.

Thank you!

This was happening to me for years, sometimes i had to restart to fix the problem temporally.

I think the problem is related with G-Sync on windowed mode since disabling G-Sync was another workaround.

Today i found the main problem for me was that every time i update my NVIDIA drivers the refresh rate of my monitor goes back to 60HZ idk why.


in my case To solve this problem permanently i just had to go to: nvidia control panel> Display> Change Resolution then put Refresh Rate back to 144HZ.

Hope it helps if not you future people with this problem i had so much trouble for over a year.

Edit: Sigh, some times after alt-tab for long time still keeps being locked in inactive mode after tabing back in. i have to prompt alt+ENTER twice and it gets fixed.

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AtownStomp wrote:

Hello,

I am having trouble getting stable FPS on either Windowed of Windowed Fullscreen. When in fullscreen I have around 200 stable FPS on a 4k monitor with a GTX 1080. When I am in windowed, I get about 30-40 FPS.

I have disabled Vsync and that did not seem to change it.

POE really is a windowed only game with the constant shuffle between monitors to price check and trade. Playing in fullscreen becomes tedious and annoying.

I also have a second monitor which is a standard 1080p. I'm not sure if the resolution difference is causing issues.

Thank you!

vsync and the likes do not work when you are in windowed

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lagwin1980 wrote:

vsync and the likes do not work when you are in windowed

The world has become more complex: G-Sync fullscreen windowed support is now a thing.

Also, windowed mode in Windows 10, and earlier versions without specific customization, run through the compositing window manager, so vsync is controlled by that, and is enabled by default, in the triple-buffered form, so you can't really escape it. In-game vsync then controls if you render multiple frames or just one between display updates.

I've had intermittent issues with poor FPS in windowed mode for a while now and I found there would be poor performance if i had any other active windows open at the same time as poe. I now minimize all open programs and make poe the only active window, this has solved all of my fps issues.

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Excillis wrote:

I've had intermittent issues with poor FPS in windowed mode for a while now and I found there would be poor performance if i had any other active windows open at the same time as poe. I now minimize all open programs and make poe the only active window, this has solved all of my fps issues.

This means dwm.exe is performing poorly, go into services and disable it, and prevent it from starting up.

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Orca_Orcinus wrote:

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Excillis wrote:

I've had intermittent issues with poor FPS in windowed mode for a while now and I found there would be poor performance if i had any other active windows open at the same time as poe. I now minimize all open programs and make poe the only active window, this has solved all of my fps issues.

This means dwm.exe is performing poorly, go into services and disable it, and prevent it from starting up.

What a stupid advice, you either think you are funny or are totally ignorant.

Sure prevent the windows manager from starting, what could go wrong?

The first thing that windows 10 users should do if they have poor fps in windowed/windowed fullscreen is to disable fullscreen optimizations, not only globaly but also individually in each game's properties just to be on a safe side.

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AtownStomp wrote:

Hello,

I am having trouble getting stable FPS on either Windowed of Windowed Fullscreen. When in fullscreen I have around 200 stable FPS on a 4k monitor with a GTX 1080. When I am in windowed, I get about 30-40 FPS.

I have disabled Vsync and that did not seem to change it.

POE really is a windowed only game with the constant shuffle between monitors to price check and trade. Playing in fullscreen becomes tedious and annoying.

I also have a second monitor which is a standard 1080p. I'm not sure if the resolution difference is causing issues.

Thank you!

You can't disable vsync, that's not a thing any longer. You can tell Poe to allow screen tearing, via an ingame option, but it will still use resources to try to vsync, that's just how monitors work nowadays.

They do that because all monitors nowadays have gsync built in, so if you have a refresh rate that's on a device not equipped w gsync and try to use the same draw device (basically same graphics card or on board graphics) it will make the gsync monitor halt it's draw to allow the screen to tear. You can try to see if there is a draw n queue option such as a flip queue size, and alter that.

If not, you are simply forced to compel the monitors to draw at the same refresh rate, or deal with excessive tearing.

disable dvr then delete apps
Run administrator powershell then use comand :
Get-AppxPackage *xboxapp* | Remove-AppxPackage