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Ask HN: Why do games usually reach higher FPS in full screen mode?

• oregontechninja 6y ago
  This is probably more of a stack overflow question. Good luck hunting for answers!
• billconan 6y ago
  in fullscreen mode, you do flipping. in windowed mode, https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/double-buffer.html https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/double-buffer.html you do blitting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_blit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_blit