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When you’re adjusting your game settings and optimizing your monitor, you can tweak the resolution, detail settings, and often choose what kind of window mode you want to use. Two of the most popular ...

If you want to enable or disable Optimizations for windowed games in Windows 11, here is how you can do that. Microsoft recently included this option so that users can get better performance from a ...

More and more PC gamers have been snapping up high refresh rate displays, some of which have HDR capabilities. If you’re one of those lucky folks, good news! Your PC gaming experience will soon get ...

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As discussed in the comments to this Ars Article, FreeSync can only work in Full-screen exclusivity mode. I don't have a FreeSync monitor to play with (yet!) so I had a few questions: 1. Do secondary ...

Get the biggest possible picture of all the weirdness in Look Outside. Look Outside is stuck on Windowed Mode by default. To change it, you’ll need to press a button on your keyboard. F5 will switch ...

never played q3 but i know in COD and ET you can hit alt+ent to put the game in windowed mode and then alt-tab, but it can cause the game to lockup sometimes. i run both games windowed all the time ...