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Mobius
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada1268 Posts
July 31 2010 03:40 GMT
#41
On July 31 2010 12:40 Mobius wrote:
ya same, was fine in beta.. horrible to msn/sc2 now..

Entusman #51
Rkie
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1278 Posts
July 31 2010 05:02 GMT
#42
On July 28 2010 18:41 Daavee wrote:
Switch in the Graphic options from "Fullscreen" to "Windowed Mode (Fullscreen)".
This should solve tabbing problems as mentioned above.


do this.
Pebble
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany326 Posts
July 31 2010 05:04 GMT
#43
having this problem, too. HD 5770 here. should try that windowed mode 'trick'.

Thanks guys
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Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
July 31 2010 05:23 GMT
#44
Holy shit windowed fullscreen is awesome

It's like your desktop is SC2
[SECRET FONT] "Dragoon bunker"
PhiliBiRD
Profile Joined November 2009
United States2643 Posts
July 31 2010 05:30 GMT
#45
window mode + fullscreen

works great 4 me
Angra
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States2652 Posts
July 31 2010 07:46 GMT
#46
I'm sure other people have mentioned this in the thread too but you should try out Fullscreen Windowed mode. I love it so much after trying it out, you can tab through everything so easily.

On a similar subject though, it seems like retail SC2 is really stressing my computer way more than beta was. Not sure exactly why.
Zed03
Profile Joined July 2008
Canada112 Posts
August 01 2010 00:16 GMT
#47
On July 31 2010 06:22 Marradron wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 31 2010 06:16 SONE wrote:
I didn't say it was, I was saying that the statement : "Windowed (Fullscreen) provides the exact same gaming experience as Fullscreen." is not true. There is a performance hit, it is not the same at all.


Everything is the same, your frame rate might drop a little bit. The difrence however between 60 and 55 doesnt matter mutch anyways. For me it didnt since it was capped at 60 anyways.


Those who have crossfire or sli suffer an insane performance hit, as window mode does not support sli or crossfire.
7hink
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands10 Posts
August 04 2010 17:59 GMT
#48
Thanks for this solution guys. I've had enough of the waiting. Windowed (fullscreen) works well for me as well.
GreggSauce
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States566 Posts
August 28 2010 23:46 GMT
#49
10.8 came out for ATI and it fixed my problem completely
Must not sleep, must warn others
Nub4ever
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada1981 Posts
August 29 2010 00:40 GMT
#50
Using Windowed(Fullscreen) basically makes it like alt-tabbing to your desktop. Just its annoying whenever I open a new window it ends up as my background instead of my desktop but i guess its just a price you gotta pay for gettin instant alt-tabs
Dota 3hard5me
Usurper
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Macedonia283 Posts
August 30 2010 04:08 GMT
#51
On August 29 2010 08:46 GreggSauce wrote:
10.8 came out for ATI and it fixed my problem completely


Confirming this. To all those who are still not aware about the recent driver update - it's up and it's surely working for my HD 5850. ALT + TABing in takes only 1-5 secs max, now. Cheers!
I love humanity. It is people that i can't stand.
Xapti
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada2473 Posts
February 24 2011 05:22 GMT
#52
On August 30 2010 13:08 Usurper wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 29 2010 08:46 GreggSauce wrote:
10.8 came out for ATI and it fixed my problem completely


Confirming this. To all those who are still not aware about the recent driver update - it's up and it's surely working for my HD 5850. ALT + TABing in takes only 1-5 secs max, now. Cheers!

WHAT? I've ran two or more versions past 10.8, like 10.1 and 11.1 and they didn't fix the problem, so I dont' see how 10.8 does.
"Then he told me to tell you that he wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire" — "Well, you tell him that I said that I wouldn't piss on him if he was on Jeopardy!"
JhecC
Profile Joined October 2010
Philippines2 Posts
February 26 2011 12:26 GMT
#53
just set in "Graphics Options" Windowed[FullScreen]
"The is no knowledge, That is not power."
MrTortoise
Profile Joined January 2011
1388 Posts
February 26 2011 13:12 GMT
#54
its not just ati, i get it too with nvidia 8800gts

windowed mode does work but i hate it.
Its really not too much to ask to be able to alt tab.
Greek820
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada210 Posts
February 26 2011 15:19 GMT
#55
try using windowed fullscreen?
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7th-Real
Profile Joined December 2008
Australia93 Posts
February 26 2011 22:54 GMT
#56
Is this like a troll thread? whats with everyone suggesting the same thing as if it hasn't been said 50 times before.

Changing to windowed fullscreen will 'solve' the issue but it doesn't actually fix anything.
There is an issue with ATI card drivers that is causing a huge delay on changing resolutions,
Find some old drivers and fix the issue.
Fat people should have to buy two tickets.
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