• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 11:44
CEST 17:44
KST 00:44
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
[ASL22] Ro16 Preview: Rough Waters9[ASL22] Ro24 Preview: Siren's Call8[ASL22] Ro24 Preview: Summer's End9Serral wins HomeStory Cup 2915Serral wins Maestros of the Game 244
Community News
Weekly Cups (Aug 30-Sep 7): herO thrives amid growing schism8Official StarCraft website teases new content ahead of BlizzCon?123Stellar Fest TWO the Moon (Dec 16-20)9Weekly Cups (August 24-30): Patches' balance mod takes over3New 3v3 BGH Ladder (and more) on ShieldBattery!46
StarCraft 2
General
Weekly Cups (Aug 30-Sep 7): herO thrives amid growing schism SC4ALL: II Winner will earn a spot at HSC 30! SC4ALL II: StarCraft 2 Player Announcement 7/8 Nexon wins bid to develop StarCraft IP content, distribute Overwatch mobile game Balance hotfix patch 5.0.16b (July 16)
Tourneys
Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament Sea Duckling Open (Global, Bronze-Diamond) 2026 GSTL Announcement Stellar Fest TWO the Moon (Dec 16-20) IntoTheTV X SOOP SC2 League : Weekly & Monthly
Strategy
[G] Having the right mentality to improve
Custom Maps
Nexus Wars 2021 GUIDE [M] (2) Industrial Park
External Content
Mutation # 542 The Ascended Mutation # 541 Binary Choice The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 540 Dodge This
Brood War
General
Official StarCraft website teases new content ahead of BlizzCon? [D] Brainstorming a balance patch for Brood war Terran or Protoss BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ BW General Discussion
Tourneys
[ASL22] Ro16 Group B [ASL22] Ro16 Group A KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 3 BWCL Season 65 Announcement
Strategy
Replay Review Process - What do you do? Simple Questions, Simple Answers Odyssey Mineral Stack Saturation Game Theory for Starcraft
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread EVE Corporation Diablo IV [Maplestory Hardcore] Let's Play~!! General RTS Discussion Thread
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
[TL LoL EUW IHs] Teemo shall perish TSM pausing esports and CLG Dead
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Power Rank TL Mafia Community Thread NeO.D_StephenKing vs This Guy From 1 Million Dance
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread Trading/Investing Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine
Fan Clubs
MarineLorD Fan Club The Creator Fan Club The ShoWTimE Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! Anime Discussion Thread
Sports
Football (Soccer) Thread TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 MLB/Baseball 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List Northern Ireland Global Starcraft
Blogs
Virtual Romance, Real-Life C…
TrAiDoS
Regacy Esports:Our Goa…
regacyesports
Dreaming of BW patches (mod…
c3rberUs
LOCKPICKING NOOB
LUCKY_NOOB
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 7495 users

Slow Alt-Tabbing Speed (Back to SC2) - Page 3

Forum Index > Tech Support
Post a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 All
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
3:50 PM jaedung: scouting is useless in sc2
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?
(>^.^)>~~~ Phenom ii x4 955, Gigabyte 6850, g.skill 4gb ripjaws, GA-880GA mobo, corsair cx500w, storm scout, WD 500gb blue
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.
Prev 1 2 3 All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 6h 46m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
BRAT_OK 72
Trap 20
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 36604
Shuttle 1675
Mini 738
EffOrt 581
Soulkey 556
Horang2 339
Soma 290
Rush 258
firebathero 105
Sea.KH 85
[ Show more ]
Dewaltoss 85
hero 84
Pusan 62
910 55
Yoon 52
Mong 33
Sexy 25
sorry 15
Terrorterran 10
scan(afreeca) 8
Dota 2
qojqva3723
Dendi1749
420jenkins269
Counter-Strike
byalli1432
x6flipin351
pashabiceps245
ScreaM165
Other Games
singsing1892
Liquid`RaSZi926
mouzStarbuck386
crisheroes357
FrodaN225
XaKoH 139
uThermal96
ArmadaUGS89
RotterdaM82
KnowMe59
Trikslyr36
Organizations
StarCraft: Brood War
UltimateBattle 708
[ Show 14 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• mYiSmile135
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• Migwel
StarCraft: Brood War
• HerbMon 27
• FirePhoenix2
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Nemesis3178
• TFBlade1172
Other Games
• Shiphtur190
Upcoming Events
OSC
6h 46m
Escore
18h 16m
IntoTheTV X SOOP
19h 16m
CranKy Ducklings
1d 18h
Sparkling Tuna Cup
2 days
Shopify Rebellion Sundays
2 days
Spirit vs Mixu
Clem vs TBD
RSL Revival
3 days
Serral vs Rogue
BlizzCon
3 days
IdrA vs MC
Replay Cast
3 days
Afreeca Starleague
3 days
[ Show More ]
WardiTV Weekly
3 days
Afreeca Starleague
4 days
GSL
4 days
PiGosaur Cup
5 days
The PondCast
5 days
Kung Fu Cup
5 days
Replay Cast
6 days
IntoTheTV X SOOP
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-09-08
PiG Sty Festival 8.0
Big Dog Cup 2026 Div 1

Ongoing

KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 3
K-JUNGMAN
ASL Season 22
Super Anchor Qualifying S3
CSL 2026 AUTUMN (S22)
Acropolis #5
Acropolis #5 - TRS
RSL Revival: Season 6
Calamity Invitational
FISSURE Playground #3
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer Qual
Stake Ranked Episode 3
XSE Pro League 2026

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S3: King of Kings
Acropolis #5 - GSA
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
Acropolis #5 - GSB
Acropolis #5 - GSC
SC4ALL II: Brood War
HSC XXX
Stellar Fest 2: Lunar Cup
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
RSL Offline Finals
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 6
BLAST Rivals Fall 2026
IEM Beijing 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 5
PGL Masters Bucharest 2026
1win Private Club #2
Thunderpick World Champ. '26
ESL Pro League Season 24
Stake Ranked Episode 4
1win Private Club #1
Logitech G Play Connect 2026
SL StarSeries Fall 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.