Windowed Mode Sucks.
Rockermonkey:
Oh yes, this has probably been mentioned. But Windowed Mode is the epitome of suck-dom.
Lets start off with the fact that anything lower then your native resolution is blur city, magnified into blobs of massive graphic dissatisfaction. And then my native resolution pushes the words down, making them jagged and unreadable, while also cutting the ends off of words. TS2 didn't do this, so why would it do it now?
Also, the performance hit makes no sense. Since usually Windowed mode is preferred for those with crappy computers. I have no lag either way, but it's noticeable that my game runs faster in full screen. I use the fpslimiter and in windowed mode I sometimes dip below 30 for a second and come back up but in full screen I the only difference in frames I have is 30-31. I'd imagine without the limiter the drops would be a lot more larger and annoying since I use to get up to 100-300 frames in CAS and dipping from high levels like that to normal would probably drive me crazy :D.
Also apparently my edge smoother is borked on windowed mode because even on it's highest it's all jagged and funked up. Yet, I switch to full screen and it's smooth like a babies bottom ;D.
But yeah, anyone agree that EA completely screwed up on this option. And is it possible that it may be fixable? I mean, I can deal because I like to check my temps every now and again but I may die from my sims being jagged even on the fullest setting possible. And the jagged and crazy text is an eye sore.
Simius:
I like it since it lets me do other shit while playing... or look up commands while playing. But yeah, I don't run it on my native resolution since that makes the picture suck balls. I run it on the next lower wide screen resolution and the picture is fine. I haven't noticed it run slower... then again once I figured out how to run it in windowed mode I haven't gone back.
Roflganger:
The only thing I really hate about windowed mode is the inability to use scrolling edges. Like Simius, I just drop down to the next widescreen resolution (since I have a widescreen monitor), which pretty much makes the graphics look identical to full screen. I also haven't noticed any significant performance hits; the benefit of not getting that monster hit when alt-tabbing certainly compensates for any minor hits I take.
Faizah:
I use windowed mode because I also have a dual-monitor setup, and full screen doesn't seem to like that. (One monitor for games/DVDs/etc, one for internet.) What I have noticed is that if I put it to the maximum, it does get slightly squished, but any in-game shots taken come out at the unsquished size. Since I take a lot of shots now, I like that. Just the right size for a desktop background on my widescreen monitors.
Plum:
Windowed mode works dandy for me. *shrug*
I have it the same size as my screen anyway, and only have it windowed so I can use my second monitor, but when I've made it smaller for whatever reasons it's always continued to look fine. I haven't noticed it running any slower either.
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