Windowed mode vs Full Screen

[JohnSebastian]

Which is better, windowed mode or full screen mode? What mode which use more less % of CPU?

[Deathlike2]

Which is better, windowed mode or full screen mode?

Does it matter? ZSNES doesn't explode either way.

What mode which use more less % of CPU?

Fullscreen. Windowed mode uses the desktop color depth (16 or 32-bit) and if you are using a 32-bit desktop... there will be lots more overhead. Even if you had a beefy CPU, you will feel the effects of HQx+32-bit Windowed mode in certain games. Fullscreen always uses 16-bit. If the drivers from your manufacturer suck, most likely fullscreen will be significantly faster anyways.

[JohnSebastian]

Deathlike, I have Intel Celeron 1GHz, 256 RAM, Max resolution 1024x768, Direct X 9.0, refresh rate 60hz, Windows XP service pack 2. What Zsnes setting which you recomended to me?

[creaothceann]

Just try them. 1024x768 DS fullscreen + interpolation for example is nice, IMO.

1. Disable auto-frameskipping, make sure that manual frame skip is set to zero and that the monitor's running at 60 Hz, and enable Triple Buffering or VSync.

2. Start Super Metroid or another game with smooth scrolling in the intro.

3. If the scrolling is not smooth, your computer is not fast enough for that combination of mode+filter.

[Deathlike2]

I shouldn't have to tell you, you need to find out on your own really. Since you have not mentioned the video card, it's even tougher to tell. Just test it out yourself.. and enabling the frame counter (Config->Options->FPS At Program Start, you will probably want to restart ZSNES for this to take effect).

640x480 should probably be fine in any case (upping the res only increases the requirements/cpu usage).

[vigi_lante]

But CPU power aside, the scrolling on windowed mode would be as smooth as fullscreen ?

[Deathlike2]

But CPU power aside, the scrolling on windowed mode would be as smooth as fullscreen ?

It should be.. but as I said before.. unless your drivers just flat out suck (Intel comes to mind), there should be no difference. Most older video cards will not have good Windowed support, thus hampering performance significantly.