strange fps happening

[mjs warlord]

I have a gtx 1080 in a 7 year old rig , i keep steams fps counter on all time.
On games that allow 144 fps i can do it without a problem.
I recently noticed some odd on a few games ....
On an old game called age of mythology extended it was showing around 60 fps , i tabbed out to checked an email then when i tabbed back it it was showing 144 fps ???

 

[D10S]

it probably changed monitor's in-game refresh rate after switching from desktop back to game, maybe fullscreen was set to 60hz but borderless/windowed defaulted to 144hz (your system's refresh, I assume). if you had vsync on that would explain it.
it's not unsual for monitors to go crazy when alt-tabbing, watch dogs 2 (or was it some other Ubisoft game) only showed quarter of the screen resized to full panel size sometimes. There was no other way to exit than a system shutdown with a button after that.

 

[Pifanjr]

With Spore I noticed that if I alt-tab the cursor doesn't line up with where the game thinks the cursos is, meaning I have to click slightly above whatever I want to click on.

Alt-tabbing can do weird stuff to games.

 

[Brian Boru]

Instead of Alt-Tab, try Win-M or Win-D—they both minimize everything to desktop.

However, sometimes Win-M doesn't minimize a game—but Win-D has never failed in my limited experience.

Not as convenient as a proper Alt-Tab, but better than a dodgy Alt-Tab