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Okay so recently ive been trying to play valorant in fullscreen and even before my pc ran fullscreen in valorant very well but recently it stopped working i launched valorant and it was just a black screen then i press f11 and it took me to windowed but everytime i tried to change it back to fullscreen the screen would just freeze i could hear everything in the backround moving and stuff but i couldnt see what i was pressing because it froze. I was told it might have to do with my pc and i needed to update drivers and i tried that but i don't think it worked. And its hard for me to play valorant windowed or fullscreen windowed because i get low fps but before i had gotten high fps with fullscreen.
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Hello i hope you can still help me. I currently have the same problem. I tried all the following above but I can't seem to be able to fix it. I can only run valorant on windowed fullscreen. It feels laggy in windowed fullscreen. I get around 200-300 fps and monitor is on 144 hz but it feels like the refresh rate is capped or the fps is low. When i turn on full screen mode. It freezes and I can hear everything in the background.
Please do respond, This same issue is occuring with me, I can hear everything in the background, when I move the cursor around it change to the pointer (In where the option areas are) but everything is frozen unless I use windowed and also the cursor is flickering a little bit in fullscreen mode. Please help me as soon as possible. And yes this is only for valorant.
Im having the same problem
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Hi Laylamiles,
I'm Christine, an Independent Advisor and a Windows user like you. I can see here that you're having issue with playing games with Fullscreen as it's giving you a blackscreen. No worries, I'll do my best to help you.
Please check and follow the steps below:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/upd...
Please press the Windows key + X
Then click Device manager
Kindly expand the Display Adapters
Right click the driver and choose Uninstall.
Restart your device and it should reinstall the driver
Check if the issue persists.
On Windows 11:
Right click on start menu and choose Task Manager
Click Details Tab and end the task of explorer.exe
Then click Run New Task and type explorer.exe and hit enter
On Windows 10
Right click on start menu and choose Task Manager
Click Details Tab and end the task of explorer.exe
Hit File then click Run new Task and type explorer.exe and press enter
Please let me know the result. I'll be happy to assist you all the way until it's resolved.
Thank you,
Christine L
Independent Advisor
I tried Both and it still did not work.
Also im pretty sure it started a month ago and ever since ive tried everything. Ive tried updating my drivers.
the system model is a OptiPlex 5050
and im using windows 10
