No. It was a general comment that it’s difficult to know which suggestions to believe and which not. I know lots of the claims are true but many more are not so it gets frustrating sometimes. I made that post to let people know there’s an actual tool they could be using, like you have.
But back to your data. Thanks. It’s clear there’s much less consistency in the “in focus” data so there is something to this. Like I was showing in my charts, it’s not about the framerates. It’s about the consistency in the framerates. Here’s my time diffs and L-shape charts for the data I posted above. My frametimes are pretty consistent thus I get smooth flights.
Let me posit a thought on what is happening. I don’t use motion reprojection either. If you notice on my chart I’m showing those measurements as “30fps capped”. I started capping my framerate because I was seeing what you showed, lots of variations between the frametimes. I also noticed that my GPU was maxed out at 100% usage. I think when the GPU is maxed it has a hard time giving consistent performance. When I cap my framerate my GPU doesn’t run at 100% utilization. It’s 80-90%. That’s when my 1% and 0.1% lows improve so I think because the GPU isn’t maxed that it has some headroom to perform better for the low framerate times.
So maybe it’s the same thing with this situation. People are running uncapped. So when the game window is in focus Windows gives the game a hgih priority and that pushes the GPU to the max leading to inconsistent performance. On the opposite side, when the game is not in focus, the game doesn’t receive the highest priority from Windows and therefore the GPU works a little easier and therefore the consistency between frames is better. It might be a logical conclusion.
But in the end and after comparing my data with your data I think you’re chasing a pipe dream. I think the window being in or out of focus is of little consequence. There is an improvement but look at my time diff chart compared to yours. My blue color extends to around 87% of the time versus your graphs that extend to 17% in the best case. I think running the window out-of-focus makes very little difference. This is why I like seeing data. Yes, you did find something but I think it’s of little consequence.