Windows 10: Cant play most games in fullscreen

It started when i bought GTA5 on steam and everything was good until a couple days into it. i would startup the game and it just froze. but if i pressed the windows key and got back into the game, it would unfreeze for a couple seconds and then freeze again. the game was in fullscreen mode and i decided that that was the reason so i put it into windowed mode and it fixed it. i like fullscreen mode for games though. also, this just started happening in CS:GO too. any way i can fix it?

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Black screen when playing games on fullscreen.

Hi Syrius,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



To have clarity on this issue and guide you accordingly, kindly help us with the following information.

• Is the issue specific to a game or does it occur on all the games?
  
• Is the issue specific to only games or does it occur while playing full screen videos?
  

If the issue occurs while playing videos in full screen, you may want to uninstall and reinstall the video card drivers to see if it helps.

• Right click the Windows icon on the taskbar and choose
  Device manager.
  
• Expand Display Adapters, right click on your video card driver and choose
  Uninstall.
  
• Check the box Delete the driver software for this device.
  
• Reboot the machine for Windows to automatically reinstall the drivers.
  

If the issue is specific to games, it could be a compatibility issue. I suggest you to refer to the article
Make older programs compatible with this version of Windows and run the games
in compatibility mode to see if it helps.



If the issue persists, it could be due to the full screen optimization. As you’ve already updated the drivers, I would suggest you to disable the same and check if it works.

• Open Settings and go to System > Display.
  
• On the right pane, click on the Advanced graphics settings
  hyperlink.
  
• Uncheck Enable fullscreen optimizations
  and exit Settings.
  
• Restart the machine and see if the issue persists.
  

Let us know how it goes.

Regards,

 

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