2nd Monitor drops FPS and just freezes

DanB1992

DanB1992

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Hi everyone,

I have noticed for the past couple weeks now that whenever I am using 1 of my monitors for gaming, the other 1 just takes a nose dive in fps and will almost freeze at times.
I am using 2 Samsung S24D590L monitors and I never had this issue on my old pc but it's happened since getting this new 1.

Things such as having a video going on YouTube, as long as my cursor is on the monitor with the video playing it's fine, the second I move cursor over to the other monitor and click to interact with that monitor, the fps drops and the video will stutter and eventually freeze. WoW Classic is the main game I play, so i'm not sure if it's a problem with all games or just with WoW.

If anybody has any advice it would really help me out, thank you
 
DanB1992 said:
Hi everyone,

I have noticed for the past couple weeks now that whenever I am using 1 of my monitors for gaming, the other 1 just takes a nose dive in fps and will almost freeze at times.
I am using 2 Samsung S24D590L monitors and I never had this issue on my old pc but it's happened since getting this new 1.

Things such as having a video going on YouTube, as long as my cursor is on the monitor with the video playing it's fine, the second I move cursor over to the other monitor and click to interact with that monitor, the fps drops and the video will stutter and eventually freeze. WoW Classic is the main game I play, so i'm not sure if it's a problem with all games or just with WoW.

If anybody has any advice it would really help me out, thank you
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You can try disabling hardware accel in the browser or if you have an nvidia GPU there may be some multi display performance mode options in the NV control panel you can adjust?
 
Ok, so looking up those monitors they are bascially office monitors not gaming monitors at all, which is fine but what I do notice is that they only have HDMI ports (and VGA but yea ...no, just no), the GPU you have only has one HDMI output so out of interest, how are you connecting these two monitors exactly ? I cannot see any mention of any kind of VRR support, so Freesync or G-sync support on them either, which again isn't surprising given they are office monitors so that shouldn't be a factor here at least, although quite a few office monitors do actually support Freesync they just don't always mention it.#

Slightly off-topic and not really at all relevent to your issue, but, I would like to say that your GPU is being held back a lot by those monitors, it's capable of giving you so much more than those monitors will allow, you could get a much better experience if you were to give it a 1440P high refresh (144/165hz) monitor for example, I'm sure you know this and of course this costs money, but, I would just like to mention it anyway.
 
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