I've got two monitors, my main 144Hz for gaming and one 60Hz in portrait mode as my secondary monitor.
At first I noticed that my BIOS was showing up on the wrong monitor, the one that is sitting in portrait mode, which meant that I had to tilt my head 90 degrees to read. So I switched the cables. Now it showed up on my main monitor, great.
But when I got into Windows it showed my main monitor as monitor number 2, and my secondary as number 1. No problems I thought and set my main (2) as my "main display" in Windows 10.
After this I started noticing that all my games running in windowed or borderless mode were all locked to 60fps and I could not figure out why. VSYNC was not enabled in the games and Nvidia control panel was set to use the application setting. In fullscreen they worked fine.
Since I have a GSYNC compatible monitor and a new graphics card I had GSYNC enabled. So I tried disabling it. Now all my games were running in as high fps as the graphics card could push, even in windowed or borderless mode.
So the problem turns out to be that GSYNC uses the refresh rate of the monitor that is selected as number one in windows, meaning my old secondary 60Hz monitor. Even though I have set my the other monitor as my main display.
The fix was then to switch the display port cables once again, so that windows recognizes my 144hz monitor as display number 1, then that's what GSYNC will use as well.
The only problem now is that BIOS is again showing up on the incorrect monitor.
The reason why I am asking you if you know of a way to fix this is because it's a strange problem and kind of tedious to switch around cables depending on what I want to do.
Thank you in advance!
At first I noticed that my BIOS was showing up on the wrong monitor, the one that is sitting in portrait mode, which meant that I had to tilt my head 90 degrees to read. So I switched the cables. Now it showed up on my main monitor, great.
But when I got into Windows it showed my main monitor as monitor number 2, and my secondary as number 1. No problems I thought and set my main (2) as my "main display" in Windows 10.
After this I started noticing that all my games running in windowed or borderless mode were all locked to 60fps and I could not figure out why. VSYNC was not enabled in the games and Nvidia control panel was set to use the application setting. In fullscreen they worked fine.
Since I have a GSYNC compatible monitor and a new graphics card I had GSYNC enabled. So I tried disabling it. Now all my games were running in as high fps as the graphics card could push, even in windowed or borderless mode.
So the problem turns out to be that GSYNC uses the refresh rate of the monitor that is selected as number one in windows, meaning my old secondary 60Hz monitor. Even though I have set my the other monitor as my main display.
The fix was then to switch the display port cables once again, so that windows recognizes my 144hz monitor as display number 1, then that's what GSYNC will use as well.
The only problem now is that BIOS is again showing up on the incorrect monitor.
The reason why I am asking you if you know of a way to fix this is because it's a strange problem and kind of tedious to switch around cables depending on what I want to do.
Thank you in advance!