I seem to be running into some performance issues when outputting my video via HDMI out to a 1920x1080 monitor while gaming on my G3 17 laptop (laptop so I can game on my couch while wife watches TV).
Long story short, my games seem to run fine and smooth when gaming on my laptop screen. However, I seem to notice a drop in performance when outputting via hdmi to a 1920x1080 monitor or TV. I know my laptop is a low/mid-range gaming machine at best, so I'm not expecting to run things on high and still get excellent FPS.
However, even in medium to medium-high setting, my games seem to experience FPS drops and slowdowns where they don't normally happen. This isn't a short term thing either. I can play a game (ie Path of Exile) for 30 minutes fine without slowdowns. However, once connected to a monitor via hdmi, the laptop seems to have issue running the game at the same performance under similar conditions.
I have tried extending display, duplicating display, and turning off laptop display to no effect. Is performance slowdown due to hdmi limitations a thing or am I imagining things?
PC specs:
Dell G3 17
i5-8300 @ 2.30 GHz
16gb RAM
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6gb
Games running on Samsung T5 SSD connected via USB-C
Long story short, my games seem to run fine and smooth when gaming on my laptop screen. However, I seem to notice a drop in performance when outputting via hdmi to a 1920x1080 monitor or TV. I know my laptop is a low/mid-range gaming machine at best, so I'm not expecting to run things on high and still get excellent FPS.
However, even in medium to medium-high setting, my games seem to experience FPS drops and slowdowns where they don't normally happen. This isn't a short term thing either. I can play a game (ie Path of Exile) for 30 minutes fine without slowdowns. However, once connected to a monitor via hdmi, the laptop seems to have issue running the game at the same performance under similar conditions.
I have tried extending display, duplicating display, and turning off laptop display to no effect. Is performance slowdown due to hdmi limitations a thing or am I imagining things?
PC specs:
Dell G3 17
i5-8300 @ 2.30 GHz
16gb RAM
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6gb
Games running on Samsung T5 SSD connected via USB-C
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