So lately I've been having problems where I can't see my second monitor or it's visually frozen when I go into a fullscreen game. You might be thinking, oh there's threads about this and it's meant to happen but I don't believe it is anymore. For the longest time I could see everything going on my second monitor when playing games (in fullscreen) like discord for example. But now when I launch a fullscreen game my monitor will do one of the following things.
1: Go black and possibly show a window aero performance warning at some point
2: Second monitor visually freezes up so I can't see what's actually happening on my second monitor (no aero warning)
3: Everything is perfectly fine and I can see voice activity and everything from discord on the second monitor well playing fullscreen games (no aero warning)
Now I suspect it's Nvidia related as it started happening after I opened geforce experience one time. Those results listed above actually can change between each other sometimes when I alt-tab out and back into the game i'm playing. I've tried troubleshooting by going through the Nvidia settings but no such luck. I can tell you it works perfectly fine before and this isn't "as intended". Even though I have different resolution monitors worked 100% fine before this started. I haven't found a thread that solves this (some aren't the exact issue). This happens on most if not all fullscreen games. I doubt it's aero entirely as it worked before and would prefer to keep aero.
If anyone has a solid solution send it over! If you don't know anything about it, don't answer please.
Relevant Specs of PC (built last fall)
OS: Windows 7 Home 64bit
CPU: i7 6700K
GPU: GTX 970 STRIX x2 SLI
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 250GB SDD (boot drive), 3TB HDD, 300gb HDD
Displays: 1920x1080 60hz, 1600x900 60hz - Both connected VIA DVI cables to top GPU
UPDATE: Still seems to be tied to windows 7 Aero, stopped using wallpaper engine entirely and issues went away. However, recently it started happening again and i'm still not using wallpaper engine. I have transparency disabled but kept desktop composition since it feels weird without it. I've tried reinstalling graphics drivers but it doesn't change anything so it seems aero in general has issues that I can't seem to find any solution to.
1: Go black and possibly show a window aero performance warning at some point
2: Second monitor visually freezes up so I can't see what's actually happening on my second monitor (no aero warning)
3: Everything is perfectly fine and I can see voice activity and everything from discord on the second monitor well playing fullscreen games (no aero warning)
Now I suspect it's Nvidia related as it started happening after I opened geforce experience one time. Those results listed above actually can change between each other sometimes when I alt-tab out and back into the game i'm playing. I've tried troubleshooting by going through the Nvidia settings but no such luck. I can tell you it works perfectly fine before and this isn't "as intended". Even though I have different resolution monitors worked 100% fine before this started. I haven't found a thread that solves this (some aren't the exact issue). This happens on most if not all fullscreen games. I doubt it's aero entirely as it worked before and would prefer to keep aero.
If anyone has a solid solution send it over! If you don't know anything about it, don't answer please.
Relevant Specs of PC (built last fall)
OS: Windows 7 Home 64bit
CPU: i7 6700K
GPU: GTX 970 STRIX x2 SLI
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 250GB SDD (boot drive), 3TB HDD, 300gb HDD
Displays: 1920x1080 60hz, 1600x900 60hz - Both connected VIA DVI cables to top GPU
UPDATE: Still seems to be tied to windows 7 Aero, stopped using wallpaper engine entirely and issues went away. However, recently it started happening again and i'm still not using wallpaper engine. I have transparency disabled but kept desktop composition since it feels weird without it. I've tried reinstalling graphics drivers but it doesn't change anything so it seems aero in general has issues that I can't seem to find any solution to.
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