Gaming and watching movie at the same time

[Dreamstreet]

I've got myself a couple of moniters for my PC. I have a main one I use to play games on, while the other will be playing either Youtube, Netflix or VLC. But when I play games like Football Manager or WoW, it starts to lag.

Anyone got the answer to a problem like this, or a solution?

 

[jaguarskx]

That's because the graphics card is rendering the game and decoding the video for playback at the same time. Decoding video is rather demanding, but not as demanding as encoding video. Since you have two monitors it also means the graphics card needs to deal with higher resolution than with just one monitor. You need a more powerful graphics card if you want to do both at the same time with better performance.

 

[Dreamstreet]

That's because the graphics card is rendering the game and decoding the video for playback at the same time. Decoding video is rather demanding, but not as demanding as encoding video. Since you have two monitors it also means the graphics card needs to deal with higher resolution than with just one monitor. You need a more powerful graphics card if you want to do both at the same time with better performance.

My current graphic card is an 8GB, so shouldn't it be able to take this kind of normal thing?

 

[jaguarskx]

8GB of RAM is not much information.

I assume it is a GTX 1070 or GTX 1080 since those are the only GPUs that I know of which has 8GB of dedicated video RAM.

 

[Dreamstreet]

8GB of RAM is not much information.

I assume it is a GTX 1070 or GTX 1080 since those are the only GPUs that I know of which has 8GB of dedicated video RAM.

I have 16GB DDR3 ram, and the graphic card is 8GB XFX Radeon RX 480 XXX. But apparently it's only while playing Football Manager 2016 that the video lags. Any other game I've tried works fine.