Long story short, I recently 'upgraded' my PC and bought a new i7 4790K @4.00GHZ, new mobo (Maximus 7 Hero Asus ROG), 850W Power, EVGA 980 GTX TI, 32GB of RAM Corsair Vengeance I think.
I had someone help build it up for me.
So the problem is everytime I'm watching a video or stream(twitch) on my secondary monitor (the 60HZ one) my main monitor would get massive FPS drops when playing games. Even CS:GO (It would go from 300 FPS stable to around 25-40 literally unplayable). This happens to all games (H1Z1, Dota2, League of Legends, Rainbow Six Siege, etc).
My settings are not set to 'ultra' even in CS:GO most of them are set to low with exception of shader settings.
I've turned vsync off in the nvidia control panel and set my main monitor to 144 HZ and 2nd monitor on 60Hz. And the rest is default settings minus vsync off as mentioned above.
The main monitor (benq 2730T) is connected through DVI and the second monitor is connected through HDMI both to the GPU.
Now I've even called EVGA and NVIDIA seperately and firstly they mentioned that the problem might've been that the two monitors are on different refresh rate, however prior to 'upgrading' I had a EVGA GTX 670 and I didn't have any problem watching a stream and playing CS:GO (which is the most baffling to me as it is a FAR inferior card).
Secondly they told me that maybe if I hook up the 2nd monitor to my MOBO it would fix the issue, it didn't, infact it made it worse (I'd get even worse FPS drops)
Any idea on how to fix this? My friend said maybe my card is faulty, however when I'm not watching anything on my 2nd monitor, I can run any game pretty much on ultra and have a good 100-300 FPS even Ark. Pretty desperate as currently I was 'better' off with my 'old' setup than my upgraded PC as I love to watch streams and play games.
I've also tried this with multiple browsers and it's still happening, including turning off hardware acceleration in flash player and in chrome.
TLDR: Bought a 980 GTX TI and a 'super' computer, can't watch stream/video while playing games on a dual monitor setup, causing the game to drop from 300 FPS to 25-40 FPS.
I had someone help build it up for me.
So the problem is everytime I'm watching a video or stream(twitch) on my secondary monitor (the 60HZ one) my main monitor would get massive FPS drops when playing games. Even CS:GO (It would go from 300 FPS stable to around 25-40 literally unplayable). This happens to all games (H1Z1, Dota2, League of Legends, Rainbow Six Siege, etc).
My settings are not set to 'ultra' even in CS:GO most of them are set to low with exception of shader settings.
I've turned vsync off in the nvidia control panel and set my main monitor to 144 HZ and 2nd monitor on 60Hz. And the rest is default settings minus vsync off as mentioned above.
The main monitor (benq 2730T) is connected through DVI and the second monitor is connected through HDMI both to the GPU.
Now I've even called EVGA and NVIDIA seperately and firstly they mentioned that the problem might've been that the two monitors are on different refresh rate, however prior to 'upgrading' I had a EVGA GTX 670 and I didn't have any problem watching a stream and playing CS:GO (which is the most baffling to me as it is a FAR inferior card).
Secondly they told me that maybe if I hook up the 2nd monitor to my MOBO it would fix the issue, it didn't, infact it made it worse (I'd get even worse FPS drops)
Any idea on how to fix this? My friend said maybe my card is faulty, however when I'm not watching anything on my 2nd monitor, I can run any game pretty much on ultra and have a good 100-300 FPS even Ark. Pretty desperate as currently I was 'better' off with my 'old' setup than my upgraded PC as I love to watch streams and play games.
I've also tried this with multiple browsers and it's still happening, including turning off hardware acceleration in flash player and in chrome.
TLDR: Bought a 980 GTX TI and a 'super' computer, can't watch stream/video while playing games on a dual monitor setup, causing the game to drop from 300 FPS to 25-40 FPS.
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