Windows 10 Stuttering With Hardware Acceleration on with a Dual or Triple Monitor Setup

[owenslasher]

I currently have a triple monitors setup 60Hz, 144Hz and another 60Hz. My Graphics Card is a GTX 1070. When I play a youtube video with hardware acceleration enabled in my browser it'll start to cause stuttering. Changing my refresh rate of my 144Hz to 60Hz seems to fix this but is there any work arounds which allow me to have hardware acceleration enabled and still be able to use my monitor at 144Hz without stuttering. Troubleshooting I've tried: Running my 144Hz monitor as a factor of 60Hz, Running my second and third monitor on my iGPU (Didn't fix it). The only solution I've been able to find so far is to run my browser or any other hardware accelerated application either on my primary monitor or off on my second and third monitor. I'm running the latest version of Windows on Windows 10 and the Latest Nvidia Drivers. The last thing I could think to try would be to run my second and third monitor on another really cheap GPU. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

 

[Mark RM]

If it's connected by HDMI, you could try DP or the other way around. Little stuff like that always seem to bite us in the ass.

 

[owenslasher]

If it's connected by HDMI, you could try DP or the other way around. Little stuff like that always seem to bite us in the ass.

My 2nd and 3rd monitors only have DVI and HDMI my GPU however has 1 DVI, 1 HDMI and 3 Display Port. I currently have my 144Hz monitor plugged in through Display port so you think it's worth buying a HDMI or DVI to display port adapter?

 

[Mark RM]

I think the way you have it hooked up is optimal already. I think the issue you experiencing is something driver related or ...

Do you have anything running at all that is polling the nvapi ? I mean thing like GPUz or EVGA XOC, MSI afterburner, HWinfo etc? I've also seen this issue with discord running.