With two monitors, is this normal? (Lag, stuttering)

[connorjiy]

Hello,
I have a GTX 780 ti running with my i7 4770k cpu. I have a playstation TV (monitor) as my main display via DVI, and a second monitor, a 46" Sony Bravia hooked up via HDMI.

Occasionally I will throw XBMC or a VLC movie/show on the TV under extended display for my wife to watch, I will (attempt) to play games during this every now and then. I noticed for many of them (Rome total war II, Skyrim etc) the movie/show will get extremely choppy, and/or the game becomes unplayable.

I have read that a much weaker video card would be able to handle movies and games at the same time, without issues at all, but they were running two monitors under 30" each.

Is this to be expected running the games I am running, or is there some settings I am missing somewhere?

Under my Nvidia Control panel, both monitors are set to 32 bit true color, and the same 60hz, 1080p settings.

The only difference would be the playstation TV has steroscopic 3d check box checked under the Windows resolution properties. I am not running 3-D programs or movies, but it's "recommended" under windows.

Anyway, any thoughts and ideas are as always appreciated. Thank you.

 

[photonboy]

You SHOULD be able to run things smoothly (game AND video).

I'm not quite sure where the problem is though so I guess you would have to try to enable/disable a few settings.

Other things to try:
1) Install K-Lite STANDARD then use Hardware Acceleration (if you don't do it correctly on setup, then make sure H.264, MPEG2, and VC1 are checked in the new media player, WMPC-HC under "options->Filters".

2) Games if FULLSCREEN I assume? (should be)

3) Run game with VSYNC ON, VSYNC OFF, and force Adaptive VSYNC (shouldn't matter though. I use Adaptive VSYNC).

4) HDTV is setup properly in the HDTV section?
- 1080p_NTSC@60Hz, then SCALING fix?

Summary:
I've never had problems myself even gaming on a six-year old laptop with a separate movie on the HDTV.

 

[connorjiy]

You SHOULD be able to run things smoothly (game AND video).

I'm not quite sure where the problem is though so I guess you would have to try to enable/disable a few settings.

Other things to try:
1) Install K-Lite STANDARD then use Hardware Acceleration (if you don't do it correctly on setup, then make sure H.264, MPEG2, and VC1 are checked in the new media player, WMPC-HC under "options->Filters".

2) Games if FULLSCREEN I assume? (should be)

3) Run game with VSYNC ON, VSYNC OFF, and force Adaptive VSYNC (shouldn't matter though. I use Adaptive VSYNC).

4) HDTV is setup properly in the HDTV section?
- 1080p_NTSC@60Hz, then SCALING fix?

Summary:
I've never had problems myself even gaming on a six-year old laptop with a separate movie on the HDTV.

I will certainly try the K-lite, Game is in full screen. VSync was off, but I can flip it, to play skyrim successfully I turned off the 3D option and it succeeded. Tried Rome TW II after that, it force closed VLC for some reason...so still in progress. I am going to check the tv here in a minute for its specific settings, thanks for the idea on that, I completely forgot it had it's whole own side of options.

Thanks for the ideas, as soon as I get home tomorrow I will play with your idea's and let you know how it goes.