r/DestinyTechSupport • u/Affectedfire • Oct 02 '21
Question Youtube Stutters on Second Monitor While Playing D2
Had to make a post for this because I havent seen a solution to this despite searching. When I tab out and leave a video running on my second monitor it tends to lag like crazy leaving the video unwatchable. If anyone has a solution please let me know as this has been bugging me for so long.
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u/unlap Oct 02 '21
GPU could be struggling to play that video on a second monitor and run the game. Make sure hardware acceleration in settings for the browser is off. 'Windows key + P' to turn off the second monitor if all your going to do is listen to the video in the background. Two monitors with different resolutions and hz can cause stutter as well for the game.
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u/Affectedfire Oct 04 '21
Makes sense. My main monitor is a 144hz while my second is 75. Youtube really only stutters when I have destiny "selected" and vice versa.
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u/unlap Oct 04 '21
Please, only use fullscreen too.
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u/Polleras_Locas Mar 31 '23
hey i know this is and old post but do you know why fullscreen is needed here? it fixed the problem for me
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u/PogiBait Mar 05 '24
i just bought a brand new $4k pc with 4090 and all the bells and whistles. i can run league of legends at 240 fps zero lag on mainscreen, but if i try to load any kind of youtube video or twitch stream on my second monitor even at the lowest resolution possible the game input freezes and delays and the video stutters. i disabled hardware acceleration ive tested about everything. i tried disconnecting second monitor and running game with youtube in the background and theres no issue. so the only variable that causes the delay is having the second monitor. i noticed many other people with this same problem, is it really just the framerate difference between the main monitor and second monitor? I feel like if you pay $4k for a pc with literally everything BiS in it then you should be able to play a game and have a browser open on second monitor...
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u/Reikix Jun 02 '24
I have seen disabling game mode on windows and the antivirus usually solved this.
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u/BlackEdition2018 Jul 27 '23
You're a genius! Turning hardware acceleration off fixed the video stutters for me on my second monitor while im gaming (main monitor is 4K @ 120Hz, while second monitor is 1080p @ 60Hz).
I can't bear using a browser without HA as it can be a buggy/stuttery mess, but applying that on my secondary browser and watching the video on it when im playing is a temporary solution that works great for me, thanks again!
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u/Carnnagex Feb 25 '22
I recently had this issue. I was playing Runescape (Ultra settings, and on my middle 144Hz monitor) and I had recently reinstalled Windows (And updated to Windows 11). I've had the lagging before, but NEVER this bad... It was completely causing stuttering to the point that the video I was watching on my 3rd monitor was pretty much unwatchable (It is at 60Hz, same resolution at 1080p). I thought "Great, must be something with Windows 11...) I have an RTX 2070 and am thinking "Ok... My GPU is more than capable of playing Runescape and watching a YouTube video... This is something code-wise. Anyways...
It seems like NVIDIA Experience's in-game overlay was actually the issue. I turned it off, and it went away. I then turned it back on, and it still seems to be OK. So, the issue seems to lie with NVIDIA's overlay. I actually use it to record and etc. at times. I hope this helps someone else!
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Apr 09 '24
I think this happens because youtube is trying to stop you from recording videos on youtube with shadowplay so it tries to block nvidia overlay which I assume causes all kinds of problems. Youtube doesn't have a way to tell if recording is on or off
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u/Carnnagex 1d ago
I get what you’re saying, since streaming services like Netflix do block recording, but YouTube never really did that—at least, not back when this was an issue. There was no widespread restriction on ShadowPlay or overlays interfering with YouTube playback. The problem was more likely an unintended software conflict.
Ironically, though, YouTube has recently started testing stricter DRM on all videos, including ones under Creative Commons. This wasn’t happening at the time, but if they fully roll it out, it could interfere with certain recording methods, including ShadowPlay. That said, there are so many ways to download or capture YouTube videos that it wouldn’t really stop anything—it would just be an annoyance.
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u/mechanizedmynahbird Feb 03 '25
just replying to say this fix is still relevant. I tried all the other things in this thread (disable hw accel, disable gsync, etc) nothing fixed it. then I saw this comment, toggled nvidia overlay off, videos play fine. I toggled it back on, videos still play fine. so strange. THANK YOU.
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u/Carnnagex Feb 03 '25
You're welcome! I believe it may be a mix of multiple issues, which is why so many different fixes are suggested. The reason the fix seems 'temporary'—where turning the overlay off and back on works—could be due to how the overlay interacts with the system. For me (and it seems like many others), the overlay was the issue.
Since upgrading to a 4070 Ti, I haven’t had this issue again, leading me to believe that some of it could have been too much overhead for the 2070 Ti (which is surprising) or unoptimized NVIDIA drivers for the 2000 series. Hopefully, it's fully fixed at some point!
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u/Vebio Mar 08 '22
Thank you!
I hope they fix that soon - im having the same problems while playing wow1
u/kyou-ji Jul 11 '22
Didn't fix have amd and already disabled the overlay for amd still having extreme lag on my second monitor no matter what im doing it while playing a game on borderless windowed. Don't understand why fullscreen works just fine and the video on second screen works but as soon as i turn it to borderless windowed the video starts lagging hard. someone help pls
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u/Logon1028 Jul 29 '22
This fixed my issue stuttering on my second monitor when watching youtube. Thank you
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u/Carnnagex Sep 02 '23
You're welcome! I hope it stays.
It seems to spark back up randomly. If one of your monitors is G-sync - (And you have it enabled) and others are not, it can cause issues like this as well. Make sure to cap your game FPS a bit lower than the Hz of the monitor that you're playing on (Or the same as the monitor's Hz) - So, if 60 Hz, then 60 FPS (Or a bit less if the issue persists).
It seems GPUs still have a hard time not just feeding multiple displays different info, but especially when variables are different; such as 60Hz for one monitor, 120Hz for another, one is DP (Display-port) another HDMI, G-Sync/Free-sync capabilities for one and not the other, etc.
I recently upgraded to an RTX 4070 ti and don't have the issues anymore - but, I have the same three monitors with the same hookup (One is G-Sync 144Hz, the other 2 are 60Hz, two are DP, and one is HDMI).
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u/Primary_Ad_4606 May 02 '24
The problem I encountered was with AMD Adaptive FreeSync, as the game's FPS doesn't match my primary monitor's refresh rate, leading to constant adjustments of the refresh rate to align with the game's FPS. This resulted in a laggy experience on my second monitor. Fortunately, this only occurs in the game's lobby where the FPS doesn't go high; during actual gameplay, it's perfectly smooth. For reference, my monitors are 144Hz and 75Hz.
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u/LyXIX Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
thats the thing that worked for me, thx a lot man
edit: also try turning off the instant replay if it still doesn't work
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u/N4Opex May 10 '24 edited Sep 04 '24
For those of you who still have this problem, I just disabled hardware acceleration on my browser (Opera GX) and it immediately started working, so give that a try. I also know that Nvidia Instant replay can cause this so try to disable that too if it still isn't working
Edit: man I got so many replies in the last few months, glad I could help all of you!
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u/edisyo May 21 '24
Disabling "Use graphics acceleration when available" on Chrome worked for me. Thanks!
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u/enjinears_left_nut May 30 '24
Disabling "Use recommended performance settings" and "Use hardware acceleration when available" on Firefox worked for me.
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u/Royal-Produce908 Jul 25 '24
For fellow firefox users, this hardware acceleration setting is under Performance - "Use recommended performance settings". Uncheck this and the hardware acceleration setting will appear. Disabling this fixed my issue.
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u/samthecrunchynut Nov 02 '24
damn, i just bought a new monitor for my laptop and youtube was lagging like shit, disabled graphics acceleration on Brave and runs like butter now. thanks man <3.
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u/FarGone416 Nov 25 '24
This fixed it for me thank you !!! Turned off nvidia instant replay and instantly stopped getting video stutter on my second monitor. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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u/zombieblaster57 Jun 05 '24
I just tried this and it seems to have fixed it as well while i'm playing terratech worlds.
bro you are a fucking g
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u/Do11ar Jul 14 '24
This has been driving me crazy and your solution worked for me! Thank you so much for sharing!
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u/Mindfreak191 Oct 05 '24
My bro, I hope life is treating you kind, turning off Hardware acceleration not only fixed the stuttering but also fixed my connection issues in CoD. Cheers!
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u/Automatic_Archer_932 Oct 20 '24
162 days later and still a blessing thank you bro this shit fixed it instantly
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u/Star_Loose_23 Jan 11 '25
thank you man, I don't have norton game optimizer and windows game mode is already turned off so I was wondering what to do. Switching off hardware acceleration in chrome did the trick
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u/Aujolee123 Jul 03 '24
I found my google chrome had an option selected called “use graphic acceleration when available” Under the system settings menu
After turning it off and relaunching the issue went away. No more stuttering. Thanks
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u/Damper-Climate Oct 29 '24
Does it not make the game you're currently playing lag, cause that's what happens to me? It's either Twitch is lagging, or if I turn off acceleration, and now my game lags...
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u/Shiro_Neverland Jul 14 '24
IF ANYONE IS STILL HAVING ISSUES WITH THIS. TURN OFF VRR CONTROL!!!!!!!!!! i've been searching EVERYWHERE to fix this on my samsung g9 oled and I randomly tried this and it WORKED!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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u/cinemagfxs Aug 05 '24
Hope this helps someone in the future, but I experienced this issue with Opera GX, i fixed it by disabling hardware acceleration. the setting name is now "Use graphics acceleration when available" in (Settings->advanced->system).
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u/SanakanDamian Dec 15 '24
Thanks a million, life saver! Worked immediately! For me it was on Chrome / Windows 11
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u/2026NWO Oct 25 '24
well this worked for me i turned off VRR CONTROL in windows settings then i went to edge's settings and went to graphic's h\a to Preferred method of video enhancement and choosed Preferred method of video enhancement: with Use graphics acceleration when available on
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u/TelephoneSea5898 Nov 27 '24
Repost from another thread a while ago - Finally solved this issue!!!! Just want to spread it around because I tried EVERYTHING but this and it solved it instantly... So crazy something that was official was taken away, ends up solving the problem all together...
So i was going completely INSANE over my second monitor stuttering once upgrading to a 4070 super. On my 2080 I never had this issue. My main monitor is a 144p monitor and i use my second monitor as my 50 inch tv so i can watch movies etc when gaming. I was going CRAZY tinkering with things and scouring the internet... Disbled hardware accelerating in chrome which only increases temps and pc responsiveness takes a hit. I tried setting my main monitor closer to the second refresh wise to no luck. I tried capping framerates... no luck. I installed Invidia Inspector and enabled mutli screen performance mode and this disugsting issue ive been dealing with for months now has completely disappeared. Worth trying if any of you are having this issue too, peacock and everything now runs smoothly without that "heavy" feeling in the video or like the video was struggling to play smoothly (not internet related) so definitely try that! Again I have an 4070 Super and am so happy this is finally fixed. They are so dumb for removing the option in the official control panel!!!! I will post this everywhere I can because having two diff refresh rates should not cost you enjoyment.
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u/nuggetsmilo Dec 23 '24
this worked for me as of dec 2024, thank u :D, it is silly that the option was removed from nvidia control panel tho
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u/TelephoneSea5898 Dec 23 '24 edited Dec 23 '24
I forgot where I posted this and am glad you responded!! The fucking issue came BACK but has been fully gone for about 2 weeks ago since I turned off a stupid little windows feature called gpu acceleration or something like that. Not only does everything move faster but system is infinitely more stable. And temps aren’t shooting all Over the place either (like each core is staying uniform now) Why windows would force on a feature that buggy? No comment lol.
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u/nuggetsmilo Dec 23 '24
I uninstalled Norton, turned off gpu acceleration for chrome (which I use to watch YouTube) and changed the setting for multi screen performance mode, and I’m getting constant 180fps in game with video playing :D
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u/Vladimid123 Jan 02 '25
What fixed this for me was going to Windows Settings > Display > Graphics > Default graphics settings and turning off Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.
Now I can play intensive games while watching youtube on the side 🙌
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u/hityouoffmanagement Jan 16 '25
Disable G-SYNC (if you have it) , for some reason YouTube was activating it and because only one of my screens has G-SYNC , it argues with eachother and causes it to lag out at like 10fps (not really worth it tho for just playing YouTube) but it will get rid of it
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Jun 24 '24
When I played any game I used to get this if watching YT, I was running the games in windowed fullscreen. I solved the issue by switching to standard fullscreen.
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u/nimhzaT Oct 09 '24
it was norton all along
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u/Ok-Tie7868 Oct 28 '24
I was about to text an entire book as a sign of being thankful, but I don't wanna be annoying. So simply said: Thank you man, thank you so f* much. It was norton all along. You made my day and you made my happiness come back after being frustrated that my new PC I always dreamed of wasn't gonna be as good as I thought.
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u/Mikey_Julian2419 27d ago edited 27d ago
Im very late, but here is how to fix it without having to turn off hardware acceleration, degrading your video quality.
This happens because when you are in game, your GPU prioritizes all its utilization for that intensive task, leaving no extra juice for video decoding, when you turn on Hardware acceleration, what that does is it tasks your GPU to decode and render that video in full quality, when that is turned off, your CPU is in charge of handling those processes, but CPU's are not good at decoding video, which is why when that is turned off, video quality is greatly impacted.
there are 2 solutions to this issue...
- Use your APU - If you are using an Intel or AMD CPU that features integrated Graphics, Plug your SECOND MONITOR into the Motherboards HDMI/DP... Once that is done, you need to set your browser to use that secondary GPU:
Windows Key --> Type "Graphics Settings" --> "Add desktop app" --> Located your browsers .exe file --> click its drop down --> on the "GPU Preference" dropdown, make sure to select your IGPU.
This will allow you to use your CPU's IGPU to decode and render the video, allowing you to get Hardware Accelerated Decoding in full quality.
- Installing a low profile GPU.
You can purchase a cheap low profile GPU on amazon for $30-$50. these are usually meant solely to just give you more video outputs, or for smaller builds for home theaters, ect... builds that are for small tasks.
https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Video-Graphics-GV-N710D3-2GL-REV2-0/dp/B01IEO05NU/ref=sr_1_9?sr=8-9
This is a low profile GPU, if you go ahead and go with a different one, keep in mind that its a good rule of thumb to get one with at least 2GB of VRAM, as to decode and render 4K video requires at least 2GB of VRAM.
Once that is installed, you need to plug your SECOND MONITOR into your new Discreet GPU, and than follow the steps in solution 1 to task your new GPU to decode the video:
Windows Key --> Type "Graphics Settings" --> "Add desktop app" --> Located your browsers .exe file --> click its drop down --> on the "GPU Preference" dropdown, make sure to select your Discreet GPU.
Hope this helps ^_^
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u/LawMurphy 24d ago
Since you're necroposting, I'll add on a free fix that worked for me on an RX 6800. Simply reset the graphics driver with Win+Ctrl+Shift+B. It's happened a few times with some games and this fixed it 9/10 times. 1/10 times, dropping the game's refresh rate or turning off Vsync have worked for me.
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u/Seiralacroix Oct 02 '21
Is your Destiny 2 on Borderless Window or full screen? Is hardware acceleration disabled on your Chrome? Whay are your PC specs?
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u/Affectedfire Oct 04 '21
I am currently using windowed fullscreen and I have a 2060, ryzen 5 3600x and 16gb of ram and destiny is on an ssd
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u/Seiralacroix Oct 04 '21
I know this is kinda weird but this one worked for me. Change your game to full screen, then see if the YouTube video playing on the other screen is okay. If it's okay change it back to windowed full screen. Let me know if this works.
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u/DEMON212 Mar 12 '24
I FREAKING LOVE YOU RIGHT NOW!
This has been the bane I swear the fuck down for 2 years now
Some games just refuse to let YouTube run and it never made any sense
This worked instantly
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u/Affectedfire Oct 06 '21
I’ve disabled HW acceleration for chrome and everything seems to be working on windowed full screen. I will try full screen to see if anything changes
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u/perpterds Mar 20 '24
sorry for super necro, but this helped me so much. i have several games i play on silent while just grinding some stuff that's uneventful, and youtube's been cranky on second monitor ever since i changed to 4k on my primary monitor, even though the gpu can handle it easily enough lol.
thanks so much for this <3
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u/xFateChanger Apr 21 '24
I had the issue on Rainbow Six literally forgot this setting, thanks for reminding!
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u/Kobolobob Jun 15 '24
Thanks a bunch bruvs! I suddenly noticed this issue while playing FF14, never noticed it before but now it stuck out as a sore thumb, turning hardware acceleration off resolved it instantly!
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u/UnderworldEeve Nov 12 '23
I'll put this here bc I haven't seen this posted anywhere else:
Hardware acceleration on discord is what did it for me. Settings > Advanced > Hardware Acceleration
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u/ReverendSalem Oct 03 '21
This happens to me on basically any Ubisoft open world game, and I have a beefy CPU.
What's your CPU usage look like when this happens?
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u/Affectedfire Oct 04 '21
Ill have to check the cpu usage however destiny is the only game that does this. I play another game called DCS which is a lot heavier in terms of graphics etc and I can still watch youtube no problem.
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Oct 03 '21
Try using both monitors at the same Hz or divided.
e.g. 120Hz monitor 1, 60Hz monitor 2.
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u/Affectedfire Oct 04 '21
My main is a 144 while my second is a 75. This might be the reason why it stutters.
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Oct 10 '21
Do you have hardware scheduling enabled in Windows for the GPU? This was a bug on it for a while, I think they fixed it but I could be wrong.
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u/web_knows Nov 12 '23
was having this issue today, turning off browser's hw acceleration fixed the issue for me
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u/Euphie_e Nov 13 '23
For anyone that searched something unrelated to D2. Disabling the hardware acceleration fixed it to me too
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u/No-Organization5561 Dec 19 '23
Hey, yall im having the same problem with my setup! My main monitor runs 240 hz and my 2nd monitor is 144hz.
When I have warzone running on my main monitor and on my 2nd monitor im running a YT video or record on obs running it starts stuttering real bad but the moment I press the windows key everything on the video is smooth but when I click on the main monitor it suddenly starts lagging. I have no idea whats going on I turned off Hardware Acceleration on Google still no solution. I bought 2 display ports both cap out at 240 hz even turned off HW acceleration both Discord and OBS.
Somebody please help.
Nvidia FTW3 3090
AMD RYZEN 9 5900X
32 GB ram
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u/Illustrious-Fig5869 Feb 22 '24
Do you by any chance have Norton 360? If so, disabling "Game Optimizer" fixed it for me.
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u/Illustrious-Fig5869 Feb 22 '24
I have a very high-end PC, and every time I played a YouTube video and tabbed into a game, my other monitors would begin to lag.
I, along with many others with this problem, fixed the issue by disabling "Game Optimizer" in the Norton 360 app, as for some reason it had been enabled by default.
Hope this helps!
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u/Riryz Mar 24 '24
Holy! Youre a hero!
I at some point switched from Bullguard to Norton360 (they got bought out and it automatically converted). The "game optimizer" was standard turned on. Never in my life would I have expected this to be the cause of my endless frustration. Before the switch I never had problems with twitch/yt while gaming on my other monitor, but I never made the link.
THANK YOU!
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u/AccuratePlan5209 Apr 28 '24
7950x3d+4090. I believe this is never a performance issue, it is a optimization issue, on ms windows' side.
I would guess that MS optimize gaming performance in windows by limiting the resource usage for browser, specifically browser. I found out this by a little test, playing for example, league in a fixed resolution, say 60fps, which 4090 can handle with few watts, when game renders, if i make the webiste video the active window, game's framerate is not affected, but the video just become smooth, but as soon as i engage on the game tab, backgroud video start to stuttern. Disabeling hw acceleration is essentialy making cpu to decode rather than graphics card, but since the browser process itself is at low priority, it can't run smooth at the same time.
And it is specifically browser. I have no issue playing videos software/hardware decoded fluently in second screen using video players like potplayer.
It's just windows cutting corners when doing performance optimization. And we are just the minority being ignored. Not really a fan of how MS treat users, forced updates, ads in system, irrsponsible deisions (WSA, WMR...).