Multiple Monitors Are KILLING Your Gaming Performance! Here's How You Fix It
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I wasn't even looking for this answer! Was definitely having this issue and low and behold you popped up in my feed and saved the day!
Same. I noticed hardware acceleration messes everything up years ago, but overtime you tend to forget to shut it off after clean installing your pc and whatnot. Glad I found the answer to why it messes everything up. I have a tv as one of my monitors that runs in 60hz and my other to monitors run in 144hz so that explains it.
Thanks alot for this tip!
I quite frequently have video playing in the other monitor while i play, and i noticed that either my game would lag or the video would drop to 480p.
Interestingly, i did not have this problem with my old PC. Recently upgraded from Gtx1060 into 6800xt, i7 4770k into R5 7600x....well anyway, this tip worked wonders.
Bro is multitasking
DUDE! Thanks so much! You got a new sub here. I've been having issues running my RX 5700 with dual monitors. If I game on one and have a video playing on the other my gpu clock would fluctuate from 0 to max gpu utilization would be all over the place. Turning off hardware acceleration seems to have fixed it!
Short, concise and helpful. Thanks :)
You’re welcome!
I’d be careful doing this, depending on your CPU this could make things worse as this adds a significant load to your CPU to play video as it does it without any decoding help from the gpu
You are right! it made it worse!
@@DittyBitty69 13700k good for this?
@@seiram2404 doing it on my 10700k, been playing games fine with youtube on the other screen
@@seiram2404 Just go with a 13900k
@@seiram2404 very bad cpu so no bro
Omg, thank you so much, you solved my problem!
I've been having this issue for a long time and could've never imagined it was the refresh rate that was causing it. I have a decent enough PC and this was so annoying.
Thank you for posting this video 🎉. You have a new subscriber. Keep up the great 👍 work..
Short and sweet. Love it!!
Thankyou for the tip... disabling h/w accelerator in browser has helped a lot with extended monitor.
Of all the tutorials and multiple tech channels in YT. You are the first one I see mentions the hardware acceleration. Thank you this fix all my issues with the micro stuttering.
Glad this video was helpful!
Did you turn it on or off?
keep it on if you dont game while using ur browser @@crabbynebula
I want to point out hardware accelerated event scheduling also effects this, you can run hardware acceleration on your browser and discord with that disabled.
hardware acceleration basically uses more of your GPU for running the programs vs more of your CPU. HA off = more CPU load vs HA on = more GPU load. It's really going to depend on what you need when and where.
However, back on the scheduler note if you use DLSS 3 in games (not 2 but 3) it requires the scheduler to be enabled.
G'day from Australia.
Just stumbled across this video by accident, and thought it'd fix my stuttering issue while gaming. I use FireFox, and turned off Hardware Acceleration as you suggested, and UFO Test Refresh Rate shows it actually worse when I run something like a RUclips video on my other monitor. Going to turn it back on and see what happens.
My Monitors are a Phantom Gaming 165Hz 1440P 32" and a Phillips 75Hz 1080P 27".
I've subbed to your channel, and looking forward to checking out some more of your videos.
Straight to the point, great video dude
Make sure to go into settings on the PC itself and set your monitor refresh rates accordingly. I have x2 165hz and x1 240hz monitor. Never had any issues and i use one pc to game and stream at the same time with obs running and the stream and discord all running.
Thank you, this helped me a ton!
thank you so much! i was hopeless, i just wanted to watch a movie while gaming and my main monitor started stuttering so thank you so much for this amazing tip
good video! really well explained things
That last minute decision for the led fans was definitely the way to go on that pc!
Definitely agree. Will be doing a dedicated video on that PC soon!
I post this in a different comment, for OBS I have no idea if it works, but for browsers like edge if, put a folder open from the main monitor with a width of 3 or 4 pixels above / inside the secondary monitor, the browser will stop exploding, although there are times that even so it will do it.
Hey, since i also got that nzxt case - you can remove the two coolers in the front because they wont do anything at all :) inside that case only the two rear fans will make a difference because in the front the holes are placed badly and air would need to be pulled in at an angle to actually do smth :)
This is the same reason why I was thinking about just getting two of the exact same monitor since I'm in the market for a dual monitor setup.
I’d just get one monitor, much more responsive and there’s no gap obviously. You can always get a large monitor, idk why some people get multiple screens to game tbh, that’s not the best solution
@@frozenfirestixi want things open next to my game, single monitor is unusable as soon as you try multiple monitors
It'll definitely save you a lot of headaches. Even on Windows it's been kinda trash having a multi monitor setup with monitors running different refresh rates. But at least vsync works correctly there.
@firestix Got the same mindset once, once i got a second monitor i actually game now more. Its just way more pleasant to have a second screen. Its also very practical if you are stuck inside a game. Just typ in youtube and you can follow the guide directly
I can't imagine working with just one monitor, and thing its also so dirt cheap. You don't need a expensive monitor as a second screen
I even seen setups who use their smartphone as a second screen, or their tablet
This is why for years I use two browsers. One for everything with hardware acceleration off as modern CPUs are far more capable these days of doing it all themselves. And in another browser with hardware acceleration on for when I need it
Hello! I have 144 Hz and 60 Hz and sometimes (mostly when im gaming) my both displays just start flickering and pixsels are all over displays. Then i need to restart pc from behind to work again. Is there a fix for this. It also happens sometimes when im alt tab or chaning resolution
It's totally a refresh issue. I'd follow the steps I spelled out in the video, but a I'd also recommend to not run games natively in Full screen where you have to alt tab out. Run them in windowed fullscreen as it still counts as a window and shouldn't impact refresh rate issues. Make sure to disable hardware acceleration on the items you plan to use on the second monitor and turn off your preview window for your streaming software.
@@DarkenedCyrus Thank you! I will try
THANK YOU BRO!!!!!!!!
Was wondering my shit started lagging all of a sudden, and this fixed it!!!
Thanks bro 👍
That was a good one! Subscribed :)
I don't have performance issues, but my 2nd monitor recently started going black for a second - randomly. I turned off the hardware acceleration to see if that might help...idk
thanks man! i love you
thank you soo much m you fixed my problem
Question: Were you making sure to use different browsers for the testufo site and the video?
Just a quick tip, if you are turning off hardware acceleration this will put all the browsers load on your your CPU instead of your GPU if your CPU is better than your GPU then you can turn this on, if you CPU isn't very good I'd leave it check on.
Ryzen 7 5800x3d and 3070ti what do you think
Honestly this, this is why these settings usually exist. Peoples gpus are usually stronger than their cpus in most cases nowadays.
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@@suavelifestyle9094 Depends on your Resolution as well, if you play at 4k turn it off, if you play at 1080, turn it on, if you play at 1440 They're both viable, 3070ti and 5800x3d are quite strong but maybe leave it off
Nice. I use one 144hzas main and two 75Hz monitors. Never saw any problemsin ages
Thanks i love when get perfect video like that
This whole time it was my monitors? And here I thought I had to upgrade my Ram from 16 to 32 to run obs and game at the same time. I even changed my fps limit setting on HELLDIVERS 2 to 60 fps, thinking that would fix the problem. And Subscribed!!!👍
Does using power toys fancy zones with a single monitor LGCX 55 inch cause stuttering during streaming or recording to OBX?
Omg I will have to try this out! But I wonder what coses the issue exactly.
thanks you fixed my issue!
YES! This fixed my issue. Just added 2 more 1440p monitors to my 3080ti for a total of 3 and couldn't figure out why RUclips full screened in 1440p was stuttering like CRAZY while my cpu/gpu/memory were all barely at 10% to 20% utilization with my temps very low! Big time appreciate the video! I knew about turning off hardware acceleration.... totally forgot to turn it off with a clean install of windows.... Thanks again!
Love this!
Love this video! Hope the week rocks! Happy Monday! @@DarkenedCyrus
Hey, I recently bought a new gaming PC and have a dual monitor setup. Everything was fine at first but it seems like my dual monitor is causing my games to crash. Is there a way troubleshoot to figure out what the issue might be? Sorry might be a easy question but im new to the PC gaming space.
You saved my life , thank you very much :) my animated overlays on obs were lagging as hell......i got my first 2k-165hz ips monitor , 5 days ago, and i use my old 60hz monitor as a "second" one, and i thought it was lack of ram, cpu, or even gpu. I was panicked :D Now the problems is better for 85%....maybe the rest 15% is hardware, probably i should upgrade my RAM (i have a ryzen 7 1700, 16gb ram on 2400mhz and a good old gtx 1070oc (not oc by me, its oc by default). :)
try gettin 16 or 32 gigs of 3000mhz ram
hi, if u dont mind me asking what mic are u using & other things u have to have ur mic setup. it has perfect sound quality. wanted to copy ur mic setup. thank you . :)
When it comes to using a secondary display alongside a laptop, can you set the main laptop to use the main GPU and have the onboard Intel GPU handle the secondary monitor? If so how do you set that up?
If there are crossbar ICs which select the source for each output, you can configure them from BIOS set up. The crossbars are configured once by the POST process during boot, and from then on the displays are connected where they are.
Most laptops do not have crossbar ICs and are hard configured using internal solder jumpers. The built-in display in these is always connected to the main processor's iGPU. The external output is generally connected exclusively to the dedicated GPU if the GPU chip is installed. In variants of the same laptop without dedicated GPU, it's rewired to the iGPU.
Beware of logic paths. If you have a browser on external display (connected to dGPU) which uses GPU acceleration, it will perform rendering on the iGPU since the dGPU is not selected for the browser process and then capture and bus copy the result over to the dGPU, which is as silly as it sounds. But if the dGPU is displaying only a game anyway, don't worry.
Laptops and heterogeneous GPU systems in general are a special kind of hell.
@@SianaGearz You are too smart for me. I'm not worthy! But it sounds like a lot of words that means "no". =P
thank you so much for this info
I’m using 2 Neo G9s and an LG C3 for my monitors and having no issues here. But I’ll have to try these tips.
thank you i never knew about hardware accelerations
You’re welcome!
i already disable HW acceleration in Chrome but the stuttering issue is still in there. But this issue is absent when using Microsoft Edge. It looks like Edge have better handling at GPU rather than Chrome.
Have you tried any other chromium based browsers? Brave is a good one
wasn't having a problem but i was curious what turning off hardware acceleration would do, and it actually made me start to have stutters
Before ultrawide monitors were available I always run 3x identical screens and never had issues.
I had this issue too, back 8 years ago.- then i found out about graphics plateauing. so basically multi-monitor users should mix monitors ONLY as multiplications. IE, 60hz+120hz, 60hz+240hz.. this will help to mitigate the issue SOMEWHAT. but then it's just microsoft programing issue.
@@pinkgrognak I have 165hz main and 144hz second monitor. Playing youtube on second monitor and checking hz on main screen is rock solid 165hz. I have AMD gpu. No problems here.
Thanks for the video. I have 2 240hz screen. Can i leave them both at 240hz and do not touch hardware acceleration?
Thank you my guy you the goat
i have 3 monitors 165hz 164hz and 144hz would it be best if I set them all to 120hz so they all match? would that help with performance? 2 of the monitors are 1080p one is 1440p.
Is there any problem with RTX 4090 with two 240hz monitors?
Hello. I’m testing it right now on my main gaming pc but it’s picking up the hertz from the 60hz lol I’m I doing something wrong been dealing with this problem where my obs is lagging when using a elgato capture card I’d appreciate any help! Thank you
Hello, i play on triple screen simracing ( 3 identical 240hz monitors ) plugged in displayport and use a fourth screen ( in reality a 60hz hd tv ) plugged in hdmi. The 4 screens are pluged into my rtx3090. I use the fourth screen to monitor obs and read the chat. As soon as i start a live i have this kind of fps loss. Sometimes they are real..i know the games i play are a lot demanding for my gpu..i can see the drop on the steam fps counter but sometimes fps are high and i have this feeling of fps drop. I changed my cpu because he seemed overloaded but now the new one is half utilized and i still have this kind of fps drop ( some call this stutter or microstutter ). So i did the modifications you said and i thank you for that. I did a test with UFO..Strange thing is that he always tells me potential browser stutter occurs while all my apps are closed, only UFO is opened in chrome. Other strange thing is that if i move the UFO window opened in chrome to my 60hz tv monitor..he still indicates 240hz..I hope the modifications will stop the stutters..Thanks again
Also something to keep in mind, is that to get the steam fps counter, you have to activate the steam overlay, and any overlay, even the nvidia game capture shit, will cause fps problems. I noticed a difference when I disabled steam overlay. I can’t check fps now, but there is a performance boost when its not on.
I love you Cyrus! I think it worked
hi i really need help with my monitor so my main monitor started flickering black while i was playing fortnite and it stayed black my second monitor works perfectly fine and idk how to fix it
If you can afford it, specifically for streaming, get the second PC and capture card. Install Barrier and sync up one keyboard and mouse and stutter while gaming isn't an issue then either.
I switched to 240hz from 165hz .. and my performance drop while live streaming. Is there any setting I need to setup ? Just turn off the HW acceleration?
P/s : only use one monitor setup and its 1080p
I have 2 240 hz monitors, when I use the ufo motion blur test it always pops up with the orange stutter message. Hardware acceleration is turned off, both monitors are set to 240 hz but I still get stutters, especially playing a game. Any idea?
Wow, impressive to have 2 monitors a that refresh, I think nobody will answer cause 0.001 of people have this setup. Chances are so slim.
I have a surface book on the side. Use that to watch RUclips etc instead of plugging both my monitors into on pc
I have two monitors , cpu 12900K , gpu 3090Ti , should I connect two monitors to gpu or second which I need just for looking in chat (while streaming) I can connect to motherboard ( CPUs GPU) to have a best performance on my main monitor ?
what if im not doing anything on the other monitors? can I solve this with a separate graphics cards for the additional monitors?
72hz refresh on secondary would already play more nice... That's about half what the other is... Matching is not necessary but they at least have to be some factor (integer) difference
Can you lock the secondary monitors' refresh rate to match whatever the primary monitor is and solve said issue?
Very useful, Thanks , I have RTX 2060 8 GB, and I have two monitors the main one is Samsung odyssey G6 - 32 inch - 2K - 240 hertz and the 2nd one is LG 4K 60 hertz, I do heavy gaming and streaming and record games using elgato, my question is can I run dual monitor without any issues? I will use display port to G6 and HDMI for LG, please help, and Thanks for the video
how tf are you gaming on that with a 2060?
This is grrat for when i get a second monitor for my setup
Does monitor technology affect too?
My main is on fixed refresh but my 2nd monitor is on G-sync
I have similar monitor (27 & 24.5) with same refresh rate
I play fps that's why it's on fixed refresh for less input lag
Started having problems after getting a 144hz 1440p side monitor in addition to my 120hz 1440p ultrawide. Does being ultra wide / aspect ration hurt performance as well? Can I cap my refresh rate on both monitors to 120hz to help them sync up? Kills me playing tarkov.
Ultra wide shouldn’t impact it, but the different refresh rates will. Cap it to your lowest. There isn’t much difference between 120 and 144 anyways
The Jeff Cavaliere of gaming :)
I've been having an odd issue. While gaming on my main which is a 34" ultra wide and 24" on the side my screens will go black. I can make this happen if video on the side is at 1080. Upon checking the refresh rate which I thought they were both at 144hz, it turns out my second monitor has refresh rates that are a little off. So 144 is 143.855 and 120 is 119.982. Hopefully using this fix will stop the problems I've been having.
I have the same problem, gaming on main , 2nd monitor RUclips , it's suddenly black screen
@@redzyakuza theres a chance you guys arent giving enough voltage
I had that issue. The fix was a gpu DDU.
CAN SOME ONE HELP when i go into apex or any game it messes up my other windows like it makes them squished idk if its the resolution idk whats wrong pls hlp
I run three monitors and have no issues. 4070 TI might be the difference? Who knows...
omg life saver what would suck is I have TTS on so while I am playing RDR2 I would hear someone type in my chat and then it would take 10 seconds for my monitor to show the message.
Bro is fixing problems we didn't even know we had
thank you and god bless
I have a question is it possible to match my two monitors hz by reducing the higher hz monitor to the lower via display settings? I'm using a 165hz and a 144hz
Yep. This is actually what I do
Is that still a thing with windows 11 ? are people all aware of this and removing hardware acceleration everywhere because I see alot of content creators with like 3-4 monitors sometimes with 60/144/165/240 all at the same time and they never mentionned anything about it. I tried the remove hardware acceleration thing it might be better but not perfect. Maybe one hdmi and one display port could be causing this both plug inside my gpu.
What do you mean by disable preview window?
Same thing happens to me when i play something on my other monitor witch is 60hz (My main is 144hz) the Main monitor mircrostuters A LOT when i play games but on other games its fine (The fps doesn't drop just the monitor goes ham)
How did u solve it????!!
Since there are still people commenting here's a solution:
You don't have to match 1:1, you only need to make sure main monitor hz is divisible by side monitor hz clean.
I.E. New monitors at 240hz works with 60hz since 4*60hz=240hz so the gpu can update them together. If you have something like 144hz or 165hz + 60hz they will always be on different cycles and that seems to be the issue. Some games will stutter immensely unless you use bandaid solution and set your 165hz monitor down to 120hz so it matches with the old 60hz monitor. Then it runs perfectly fine. Weirdly this is not a universal issue and occurs only with some games. I personally tested this with the surge 2.
Thank you for the input. I also tested halving the frame rate between 120 and 60 and still noticed stuttering specifically with OBS and any windowed borderless game. Might be a special case for me, but it didn’t work well when I was troubleshooting before this video came oht
@@DarkenedCyrus I should have communicated it better. You are right. The situation i tried to describe is another problem where its way worse, surge 2 was completely unplayable stuttering like it ran on 10fps until i reduced main monitor to 120hz to match 60hz side screen at which point it ran normal.(This was even without something on side screen) Its the only case i had where it made a massive difference but i found it worth mentioning in case anybody else encounters same problem and doesn't consider this.
Btw this is an old issue. Hardware acceleration + mismatched monitor refresh rates was a discussion topic on win7 already with 144hz. Quick search here shows 6 year old video "144Hz 60Hz multi-monitor bug in Chrome".
thanks. ive this issue with GTA V when my main monitor have 144 + 60 by side. i put 120hz in game refresh rate and this was finally fix
@@storage9578 it will sometimes clock the 144 down to 60 to match the other monitor...which sucks bad...Gpus makers blame windows...windows blames gpu makers and everyone loses
@@milkman1411 75hz*2=150hz, its off by 15hz to a 165 monitor so wont work. You can generalize this with prime division: 165 = 11*5*3 so the closest next hz is 11*5= 55hz.
I wonder if you can do this if your CPU is a KF variant which doesn’t have integrated graphics.
Also, if you do this for Discord, does that mean when you stream on discord, it utilizes the CPU instead of GPU?
Totally can. I was doing this in a Ryzen system that didn’t have integrated graphics.
Simple! Thank you
I have a question. What if both monitors are connected to different GPUs, like say, you’re using a laptop without a mux switch (one external monitor connected to dGPU, internal one hardwired to iGPU) or a desktop with two graphics cards
Then it shouldn’t be an issue at all. This also isn’t as much of an issue for AMD cards either
@@DarkenedCyrus having this issue with AMD 7800xt ):
I've been gaming on an Omen 25l computer and I have an XP pen 24 inch tablet also connected to the same gaming computer. I've noticed lately that my computer will crash during gameplay and will restart my computer even thought I have Auto restart turned off. Is it possible that my XP pen drawing tablet is causing the problem?
Is it one game in particular, or multiple? Personally, in the last few months when I try launching Siege it'll crash my whole PC and have to restart but no other game does that 🤷♂️
side note, vibing the shirt sir!
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ty so much
Is there a way to do this with Opera GX? Whenever a video ends while I'm gaming, it causes the game to stutter and sometimes I get weird artifacting and I'm on a 3080..
Remove overclocks on your GPU if you have and if you're just listening to the video, change tab then click back into your game. Works for me when I play WoW while a twitch stream is running.
unfortunately my second monitor is already the same refresh as my main 165hz. I will try these fixes though
Omg I totally forgot that 😮 I wonder if this is why I can’t drag anything that’s open over from my 2nd monitor namely a game keeps opening on my tv monitor but I can’t access it from my pc monitor its driving me mad! My pc monitor is 144 the tv is probably 60 and the windows settings are giving me a headache 😂
Thanks so much,i was losing some fps (:
7900xtx =, secondary 75hz down to 60hz, primary on 240hz/120hz depending on usage due to idle power consumption in simple games etc, it's clear that it's not AMD or NVIDIA or INTEL, it's windows.
I'm running a 4070 TI Super and a 3070 TI with each GPU hooked up to a monitor. Both monitors are the same (Nitro E12 curved monitor 2560x1440 165hz) but I was wondering if the 4070 TI super can support both monitors since they are both running 165hz? Google AI said the 4070 TI super can run 4 monitors (non-4k) and 2 4k / 8k monitors).
I believe that the short answer based on what this video is about is, it should not be an issue, why? 1) Because your monitors are running in same refresh rates 2) Because your GPU has the power to do it.
A lot of these guys have flickering issues, monitors going dark when gaming, etc. because of the GPU, obviously this is not the case for you.
One thing to mention though is that if your monitors have different refresh rates, it could help the GPU with the load and temperature as well, maybe is worth to do the test: 2 monitors same rate running Cyberpunk, then 2 different monitors different refresh rates running Cyberpunk.
Darkened Cyrus why you been hiding here for 2 years, this is great tip that many gamers especially struggle with.
Listen, how does all of this work with Freesync, Gsync? What are the cons of disabling hardware acceleration?
I normally did this anyway - since I otherwise couldn't probably share video-feed with sound on Discord from RUclips.
can i use my 1st 160HZ monitor for gaming and 2nd 60HZ for YT or other application , will it affect gaming ?
That’s what this RUclips video is about, you will have performance issues if you put video or anything motion on the second monitor if the refresh rates don’t match
i have two 60hz monitors, running a 3060. just added the second monitor but my monitor that i game on is dropping significantly in FPS. i usually average 130 but now im only getting 90. any recommendations?
If they match refresh rate, then it seems like a different issue. Check the normal stuff. Drivers, updates, etc. make sure Re-bar support is on in the bios as well
i figured this out by luck while trying things out. appreciate the insight into why this happens.
Just saw this comment today! Love this! It took me FOREVER to figure out why
I have the same setup one main monitor and a secondary one that is in portrait mode but when I move my mouse to the second one it is flipped aswell if that makes sence it behaves like it is not flipped at all what should I do
There are options in windows display to do portrait or portrait (flipped). Try those
So I have an RTX 3070, and my main monitor is 244hz, 2nd is 60hz and now I added my samsung 60hZ 1080p TV. MY pixel drop rate is just -1 per second. FPS staying around 230-240. Is that something I should be like worrying about and adjusting somethings or just dont even worry about it. Sorry for being a bit ignorant.
Yes. Just because it’s adjusting only a little bit, doesn’t mean you aren’t getting micro stutters. Easy solution? Play true fullscreen, not bordered or windowed
hello i actually got a question
what if i put 1 monitor into gpu and another one into motherboard to use cpu graphics?
Shouldn’t be an issue then!
thankyou sir my problem solved in 1 click 🤗