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Dual Monitors - Secondary Screen Crashes

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  • Dual Monitors
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April 23, 2014 8:58:24 PM

I just recently connected my tower to a TV via HDMI, and a DVI connecting to a monitor. I am using the primary (TV) for gaming, and the secondary is just displaying my GPU monitor and Pandora music (FireFox). My video card is an ASUS Radeon HD 7870 something something something and works very well for gaming. I am using ASUS's GPU Tweak to overclock the card with (slightly). I am really just using the 'Gaming' preset. I had no issues with running dual monitors (my normal config is two twin PC monitors).

For some reason, after a few hours of playing, my secondary monitor crashes. It is still on, but shows an array of RGB(ish) streaks/blocks. When I restart my machine, the monitor works fine again, and may or may not crash during the next few hours. I know it could be any number of reasons, but anybody have a guess is to what's going on?

I would think (since all three displays render 1920 x 1080 picture) that the TV isn't making the card work any harder than the normal monitor... Right?

A few notes- I have recently updated my drivers, disabled CPU parking, and set the priority of my game's .exe to 'High'. Other than that, there has been no changes to my system (besides the connection to the TV).

I thought it may be something with the driver, but then again, the regular monitors worked fine with the new drivers.

Any help resolving this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance...

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April 23, 2014 10:48:13 PM

Another monitor increases the resolution and thus increases the work load,rending a game on one screen and firefox/whatever on another is more stressful,but only slightly. Until you start gaming on 3 monitors that is.

This crashing only happens when you're gaming? Do you get any GPU Driver errors?

First thing i would do is check my Event Viewers Error log for driver failures.
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