Lagging Issues While Videos Playing

Dartulius

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Hello everyone,

Looking for a little help on a problem that I am noticing recently. If I am playing a game on my left monitor (27" 1080p with HDMI cord connected to GPU) and have a movie/video playing on the right monitor (24" 1080p, also with HDMI, connected to motherboard), I will tend to notice lag, sometimes intense lag, on the left monitor. Now, based on my specs, listed below, I have a hard time believing that something isn't going wrong somewhere.


i7-3770k (currently at stock)
ASRock Extreme3 Gen3
16GB G.Skills Ripjaws 1600MHz
GeForce GTX 780ti
1TB WD Green HDD 7200RPM
120GB Corsair Force GT SSD
CoolerMaster V1000 Gold Cert.

All liquid cooled with dual 480mm radiators. I like overkill...

I re-installed Windows 7 not too long ago, just for a fresh install, and have noticed several problems since doing that, such as tons of broken pathways that never happened before.

No viruses, and all drivers up to date. My only thought was that a hard drive was starting to go bad on me, my CPU is starting to die, or (hopefully) that my Win 7 re-install had something botched along the lines and I just need to do it again.

Any and all thoughts welcome! Thanks!
 
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sounds like one program or the other is requesting a lot of GPU/CPU time during the lag issues. If you game don't run a video and expect not to get lag even on a powerful system. Gaming is very GPU/CPU intensive and to play a video on top of the intensive program will cause resource issues, mainly GPU usage issues.
sounds like one program or the other is requesting a lot of GPU/CPU time during the lag issues. If you game don't run a video and expect not to get lag even on a powerful system. Gaming is very GPU/CPU intensive and to play a video on top of the intensive program will cause resource issues, mainly GPU usage issues.
 
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Dartulius

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I do use VLC, but it isn't just VLC that the issues happens with. YouTube, NetFlix, and any form of media tends to cause the lagging problems. It isn't internet related by any means, that is ruled out. But it isn't just VLC or anything causing it.
 

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Yes, two different drivers have been used so far, though I believe that one of them was a beta driver. Perhaps try another? I believe that I am doing to reinstall Win7 anyways, so I might just be doing all the drivers again no matter what.