Gaming PC, could use a little help.

jjandhavoc

Commendable
Apr 25, 2016
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Hello Everyone,

So i had a gaming PC built. I know... i should have built it, but i looked up all the parts and it would have cost me more to buy them separately. at least on amazon. I had the system build and everything seems fine but the only thing is that I am getting some serious lag on Total War: Atilla. I know this has been a huge problem for a lot of people. I'm going to try some of the solutions for that that are on youtube ect. That is beside the point though.

My main point is that I want to be able to game on one monitor, a 1440p ROG. and then watch a movie on my other monitor, an older 1080p. Everytime i try to do this is one or the other closes, the game or the video.

Here are my specs:
Intel® Core™ i7-6700K Processor (4x 4.00GHz/8MB L3 Cache) OC to 4.4
32 GB [8 GB x4] DDR4-2800
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Ti - 6GB - EVGA SuperClocked
ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming
512 GB SanDisk X300 SSD

Is my system not powerful enough to do this? or is there something else I can do to maximize the performance of everything?

Any suggestions would help. Maybe I am just expecting too much.

Really appreciate all the help.
 
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Wow thats odd. I do this on every game I play and usually have a guide website or a video/movie running full screen on the 2nd monitor and I only have a gtx970. yes your systems should be more than capable of this but it may have somethig to do with the mixed resolution. I'm running two 1080 displays.


Frankly it baffles me that in 2016 we still have to black out our other monitors when gaming without going into crappy windowed mode. I never understood this. I've been in that same club.
 

jjandhavoc

Commendable
Apr 25, 2016
3
0
1,510
i appreciate the help, my system should be good enough to do this correct?
i tried it in windowed mode for TW Atilla and VLC at a low res on the other screen still wouldn't work. I figured was pushing the GPU too far or something but i am by no means an expert. I play at max res with max settings.
 

popatim

Titan
Moderator
Wow thats odd. I do this on every game I play and usually have a guide website or a video/movie running full screen on the 2nd monitor and I only have a gtx970. yes your systems should be more than capable of this but it may have somethig to do with the mixed resolution. I'm running two 1080 displays.
 
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