I have a top of the line build, but still can't get 60 fps while watching a YouTube video at the same time as a game.

EvanIsAwesome420 · May 19, 2016

I have 980ti SLI, i7 6700k and 16gb of RAM. I have 2 monitors. I want to play a video game on my left monitor and watch youtube videos at the same time on the other monitor. Is there any way of doing this while keeping the game at 60fps? I don't believe the problem here is whether or not my computer can run it because I have some of the best hardware out right now. Any way I can do this.

For example, I'm playing Dark Souls 3. While watching a YouTube video, the FPS drops to 30-40 instead of a steady 60 when I'm not watching a video. Help please ?

SoNic67 · May 19, 2016

That's the SLI not playing nice with the browser playing the video. SLI works only for certain apps (games) and trying to run concurrently another app that is not supported by SLI, breaks the efficiency. You are probably better off not using the SLI.

EvanIsAwesome420 · May 19, 2016

SoNic67 :

Thanks for the response! Is there any way for Google Chrome to utilize SLI? I don't feel it would be worth it to disable SLI because it works with many of my games.

For some reason, putting the video in full screen mode fixes it

SoNic67 · May 20, 2016

In full screen the video is overlay on that screen. The video card can use just the video processing block (nvenc) for display so it doesn't interfere with the actual GPU cores anymore (leaving them avail for SLI).
You could also try to disable the hardware acceleration in the browser, but that will affect the CPU usage negatively.

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