Hi everyone! This is my first post on these forums, yay. I have a problem that maybe some of you could help me with. Firstly as the title says I can't run a dual monitor setup with my current PC configuration without every single one my games stuttering. I really don't know why because my PC is certainly powerful enough. Here are my specs:
Win 10 64 bit
EVGA GTX 960 FTW 2GB
Intel i5-3570S @3.1ghz
Biostar H61MGC Mobo
16GB DDR3 RAM @1333mhz
SanDisk 1TB SSD + Mushkin 60GB secondary SSD
EVGA 600 watt PSU
I play games like WoT's, Perfect Golf, Farm Expert 2016 and Colin McRae Rally etc. All I put on the second screen during gaming was GPU Tweak II, or sometimes a web browser, or nothing even. I even thought at first that my GTX 960 was having problems so I replaced it with an AMD R9 380 4GB and it was still the same. So I went back to my more favored GTX 960. At the time I was trying to fix this I had the latest drivers for both cards so no worries there. I had my main monitor hooked up via HDMI and the secondary one by DVI. I just dont know what's wrong, my late 2012 Mac Mini can run a dual monitor setup and all it has in the way of graphics is the intel HD 4000 integrated GPU!!! I don't really use my Mac for gaming, it's more of a workstation for my job but it runs those 2 monitors flawlessly.
So in short if I have my second monitor plugged in while gaming every 2 seconds I get a noticeable stutter, and if I unplug the monitor everything runs perfect except for the fact that I'm sad I don't have a dual view hehe. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could fix this??? If I change the second monitor to connect to my GPU using 1 of it's 3 DisplayPorts would that change anything? I've never used a DisplayPort for any of my screens so I don't know if there is any advantage.
Anyways I appreciate you reading this long post, and I want to thank you all in advance for any help you may provide.
Win 10 64 bit
EVGA GTX 960 FTW 2GB
Intel i5-3570S @3.1ghz
Biostar H61MGC Mobo
16GB DDR3 RAM @1333mhz
SanDisk 1TB SSD + Mushkin 60GB secondary SSD
EVGA 600 watt PSU
I play games like WoT's, Perfect Golf, Farm Expert 2016 and Colin McRae Rally etc. All I put on the second screen during gaming was GPU Tweak II, or sometimes a web browser, or nothing even. I even thought at first that my GTX 960 was having problems so I replaced it with an AMD R9 380 4GB and it was still the same. So I went back to my more favored GTX 960. At the time I was trying to fix this I had the latest drivers for both cards so no worries there. I had my main monitor hooked up via HDMI and the secondary one by DVI. I just dont know what's wrong, my late 2012 Mac Mini can run a dual monitor setup and all it has in the way of graphics is the intel HD 4000 integrated GPU!!! I don't really use my Mac for gaming, it's more of a workstation for my job but it runs those 2 monitors flawlessly.
So in short if I have my second monitor plugged in while gaming every 2 seconds I get a noticeable stutter, and if I unplug the monitor everything runs perfect except for the fact that I'm sad I don't have a dual view hehe. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could fix this??? If I change the second monitor to connect to my GPU using 1 of it's 3 DisplayPorts would that change anything? I've never used a DisplayPort for any of my screens so I don't know if there is any advantage.
Anyways I appreciate you reading this long post, and I want to thank you all in advance for any help you may provide.