- May 9, 2012
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Hey everyone,
I'm vary familiar with PC hardware as I build PC's and I often like to overclock, have been doing it for years, But when it comes to software, I consider myself above average but no expert.
That out of the way, My system spec is at the bottom, I can play pretty much every game I own well above 60fps at 2560x1440, this is on a BenQ XL2730Z at 144hz Via display port cable.
Now I moved out of state, and I decided to bring only 1 monitor, so in my off time I like to play a few games but I also like to watch a stream or watch youtube, its simple in Windowed mode and works well but the games are so stuttery that its eye watering, With nothing but the game going its a mess in windowed mode, Every single game apart from Diablo 3.
I can get it somewhat smooth by setting the game to 1080p and just watching whatever off the side, I'll use GTA5 for example, GTA at 1080p I get well over 100fps, but it has this 30hz feeling and you can see it. Windowed borderless at 2560x1440 FPS is still around 100, but again its worse, it just feels and looks like i'm getting around 30 fps.
Games like Rainbow Six Siege or Wildlands play horrible in Windowed mode, FPS high, but feels and looks so bad, Probably the worst out of the lot of games I've played. 1080p is no good either with these games. COD WW2, BF1 and Forza Horizon 4 all get some sort of stutter feeling and look above 100fps. FH4 only uses 1 GPU in DX12, and its about as bad as the Ubisoft games.
Things I've tired, I've tried disabling SLI for each of these games, even physically removing a card for repair games still felt the same, stuttery. I've also tried setting my Overclocks back to default values due to a problem with a GFCI breaker issue having problems with my UPS, resetting the OC fixed that until I got rid of that breaker.
I didn't go back drivers as this has been happening for a few months on a number of drivers, Didn't have this problem on Windows 8.1.
I disabled Fullscreen Optimizations for every game, due to Windows notifications lagging the games, Disabled the Windows DVR/Gamebar stuff, I have disabled all and ever overlays such as steam, shadowplay and I personally use D3DGear, any and ever background software, had no change at all.
I also run SLI in x8/x8 mode as I do have 3 other PCIE cards, I took them all out to force x16 to the primary card, no performance change at all, all these games even Portal 2 in windowed mode, getting 300 and some FPS the game feels bad, feels like I'm on a lower than 60hz monitor.
I know DWM uses triple buffering and I expect some sort of latency, I'm not vary competitive these days away, but I'd like to play in Windows fullscreen smoothly so I don't have to deal with the alt+tab problems.
Anyone at all have any suggestions? I have tried HDMI at 60hz as I thought my 12 foot Displayport cable could be a problem, but its the same.
Thanks!
I'm vary familiar with PC hardware as I build PC's and I often like to overclock, have been doing it for years, But when it comes to software, I consider myself above average but no expert.
That out of the way, My system spec is at the bottom, I can play pretty much every game I own well above 60fps at 2560x1440, this is on a BenQ XL2730Z at 144hz Via display port cable.
Now I moved out of state, and I decided to bring only 1 monitor, so in my off time I like to play a few games but I also like to watch a stream or watch youtube, its simple in Windowed mode and works well but the games are so stuttery that its eye watering, With nothing but the game going its a mess in windowed mode, Every single game apart from Diablo 3.
I can get it somewhat smooth by setting the game to 1080p and just watching whatever off the side, I'll use GTA5 for example, GTA at 1080p I get well over 100fps, but it has this 30hz feeling and you can see it. Windowed borderless at 2560x1440 FPS is still around 100, but again its worse, it just feels and looks like i'm getting around 30 fps.
Games like Rainbow Six Siege or Wildlands play horrible in Windowed mode, FPS high, but feels and looks so bad, Probably the worst out of the lot of games I've played. 1080p is no good either with these games. COD WW2, BF1 and Forza Horizon 4 all get some sort of stutter feeling and look above 100fps. FH4 only uses 1 GPU in DX12, and its about as bad as the Ubisoft games.
Things I've tired, I've tried disabling SLI for each of these games, even physically removing a card for repair games still felt the same, stuttery. I've also tried setting my Overclocks back to default values due to a problem with a GFCI breaker issue having problems with my UPS, resetting the OC fixed that until I got rid of that breaker.
I didn't go back drivers as this has been happening for a few months on a number of drivers, Didn't have this problem on Windows 8.1.
I disabled Fullscreen Optimizations for every game, due to Windows notifications lagging the games, Disabled the Windows DVR/Gamebar stuff, I have disabled all and ever overlays such as steam, shadowplay and I personally use D3DGear, any and ever background software, had no change at all.
I also run SLI in x8/x8 mode as I do have 3 other PCIE cards, I took them all out to force x16 to the primary card, no performance change at all, all these games even Portal 2 in windowed mode, getting 300 and some FPS the game feels bad, feels like I'm on a lower than 60hz monitor.
I know DWM uses triple buffering and I expect some sort of latency, I'm not vary competitive these days away, but I'd like to play in Windows fullscreen smoothly so I don't have to deal with the alt+tab problems.
Anyone at all have any suggestions? I have tried HDMI at 60hz as I thought my 12 foot Displayport cable could be a problem, but its the same.
Thanks!
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