When is stuttering happening in apps that aren't open?
When is stuttering happening in apps that aren't open?
I will try my best to explain this because it is really hard to put words on a bad situation. The problem is that things are getting in the way of me doing what I want to do. This only happens with some games, mostly ones that are pretty graphical like World of Warcraft. It's one of those rare exceptions for me. I play my games on two screens at once. Both screens are 1440p sharp. My main screen is running at 165hz with G-Sync, and my second screen is 144hz with full G-Sync. The issue that makes me mad is easy to point out when I tell you about it. When certain games take priority while other apps are open, things on the other monitor start moving really slow. As a recent example, I'm playing World of Warcraft and leveling in new places from an old expansion. I am playing at the same time as watching videos on my second screen. Every time I look away to check something else on the main screen, the videos on the second screen slow down as if they are being affected by my graphics card. At first, I thought it was because of shadow rendering. When I turned that off for a little while and saw performance go up, things looked better. But now it isn't really fixed at all anymore. A new zone in World of Warcraft with different shaders is still hurting apps on the other screen. The game itself runs fine without any slowdown or stuttering. This also happens on Second Life, but there it is much worse and disabling shadows in the client software helped a lot. But I would like to turn shadows back on so I can enjoy full graphics capability.
Do you have the newest motherboard BIOS and AMD chipset drivers already on your PC? Or are you just sticking with the basic Microsoft drivers? I'd update EVERY driver from the AMD website, including everything for your network (wired or wireless), sound card, processor, and make sure the latest stable version of your motherboard BIOS is installed. Also, clearing all your Nvidia drivers with DDU wouldn't be a bad idea either.