Videos on second monitor feel choppy when gaming on primary monitor

[Omie]

I'm running an i7 7700k, RTX 3070, and 16GB RAM.

 

I just noticed that whenever I'm gaming on my primary monitor, any videos that I watch on my second monitor (e.g. YouTube/Twitch) feel a little choppy/stuttery and aren’t smooth, almost like if the fps of the videos on my second monitor have dropped. As soon as I click into my second monitor, the choppyness goes away. When I click back into my primary monitor where my game is, the choppyness on the second monitor returns. 

 

I also noticed that when I'm gaming (like playing FFXIV) my GPU is around 90%+ usage. Both of my monitors are 144Hz with G-sync enabled. One is 1440p and the other is 1080p.

 

Is this normal behavior?

 

Edit: Just tested it with another game (League of Legends) and I didn't experience this issue. Videos on my second monitor still felt smooth even when I was playing League on my primary monitor. However, my GPU usage is only about 30% when playing League. Is this just a case that choppyness is experienced on my second monitor whenever my GPU is getting high usage?

[richodude]

Just seems like more GPU is going towards your games that use it but is pretty weird. Are you watching videos in 4k?

[Omie]

3 minutes ago, richodude said:

Just seems like more GPU is going towards your games that use it but is pretty weird. Are you watching videos in 4k?

No, just 1080p Twitch streams. The streams are outputted in 60fps, but when I'm playing FFXIV the Twitch streams feel more like 30-40 fps. As soon as I click back into my second monitor, the streams become smooth again.

[richodude]

now im just guessing but maybe you are running on some sort of power saver mode that uses less resources for unfocused apps?

[Omie]

6 minutes ago, richodude said:

now im just guessing but maybe you are running on some sort of power saver mode that uses less resources for unfocused apps?

No power saver modes. I am using HAGS in Windows 11 as well as hardware acceleration is enabled in Chrome. But I did turn off both of them and it didn't really help either.

[--SID--]

43 minutes ago, Omie said:

Windows 11

You know Kaby Lake is not officially supported by W11?

[Omie]

9 hours ago, --SID-- said:

You know Kaby Lake is not officially supported by W11?

Yeah I'm aware. I actually had microstuttering issues across all games but when I updated to W11 they were fixed.

 

Also, I tested another game (Destiny 2) and did not notice any frame drops in videos playing on my second monitor. I think it may just be with the way FFXIV handles multi-monitor setups. It's not a dealbreaker, but if I would have to guess I would say videos drop maybe 10-20 frames when I'm tabbed into FFXIV. I also noticed that in FFXIV my GPU is constantly at 90%+ while in other games it never really reaches 90%.

Also, FFXIV doesn't handle borderless windowed mode correctly, especially with G-sync monitors. I think it may just be the game's engine.