Hey. First post here. I've rewritten this post 3 times now, so I'm just going to describe the problem. If I run games in windowed mode (1600x900) it feels laggy and clunky. If I run games in 1920x1080 windowed borderless it runs fine. I'm an osu player and I prefer to have my game in 1600x900, but if I have the window on my primary monitor it feels laggy/clunky. If I however move it to my secondary monitor it runs just fine. If I have osu in 1920x1080 borderless it runs just fine on my primary monitor as well. League of Legends works perfect with these settings as well. Constant 120 fps and feels normal. So: If I run games in windowed mode on my primary monitor it feels laggy/clunky. If I move them to my secondary monitor they run just fine. If I run games in 1920x1080 borderless the games run just fine on my primary monitor. I hope the text made any sense whatsoever, I really need help. Specs: CPUi5 3570K @ 4.5GHz MotherboardMSI Z77-A G45 RAMCorsair Vengeance 8GB GPUAsus DC2 GTX GeForce 780

Games in windowed mode feels laggy/clunky on primary monitor. (Using 2 monitors)

By herecomestheking
August 7, 2014 in Troubleshooting

Go to solution Solved by SlayerOfHellWyrm, August 7, 2014

The "issue" you are talking about is how Windows prioritizes things when they are focused. Basically, if a window is not focused Windows won't use as much resources to keep that window performing at max potential cause why would you want something that you aren't looking at to be running at 100% when the resources can be used for something else? It's not an issue, it's just how Windows works

I actually talked to a friend of a streamer I mod for who works at Windows, and it turns out, you're half right. It's that, in combination with force V-Sync on the aero theme. On a 60Hz monitor, you shouldn't notice as much of an impact as a 120Hz, or 144Hz, but it will be there. The limited resources due to Windows processing window focus, and then the V-Sync forced by Aero combine on a 144Hz to give you just terrible lag/ low FPS. Disabling Aero would certainly help, but you'll still have some lag.

Posted August 7, 2014

Yeah, so you're used to a much lower OEM cost, and having that factored into the PC price. If you want it cheaper, just buy an OEM copy. The only real difference is you only get a single use with OEM, and it's tied to the Motherboard it's activated on.

I agree but there's only one problem. It's hard to find OEM copies here

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