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Whenever I drag a window from my first screen to my second screen, it looks like it's moving at like 20 fps, I can see it moving choppy. This also happens when I'm watching a video, even when I'm not dragging to my other screen. How the hell is this even possible? Also, when I play a game the screen just becomes choppy even though fraps says I have like 300 fps.. VSync doesn't solve anything.
I've got a 4670k and a GTX 780, both overclocked so I don't see how my specs could be an issue.

 

I think it has something to do with windows but I'm not sure on that. Anyone know what I can do to maybe fix this? :(

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What are you using as a monitor? This sounds like a bottle neck of some sort.

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I'll agree with ttam. Usually means not enough ram. How much ram do you have?

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Paging normally means not enough ram.

do you think it could be a driver issue with the 780?

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8GB RAM and less than half is being used..

Run a memtest. Chance it's bad ram.

 

do you think it could be a driver issue with the 780?

It can be. Maybe 15% of the time with this issue it's either a bad driver or the GPU isn't getting enough power.

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Run a memtest. Chance it's bad ram.

 

It can be. Maybe 15% of the time with this issue it's either a bad driver or the GPU isn't getting enough power.

I've reverted and reinstalled drivers a few times so it's probably not that. I have a RM1000 PSU I got for a cheap price recently, and had a CX500 before. The problems were also present with my CX500 so it's not the PSU at least.. I'll do a memtest and see if it's bad memory tho.

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I've reverted and reinstalled drivers a few times so it's probably not that. I have a RM1000 PSU I got for a cheap price recently, and had a CX500 before. The problems were also present with my CX500 so it's not the PSU at least.. I'll do a memtest and see if it's bad memory tho.

That is a tricky one. Open up a performance viewer when it starts to happen and see if ram/cpu/anything starts to spike

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That is a tricky one. Open up a performance viewer when it starts to happen and see if ram/cpu/anything starts to spike

Memtest passed, no spikes because it happens even when my pc is still booting up and only using ~2.5G of ram. Looks like I'm gonna have to try and reinstall windows if this keeps happening, it honestly seems like a problem with windows.

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That is a tricky one. Open up a performance viewer when it starts to happen and see if ram/cpu/anything starts to spike

I think I found the culprit! dwm.exe goes up to 25% CPU usage when I move a window across the screen, and sometimes it randomly goes up to like 10-15% as well. I've tried looking around on google but didn't really find anything. Anything you can do with this info?

 

Edit: Believe it or not, it's gotten worse.. Windows now look like they're moving at about 5 fps when I'm dragging them around, my whole system is screwed up now lol. dwm.exe constantly at 20% CPU and even higher when I'm moving windows around.

 

Second edit: killing the dwm process makes windows smooth as ever before, but I get a lot of screen tearing and white borders around the windows when I move them around and stuff like this on the side of the screen(when I move them around).

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