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Programs lag when not tabbed into them

Cookiecrumbles222
By Cookiecrumbles222
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Hey, guys, I have two monitors and like to play games on one and watch videos/browse the web and such on the other and this has worked fine for me for the past 2 years, however about 6 months ago I noticed that the videos on the second monitor would lag and freeze as if my internet was bad, but when I tabbed over to them they would instantly load and be fine. this went on for a while until I tried to overclock my ram a bit and they didn't completely solve the problem but it helped enough to where it didn't bother me. but now recently its gotten much worse. now when I'm tabbed on my game TeamSpeak periodically lags out, I can't even start to load videos, etc. I've monitored my temps on my stuff and nothing is overheating so heat throttling isn't the issue, but other than that I don't know the issue. If there is a way to fix this without paying to upgrade that would be great however I don't know the issue.

 

My Build -> https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XVJxyc

Games I have issues with -> PUBG,DOTA 2, Rainbow 6.

Possible Problems -> when I look at my CPU it's at 99% usage, ram is at 50-80% (16GB ram) (Based on task manager), My parts are old.

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1 minute ago, Cookiecrumbles222 said:

but whats the solution, to change that?

Throwing in an i7 would probably stop it. Or just don't multitask, i5's aren't too great for that especially in modern/more intense games.

 

 

         

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