game stutter when watching video on second monitor

[sKetchyy]

Hi all,

 

I've been experiencing some massive game performance drops when opening a browser and watching youtube or twitch on my second monitor at the same time.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions to stop this from happening?

[aezakmi]

how can you play and watch a video at the same time?

 

Anyway, if you use the resource devourer aka chrome that's normal, there's not enough memory for it even if you have 16GB because of the game, try using a different browser (not opera, that's just the same with a different name) I use SeaMonkey and it uses <300mb memory

Also, run the games in borderless windows instead of full screen

[Syntaxvgm]

8 minutes ago, aezakmi said:

how can you play and watch a video at the same time?

 

Anyway, if you use the resource devourer aka chrome that's normal, there's not enough memory for it even if you have 16GB because of the game, try using a different browser (not opera, that's just the same with a different name) I use SeaMonkey and it uses <300mb memory

Also, run the games in borderless windows instead of full screen

It's not memory, twitch casues this for sure and it's cpu side, though it's not nearly as bad as when they were like the last flash holdout

 

OP you have a newer i5. It's not a direct example, but I had less of a problem doing twitch on one screen and a game on the other with a sandy i7 than a haswell i5. Actually, the problem only seems to exist on the i5 for me unless I'm doing something like rendering that takes the whole cpu. The issue is the amount of threads, and you only have 4 to work with.

Limit the process of the tab to 1 thread, then limit the game to the three OTHER threads. It may be tricky finding which one is your twitch tab. Also, plugins show up there. Look for cpu usage and maybe start with a new session with only twitch open.

Right click on the process and click "set affinity" in task manager.

 

You may see a performance decrease in the game, but you will eliminate the stuttering, and the game and twitch will not interfere with each other.

 

The i5 is still really good for gaming, it just runs into problems with doing other stuff at the same time.

[sKetchyy]

13 minutes ago, aezakmi said:

how can you play and watch a video at the same time?

 

Anyway, if you use the resource devourer aka chrome that's normal, there's not enough memory for it even if you have 16GB because of the game, try using a different browser (not opera, that's just the same with a different name) I use SeaMonkey and it uses <300mb memory

Also, run the games in borderless windows instead of full screen

I just like to have the ESL CS GO pro league on in the background so I can glance over at it whilst I'm playing. I was using Chrome at the time and it felt like my PC was actually dying. I've never heard of Seamonkey, is it safe and recommended?

[sKetchyy]

16 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

It's not memory, twitch casues this for sure and it's cpu side, though it's not nearly as bad as when they were like the last flash holdout

 

OP you have a newer i5. It's not a direct example, but I had less of a problem doing twitch on one screen and a game on the other with a sandy i7 than a haswell i5. Actually, the problem only seems to exist on the i5 for me unless I'm doing something like rendering that takes the whole cpu. The issue is the amount of threads, and you only have 4 to work with.

Limit the process of the tab to 1 thread, then limit the game to the three OTHER threads. It may be tricky finding which one is your twitch tab. Also, plugins show up there. Look for cpu usage and maybe start with a new session with only twitch open.

Right click on the process and click "set affinity" in task manager.

 

You may see a performance decrease in the game, but you will eliminate the stuttering, and the game and twitch will not interfere with each other.

 

The i5 is still really good for gaming, it just runs into problems with doing other stuff at the same time.

I’m using an i5 and it does really only seem to be Twitch that totally kills it. I’ve tried what you suggested and hopefully it works itself out! 

[Syntaxvgm]

Just now, sKetchyy said:

I’m using an i5 and it does really only seem to be Twitch that totally kills it. I’ve tried what you suggested and hopefully it works itself out! 

yah you may have to screw with getting the right chrome process. Good luck!

[Baldyl0cks]

I found a fix for my same issue, Chrome Settings>Advanced>Turn off Hardware Acceleration. Guess chrome hogs my 1080TI when i'm tying to play WoW