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Strange Issue with Multiple Monitors
Hey all, I have searched around the internet for anyone else with this issue and have not been able to find anything related.
Basically, I have an ASUS N53SV-EH72 laptop. Connected to it, I have a 23" ASUS display, connected through HDMI. What my issue is, is that when I have the two monitors set to Extended Display mode, the original laptop screen lags. I have my 23" monitor, at 1920x1080, set to be the primary monitor, since I like playing games on the larger screen. The 1366x768 of the laptop is then used for internet browsing, Skype, etc.. I notice this lag, for example, when I am on my desktop with nothing running. Dragging an Explorer window, for example around the large monitor, it moves perfectly smooth and there are no problems. However when I drag said window to the smaller laptop display, it begins lagging, almost moving at half the FPS of the larger display. Basically, the smaller monitor has choppy playback on everything (for example, watching a 60fps video on the small monitor, it only goes at about 30, while the large monitor is still going perfectly smoothly). In the Intel Control Panel, both are set to native resolution and 60p hertz.
There are two strange things I noticed:
1. When Aero is turned off (I have desktop composition disabled for all my games, since I run them in windowed fullscreen), both monitors are perfectly smooth. I have been using the Windows Basic theme to avoid the choppiness, but I'd much rather have Aero.
2. When the built-in laptop monitor is set to the main display, there is no choppiness problems. However, the reason I cannot do this is that this will force games to run in said laptop display, rather than the large external monitor.
Any help would be appreciated.