Guild Wars 2

Im on break at work so I may not be able to reply instantly but I’ll go ahead and post my issue in case someone has some good ideas i can try when I get home.

So I just built a new PC. This is my first time building my own but I had a knowledgable friend help with assembly so hopefully thats not the issue. Specs are:

Intel i5 4690k — processor
Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H Black — motherboard
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC 4GB — gpu
Patriot 2×8GB DDR3-2133 LP Red — memory
Crucial MX200 500GB — SSD
EVGA Supernova 650 GS 750W — psu
Thermalright True Spirit 140 Rev. A — cpu cooler
Windows 8.1 — os

I wanted to be specific with the parts so you could let me know if they were known to be low quality or faulty but I tried to do my research as best I could being a complete novice.
Honestly my fps is normally pretty good (100+) but when a youtube video is playing on my second moniter I get crazy stuttering type lag spikes. Its not exactly fps loss, it just feels like its skipping. The in game fps indicator is showing me at 70-80 but when i turn the camera it stutters and dips down to like 30-40. While this doesnt sound that bad, it feels really terrible, like everything is skipping around.

Sorry for being all over the place with my description, im writing this on my iphone so its hard to edit lol. Thanks for any help you guys can provide.

Which browser are you using might make a difference. As far as I know, your video card would be used for hardware acceleration for rendering the YouTube Video. And a bit of processor time as well. You’ve got a great specced rig, but GW2 is really processor heavy program, so having YouTube playing at the same time will affect performance.

Try dialing back the resolution of your second screen, or playing back the videos in a lower resolution and see if that makes a difference.

Thanks for the advice, im using chrome but ive tried opera and firefox. Could it also be that my second display is a 40in tv? Maybe using a small monitor would help? I feel like im missing something here cause my old computer could play gw2 and youtube together without this huge of a fps hit.

Nope. Your TV is really just a big monitor. And 1080p (if you’re running at 1920×1080) is 1080p. The physical size doesn’t affect performance or demand on your system. Just the resolution. What did you have for a system before? I’m not an Nvidia guy, but I would think that you should be able to run both the game and YouTube with any stutters. Unless you’re getting some sort of lag due to YouTube sucking up bandwidth. Does it happen with every video you plan on YouTube? Is it consistent at any time of day? Did you run the exact same setup (screens and resolutions on both) before? And are you running them as extended desktops or Nvidia’s flavour of eyefinity? Are you running the latest video card drivers Nvidia recommends for your card (not the ones supplied by Microsoft)?

Edited to add this question: Do you have the onboard video enabled or disabled? Doesn’t matter if you’re using it… You should have it disabled if you aren’t.

(*I’m not assuming anything about your computer knowledge, so take no offense if something I’ve asked or said seems obvious… Just trying to help you troubleshoot.)

In case you didn’t notice this sticky: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/PC-FPS-and-Performance-based-issues/first#post338300

No offense taken, thanks for pointing out that sticky, Ive already tried most of the stuff on there but there’s a couple things I can give a shot. I cant remember what I was running before off the top of my head but I can look that up soon. My main display is the same as before but my second display was just a cheap low res tv. Im going to try and hook that back up when I grt home, it never bothered me before to watch youtube on it lol. It seems to be pretty consistant, my internet speed is always over 100mb/s so i dont think bandwidth is the issue. Im running them as extended desktops, i dont think ive tried eyefinity. Drivers for the gpu and on board graphics are up to date. My second display is using the onboard but ive tried it connected to the gpu with the same results. I can try it using the gpu again and disabling the ondoard graphics, I never tried that.
Thanks for the suggestions, ill post on the results asap.

Hey… Did you resolve this??