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inanedirkI've had a weird problem with my dual screen setup for quite long. I might've mentioned it before in fact. Basically programs perform better when they're being displayed on my primary screen. It's very noticable with media center. It's fluent on my primary, but runs jittery on the secondary (looks like it's running with just half the refresh rate).
I've spent several hours in the past year(s?) googling this particular problem, but never found any solution. Until today, that is..
It's supposed to be a Windows Aero / Transparency issue. Whenever the system thinks stuff on the primary screen is too graphics intensive the refresh rate on the secondary is tuned down. This behaviour is triggered just about always though. As soon as you so much as move an open explorer window, the refresh rate on the secondary monitor goes down 50%.
Funnily enough, the solution recommended on that forum works for me. I just installed nvidia drivers from more than a year ago (vista x64 182.50 ones) and the performance now is perfect on both monitors.
Yay! Finally!
Btw, I reinstalled my system since none of the solutions Microsoft recommended for my corrupted Windows Update solved that issue.
I've spent several hours in the past year(s?) googling this particular problem, but never found any solution. Until today, that is..
It's supposed to be a Windows Aero / Transparency issue. Whenever the system thinks stuff on the primary screen is too graphics intensive the refresh rate on the secondary is tuned down. This behaviour is triggered just about always though. As soon as you so much as move an open explorer window, the refresh rate on the secondary monitor goes down 50%.
Funnily enough, the solution recommended on that forum works for me. I just installed nvidia drivers from more than a year ago (vista x64 182.50 ones) and the performance now is perfect on both monitors.
Yay! Finally!
Btw, I reinstalled my system since none of the solutions Microsoft recommended for my corrupted Windows Update solved that issue.
