Background stuff on PC is stuttering freeze while playing mhw

[JEeZaNY]

Hello,

First of all, the game runs fine on my machine 1440p 100-120 FPS.

The issue here is when I want to watch a youtube video or a twitch stream while playing the game the video always stutter and sometime will go buffering. (when the focus on the game).

If i clicked outside the game window to the browser (chrome or new edge) or any other window beside the game the video will start playing smoothly.

I found two solutions for this.

1. cap the fps to lets say 90 so the game wont take 99% GPU utilization.
2. disable hardware acceleration on the browser so it will use the CPU instead. but this will not make the browser and video as smooth as it was (half smooth?).

Is there anything else that can solve this issue or something to make the browser have higher GPU priorities ?


Setting are all high except
volume rendering quality to low
using (TAA + FXAA) because DLSS is blurry
motion blur off.
borderless (fullscreen wont fix the issue)

Specs:

Ryzen 9 3900X
2080 TI
32 GB 3200 RAM

Update:

FYI when I enable DLSS background apps like youtube and twitch works fine (sometimes) event when I unlock my FPS to 165

[pengtuck]

that's because you are using 2 applications which compete for GPU time, browser and the 3D application. You could watch twitch or youtube on a tablet or phone. I take your point though let me try and replicate the scenario and see if I have the same issues

[Seamus]

Първоначално публикувано от pengtuck:

that's because you are using 2 applications which compete for GPU time, browser and the 3D application. You could watch twitch or youtube on a tablet or phone. I take your point though let me try and replicate the scenario and see if I have the same issues

There is absolutely no way that MHW at 90fps is taking enough gpu time on a 2080 Ti that it'd cause youtube to stutter.

There's something else at play here.

Also: OP, I'd suggest 60fps over 90 for MHW. There's some stuff tied to frame rate in MHW that doesn't quite work right if your framerate isn't a multiple of 60.

[JEeZaNY]

Thank you for your replies.

For GPU time, is it something different than GPU utilization? if yes, is there a tool to monitor that?
I am using Msi afterburner and hwinfo for monitoring my machine.

For 90 fps the utilization is around 85~90 %.
what kind of issues related to not use a frame rate of multiple of 60.

Thanks

[Seamus]

The biggest issues with framerate are when you're sub 30fps. But, any non 60 framerate breaks the tic rate of pierce ammo from bowguns. Unless you use the mod that normalizes the tic rate regardless of frame rate, anyway.

[JEeZaNY]

Първоначално публикувано от Seamus:

The biggest issues with framerate are when you're sub 30fps. But, any non 60 framerate breaks the tic rate of pierce ammo from bowguns. Unless you use the mod that normalizes the tic rate regardless of frame rate, anyway.

Oh, OK thank your for the explanation