Lag when playing on TV through HDMI. Help!

[jeetkunelo]

I recently purchased a Razer Blade 14" 4k with GTX 1060 (Macbook convert, this is my first Windows machine), and I'm getting some noticeable lag when playing Steam games on my 48" 1080p Sony Bravia through HDMI (projecting Second Screen Only).

When playing 'Ori and the Blind Forest' I'm getting pretty solid 60fps at 1920x1080 when playing on either the laptop or the TV (both in Big Picture Mode and standard UI) according to Steam overlay, but the TV is clearly choppy while the laptop display is as smooth as could be, so it's not a frame rate issue.

Does anyone have any experience playing on an HDTV through HDMI and have some suggestions to get picture to appear smooth?

Please help!

[Forcen]

What if you do the win+p shortcut and only display the game on the TV?

[jeetkunelo]

Forcen-

I am using the Second Screen Only projection mode in Windows 10... I am a new Macbook convert, so this is all a bit confusing to me.

At what point would I press Win+P? After the game has launched or before?

Thanks for the reply!

[Forcen]

So you are using the second screen only already? Not both at once?

Hmm, is that the only game with this issue?

What if you do this when you are using the TV as a monitor?
In Steam click Help>System Information. Then right click the text and click "copy all text to clipboard" and then paste it in here.

[Washell]

https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-switch-the-sony-bravia-to-game-mode

[jeetkunelo]

Forcen-

Yeah, I'm using Second Screen Only projection mode.. already figured out that duplicating or extending the screen creates terrible latency.

Ori is the only game I've tried on the TV so far, but I've got a few other games I can try it out on as well.

I'm at work away from my computer, so I can't copy the System Info right now, but I'll do it tonight as well as try Wolfenstein II on the TV as well.

Washell-

I made sure to switch the TV Scene Setting to Game already, so this didn't seem to solve the issue.

Thanks again, and please let me know if anyone has any other suggestions!

[ReBoot]

Set your system to either clone mode or the TV as the main display. See if the problem goes away then.

[jeetkunelo]

Hi ReBoot-

Is there a different place to change this other than the Projection Mode, of which I have tried in every setting (Extended, Duplicated, and Second Screen Only)?

None of them appear to solve the choppiness issue, though Second Screen Only is notably better than the other two... With Extended or Duplicated on, the latency makes games nearly unplayable.

Is there another place to try to "clone" or set TV as main display?

Thanks!

[ReBoot]

Sure, in the settings app. You can define the TV as the primary screen.

Can you borrow a monitor? Id like you to see if it gets better with a monitor instead of the TV.

[jeetkunelo]

UPDATE: Apologies, turns out the culprit was a bad HDMI cable... I had been using it forever and it seemed fine, but when I swapped it out with a new one, problem solved!

Thanks for your help all!

[tajelsirshendi]

i had the same problem its your graphics card just go to your graphics card control panel and change the video settings to use NVIDIA graphics card and it will fix issue i hope this helps