Monitor turns Off and On when playing video games

[Twsted]

Hi, let me give a little continuity first,
I just purchased (x3) brand new Pixio PX329 32 inch monitors on Black Friday.
for a 3 monitor setup system. They so far work beautiful & are gorgeous to look at
and are a huge step up from what I had before.
They work normally as they should, browsing the web & watching videos
on Youtube, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Porn, Netflix. you know the normal stuff.
But......
When I play video games they tend to turn off and on while actually playing the games.
I tried this on several games and its seems it only does this FPS & 3rd person games but on
games like Terraria, Factorio or games like it, it doesnt do it as much if not at all.
But when I play any games like Wolcen, Destiny 2, Warframe, etc etc as an example,
the monitors tend to go crazy and turn off and on and off and on while playing the games.

My current computer specs:
1. - (x3) Pixio PX-329 32-Inch monitors - brand spanking new.
2. - AMD FX-8350 CPU - (for now, im upgrading this next year)
3. - EVGA GTX 1070-Ti Graphics Card - (only 1 year old.)
4. - SSD main [C:]-Drive - (1-TB)
5. - Gigabyte 990FXUD5 motherboard - (upgrading this next year)
6. - 32-GB DDR3 RAM 1666 - (upgrading this next year)

Has anyone else has this problem with their monitors doing this ??

[ReBoot]

Update your graphics driver first. Power-managing your monitors is your graphics card's job.

[Twsted]

Publicado originalmente por ReBoot:

Update your graphics driver first. Power-managing your monitors is your graphics card's job.

The graphics drivers are at their newest version NVidia v441.41 for my particular video card.
And all drivers are updated on my computer. I checked every driver for my computer and updated everything to its newest version. Including Windows OS

[ReBoot]

Does it also happen with 2 monitors?

[Cathulhu]

Is it really turning off, or going into standby?
How are they connected to your videocard?

[Twsted]

Publicado originalmente por ReBoot:

Does it also happen with 2 monitors?

Ya it does it to all the monitors once i start playing a game for a bit.

[ReBoot]

OK, let me paraphrase: does it also happen when not all 3 monitors are connected to the card?

[Twsted]

Publicado originalmente por Cathulhu:

Is it really turning off, or going into standby?
How are they connected to your videocard?

I think its standby mode, like the screen goes completely black then it comes back,
then it goes black again then it comes back taking about 3-seconds for black and on again.

I have the main 'center' monitor connected via Displayport to Displayport as its the main
screen for playing the video games and the monitor is at 165-refresh rate.

The other (2) monitors the ones on my Left and my right are connected via
Displayport to HDMI. - and each of those are only doing 60-Refreshrate
as I dont mind them being that low because they are only used as side monitors for other things
But I do plan on purchasing 2 more Displayport to Displayport cables to have ALL the monitors
eventually be connected all through displayports on both ends.

[Twsted]

Publicado originalmente por ReBoot:

OK, let me paraphrase: does it also happen when not all 3 monitors are connected to the card?

I havent tried that

[Cathulhu]

Ok, that sounds more like a videocard issue than a monitor issue. The monitors don't get a signal for a moment, then it comes back.

Could be a signal of a dying videocard, could be an unstable driver.
Another idea, is the main display GSync or FreeSync capable?

[Twsted]

I also want to note:
That when I first received the monitors and connected them to the computer.
The computer only recognized 2 of the monitors and it was a hassle to get the 3rd monitor to
get recognized. It would come on once I connected the 3rd monitor,
but then after a while it would shut off. It was also for some odd reason defaulting to 1920x1080
and not at its native resolution of 2560x1440. This only happened to the last monitor being connected.

[Twsted]

Publicado originalmente por Cathulhu:

Ok, that sounds more like a videocard issue than a monitor issue. The monitors don't get a signal for a moment, then it comes back.

Could be a signal of a dying videocard, could be an unstable driver.
Another idea, is the main display GSync or FreeSync capable?

The main monitor is Freesync capable. And I was told by Pixio (the monitor company)
that I could use the EVGA GTX-1070-Ti graphics card and enable G-Sync for games.
When I eventually received the monitors and connected them, it was true,
I connected the monitors and enabled Freesync on my monitors and G-Sync activated
feature was available in the NVidia Control panel.

Also the EVGA GTX 1070-Ti is only about a year old or so, (No older than 1 1/2 years)
its almost brand new too.

[Komrade]

Publicado originalmente por Twsted:

Publicado originalmente por Cathulhu:

Ok, that sounds more like a videocard issue than a monitor issue. The monitors don't get a signal for a moment, then it comes back.

Could be a signal of a dying videocard, could be an unstable driver.
Another idea, is the main display GSync or FreeSync capable?

The main monitor is Freesync capable. And I was told by Pixio (the monitor company)
that I could use the EVGA GTX-1070-Ti graphics card and enable G-Sync for games.
When I eventually received the monitors and connected them, it was true,
I connected the monitors and enabled Freesync on my monitors and G-Sync activated
feature was available in the NVidia Control panel.

You can't enable both at the same time. For troubleshooting, could you turn both freesync and gsync off then play a game to check if it happens still?

[Twsted]

Publicado originalmente por notkennyS:

Publicado originalmente por Twsted:

The main monitor is Freesync capable. And I was told by Pixio (the monitor company)
that I could use the EVGA GTX-1070-Ti graphics card and enable G-Sync for games.
When I eventually received the monitors and connected them, it was true,
I connected the monitors and enabled Freesync on my monitors and G-Sync activated
feature was available in the NVidia Control panel.

You can't enable both at the same time. For troubleshooting, could you turn both freesync and gsync off then play a game to check if it happens still?

I didnt know that. The company said and I quote:
"turn on Freesync on your monitor, then go to control panel and enable G-Sync in control panel."
Because I have an NVidia graphics card.
I followed those exact steps they told me to do.

[Komrade]

Publicado originalmente por Twsted:

Publicado originalmente por notkennyS:

You can't enable both at the same time. For troubleshooting, could you turn both freesync and gsync off then play a game to check if it happens still?

I didnt know that. The company said and I quote:
"turn on Freesync on your monitor, then go to control panel and enable G-Sync in control panel."

I followed those exact steps they told me to do.

You must use DP for Gsync too, DP to HDMI will cause issues on the other 2 monitors. Try disabling all your sync options and play a game to narrow this issue down.

[Twsted]

Publicado originalmente por notkennyS:

Publicado originalmente por Twsted:

I didnt know that. The company said and I quote:
"turn on Freesync on your monitor, then go to control panel and enable G-Sync in control panel."

I followed those exact steps they told me to do.

You must use DP for Gsync too, DP to HDMI will cause issues on the other 2 monitors. Try disabling all your sync options and play a game to narrow this issue down.

Ok, I just ordered 2 more DP to DP on Amazon so I will get rid of the HDMI connection
as soon as the cables arrive.
Ok, also just to clarify :)
So disable Freesync and G-sync on ALL the monitors and then play a game to see what happens ?
is that what you are saying ? :)

I am also going to try what Reboot said, by disconnecting the 3rd monitor to see if it happens with just to monitors connected. :)