FPS Impact on GTA V and CS:GO When Connecting HP 1280x1024 with Benq 1920x1080 to GTX 750 Ti

Question

Hello.
I'm going to buy myself a second HP 1280x1024 monitor; the current one is 1920 x 1080 by Benq. I want to connect these monitors to a Gigabyte gtx 750 ti graphics card and a Xeon e5450 3.7GHz processor. Will I have FPS drops if I play on the Benq monitor and, for example, browse the Internet on the HP monitor or just watch a movie? I'm mainly talking about GTA V and CS:GO games.

Rockmancar · Answer

The card will be more loaded, but the drops are rather imperceptible. Have you thought about connecting a second monitor to the integrated graphics card? It will relieve the graphics, and since you're going to be browsing the Internet there anyway, it probably doesn't make a difference?

Eniek66 · Answer

If it could, then why not, but it probably won't work.

Rockmancar · Answer

It will work if you enable it in the BIOS so that the integrated one is always on.

Advanced BIOS Features > Onboard VGA set to "Always Enable"

Case solved. You connect a second monitor to the integrated one and you don't worry about FPS.

masterpcradom · Answer

Only a few bios have the option of both at once. Usually it is either or, and in practice the integrated one supports computationally dedicated adding icing on the cake, this is by no means in the case of nvidia.

Rockmancar · Answer

Right, but if a colleague has such an option, it solves his problem completely. I don't know if he's doing a good job, but it would probably be best to buy an older graphics card for the second monitor if we want to keep things smooth and avoid the slightest drops.

masterpcradom · Answer

Unfortunately, your intentions are good, but you are a bit wrong with the facts.
In practice, maybe once I met the option to use two cards, but one is always the master, and the other is just a booster. by connecting in this way, it is rather impossible to achieve the goal of either a switch or an adapter for 2 monitors. You can connect several monitors, but always to one card or a bridge system of cards.
What does an older card have here, what's the point of buying something older?

Rockmancar · Answer

The point was that if the user wants to use the second monitor only for browsing the Internet or movies, then a weaker/older/used card would be enough. However, this defeats the purpose, because as you wrote: The conclusion is that the author of the topic has 3 options: 1. He buys a second card and connects them in SLI / CF - we connect monitors to separate cards. 2. Uses a dual monitor adapter. 3. It connects to one card and counts with a few fps'ami less. I have to thank you for that, because I'm on this forum not only to help as far as possible, but above all to learn something, so I partly expect forum users to correct me.

Eniek66 · Answer

This is an Asus P5Q-EM board and there is no option to connect 2 graphics cards here because there is simply no second pci x16 input.
I don't see an option like:

Rockmancar wrote:
Advanced BIOS Features > Onboard VGA set to "Always Enable"

I have photos of the bios here from the advanced tab, maybe you can understand which option it is and the question of whether it is at all.

Rockmancar · Answer

Unfortunately, there is no such option in this board, it remains to connect two to one card. With normal use of the Internet, the drops will be small. If your gaming monitor is 60Hz and you keep your games above 60fps, you won't feel anything at all, even if it drops from 80fps to 65, because a 60Hz monitor won't display more than 60fps.

n.vision · Answer

On my AMD card (R7 370), I only include videos for simple games like ETS2 or Cities Skylines, where even if there are performance drops, you don't pay attention to them. If I was playing something more story-driven, like The Witcher 3, I turned off the movie, because AAA games are too absorbing to do two such intensely attention-demanding things at once. Reality validates and eliminates a potential performance issue before it even occurs (one of the situations where a philosophical disposition is an obstacle

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Anyway, I never noticed any problems or performance drops by doing this. Displaying the desktop didn't make any noticeable difference to my card either. If it makes a difference to you, then come over, because now thinking about a second graphics card is, in my opinion, thinking much too much

Eniek66 · Answer

My monitor arrived today and I have two annoying problems:
1. When I have the game turned on on the main monitor and I want to, for example, enter the browser on the second monitor, the game minimizes
2. It's that some apps when I open on the second screen it shows on this main screen.
Anyone know how to fix it?

n.vision · Answer

You need to set the game to play in a borderless window in the game settings, it depends on the game whether it allows such an option. Newer games allow this more often. Maybe something can be done in Windows, or in the software of the graphics card wj, but I don't know anything about it. I have no clue about the other issues.

Eniek66 · Answer

I have a problem in the CS:GO game, can you explain to me how to set it up? Or maybe there is some program to block the minimization of the game.

n.vision · Answer

It's somewhere in the graphics settings, if it's there at all. I used to see these options next to resolution. You just don't set full screen, just windowed or bordless windowed or something like that. If the game is open in a window then you know that you won't minimize when you switch to another window. A window is a window. So a frameless window was invented for this purpose, because it looks nicer and seemingly looks like full screen when it's on top. I remember this option for sure in gta 5. But that's really all my knowledge about it

Eniek66 · Answer

Everything works now, this video helped me:

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