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Hello,

For context, i have 4 monitors connected to my PC:
-TV (1080p 60Hz)
-Main Monitor 1 (1080p 144Hz)
-Side Monitor 2 (1080p 60/75Hz)
-Side Monitor 3 (1080p 60Hz)
Monitor 2 and TV are duplicated.

System Specs:
Ryzen7 3800X
Geforce RTX 2070 Super
32 GB DDR4 3200MHz (Dual Channel)
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
UPlay Client
Game runs on a Samsung 970EVO NVME SSD

So here's my problem:

When playing TM, no matter fullscreen or windowed, i get stable 144 FPS or more. For some reason though, when i have a Youtube video or any video source for that matter running on another monitor, TM starts to lag and stutter, while the FPS stay at 144+.
If i play the video and change the tab in chrome so that i only hear the audio and the video is not visible anymore, TM runs smooth again. Same happens when i try to stream with OBS, i get my perfect framerate but the game just stutters for no obvious reason. When i turn off the preview in OBS it gets much better but still far from smooth. I tried to disconnect 2 monitors to see if thats an issue, but to no avail. Same problem existed for me since TM2 and i still haven't figured out a way to solve it nor have i found any other information regarding this problem.
Also Trackmania is the only game where i have this issue. I can play / stream almost everything i tried, from old games with no modern optimization to even COD MW although i have to turn the quality down a bit on COD, but still why is a video playing on another monitor affecting my expirience in Trackmania?
about 4 years ago - Ubi-Milky - Direct link
Hello Raveout, thank you for getting in contact with us about your FPS stuttering.

Usually for all of our games we would recommend using one monitor, checking your network settings and disabling any background processes such as OBS in order for the game to perform at its maximum capacity and frame rate. This extends to Trackmania too. Obviously this is not ideal if you would like to stream the game, but this is typically what we would recommend,

There are however some other fixes you can try to try to prevent your frame rate stuttering, some of these include -

- Enable Vsync in the menu and in your GPU Nvidia software
- Check you meet the minimum requirements for the game and how much of your Vram you may be using
- Update your GPU, Windows OS and Network Card
- Verify your games files
- Re-install any supporting software required for the game
- Check to see if running conflicting software in the background (disable them and perform a clean boot)
- Perform some connectivity troubleshooting -
○ Remove other devices from network
○ Use Ethernet instead of WIFI
○ Check speed https://www.speedtest.net/

Please try all of the above steps to see if you see an improvement and let me know if you need help with any of them along the way? Thank you.
about 4 years ago - Ubi-Milky - Direct link
Hey u.B.m, thanks for sharing your settings for the game.

We recommend enabling Vsync as ideally, we recommend players only use one monitor when playing our games, as this can cause more compatibility problems when introducing more components into your set up, however, I appreciate you adding your experience with Gsync on multiple monitor set ups, so it will be interesting to find out if this can help with our other players set up as well, if they are adamant on using multiple monitors providing they have the Gsync ability also on theirs.

Thank you for contributing!