I’m running into a very odd issue that I’m having trouble finding the cause.
Last Epoch itself runs without issues. I have aboslutely no issues running the game with any combination of settings. However, the same can’t be said for applications running that are not the primary focus (something on my second or third monitors). My main complaint of this is I’m unable to put on a YouTube video in the background. However, the issue is not specific to YouTube or even the browser. Any application that is not the main focus (Last Epoch) seems to be bottle necked and I’m not sure why.
My PC is no slouch, but here’s some specifics:
Ryzen 9 7800x3d
48GB DDR5 @ 5000Mhz
RTX 4090
Win 11 Pro
1st Display 244Hz w/G-Sync
2nd Display 244Hz w/G-Sync
In-Game Fixes I’ve Tried:
- Adjusting graphics quality
- Limiting foreground, background, and menu FPS
- Enabling V-Sync
- Disabling sound (Sound drivers can be wacky sometimes!)
- Windowed Borderless / Windowed
- Forcing the game to run in directx12 -force-d3d12 command (Idk if this is even supported, actually made LE run worse)
Out-of-Game Fixes I’ve Tried:
- Updating drivers
- Repaired game files
- Manually enabling both displays with G-Sync in NVIDIA Control Panel (Borderless & Fullscreen)
- Disabling hardware acceleration in Chromium based browsers
- Disabling CPU’s integrated graphics
- Adding Last Epoch to HAGS in Windows (Hardware Accellerated GPU Scheduling)
- Disabling any game capture software. (I don’t use ShadowPlay, but I use SteelSeries Moments)
- Disabling anything that has in-game overlays (Discord / Steam)
- Disabling any monitor/display detected by my PC that does not have the same refresh rate as the main monitor. (244hz/244hz/60hz, I unplugged the 60hz for testing)
Nothing I have tried so far has worked, and trust me I’m not just posting my issue without trying what I can find on the internet first. I’ve come across a few threads of people having the same exact issue, but I’ve been less lucky then them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/1baxx9a/second_monitor_issues_after_patchhotfix/
https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/128ytjb/last_epoch_messes_up_2nd_monitor/
The video below is a screen capture of my second monitor while LE is open. It’s nothing exciting, but you can see that the video is extremely choppy and even has to reload at one point. It was recorded at 60FPS 1080p. The choppyness you see is what I see, and not a result of the recording process.
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.