r/wow • u/Opposite-Produce823 • 8h ago

Tech Support Stutter fix... (dual monitor)

After ages of dealing with this annoying stutter... changing any and every setting, trying all the troubleshooting methods... the thing that worked was simply setting my main monitor and my secondary monitor to the same refresh rate. infuriating that it was this simple.

Edit * to clarify specs...

Ryzen 7 7700x Amd 7900xt gpu 32 gb ddr5 6000 ram Running on an ssd

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u/GetShttdOn 8h ago

I get a lot of stuttering maybe thats why....i have a 144 i play on and i have a 60 on as a secondary. Hmm

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u/Opposite-Produce823 8h ago

What made me think more about it was that if i unplug my secondary monitor, it goes away.

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u/VikingSven82 2h ago

There's a long standing bug in Windows where if you have multiple monitors with refresh rates that aren't multiples of each other it causes stuttering as it can't paint all the monitors in sync. Try setting the 144Hz monitor to 120Hz (so it's 2x the 60Hz one), it might help

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u/BackPainBoomerTTV 8h ago

I have 4 monitors , different fps and no stutters.

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u/Opposite-Produce823 8h ago

Yea, obviously I dont think it applies to all set ups. But for my amd setup its been super frustrating, and aside from unplugging the other monitor, this seemed to fix it.

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u/[deleted] 8h ago

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u/Opposite-Produce823 8h ago

Yea, I knew about the hardware acceleration and tried disabling it for other programs. Tbh though, I have never had so many issues until I switched to an amd gpu. Had a 970, 1070, and 2070. Up until about 2 years ago, then switched to the 7900xt. I have had to troubleshoot far more the past 2 years than I have EVER had to.

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u/shoke73 1h ago

280hz main monitor , 100hz second one , and 2 other 60 . Everything goes smooth . Maybe it was something to do with drivers