Windows 1H 2020 update

[MajorFoley]

So heard that Windows is finally updating their WDM although there still might be some issues from different refresh rate monitors. One of those workarounds usually suggested was to turn off hardware acceleration in your browsers or apps when you were playing games. Will this update let us turn it back on?

[Chief Blur Buster]

One of those workarounds usually suggested was to turn off hardware acceleration in your browsers or apps when you were playing games. Will this update let us turn it back on?

I never had to turn off hardware acceleration in browsers, as long as I was playing my game in full-screen-exclusive on the primary monitor.

You probably will get a bit more flexibility with the new drivers, but people will need to test this more fully.

[MajorFoley]

One of those workarounds usually suggested was to turn off hardware acceleration in your browsers or apps when you were playing games. Will this update let us turn it back on?

I never had to turn off hardware acceleration in browsers, as long as I was playing my game in full-screen-exclusive on the primary monitor.

You probably will get a bit more flexibility with the new drivers, but people will need to test this more fully.

Thanks for the info, I prefer to play in borderless window just for the ease of alt tabbing while streaming so im hoping this will help with some of that. Guess its gonna be a wait and see game.

[Chief Blur Buster]

Thanks for the info, I prefer to play in borderless window just for the ease of alt tabbing while streaming so im hoping this will help with some of that. Guess its gonna be a wait and see game.

Be careful you have nothing in motion on the 2nd monitor because Windows compositing create some pretty bad behaviours. Running www.testufo.com/animation-time-graph on the primary monitor tends to get quite nasty when there's any motion in any window on the 2nd monitor.

Hopefully the new 1H 2020 update helps with this.

[MajorFoley]

Thanks for the info, I prefer to play in borderless window just for the ease of alt tabbing while streaming so im hoping this will help with some of that. Guess its gonna be a wait and see game.

Be careful you have nothing in motion on the 2nd monitor because Windows compositing create some pretty bad behaviours. Running www.testufo.com/animation-time-graph on the primary monitor tends to get quite nasty when there's any motion in any window on the 2nd monitor.

Hopefully the new 1H 2020 update helps with this.

It's what I'm hoping for (most of us i reckon), and yeah i ran a couple of old games, mainly AVP2: Primal hunt and boy if i had OBS active on the 2nd window it played hell with the games framerate, hid the preview and it fixed the issue.
Hopefully Microsoft won't make too many mistakes with this.

EDIT: Do you ever think Microsoft will enable separate compositor threads for each monitor? This fix is like a half full moment.