Issues gaming in Fullscreen vs Windowed

Ckorban

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I'm getting a really weird issue where any game will hit 0 to 1 fps for about 10 seconds and when I'm loading the game, and several times during the actual game, but if I alt-tab out and back in during the freeze period, it does fine until a couple minutes later. The problem is completely gone if I play in windowed mode at the same resolution as full-screen, but full-screen has the problem...

It's an Aorus x5 laptop, (965m SLI), and I game on an external Acer Predator xb271hu in 1440p, 144hz(def not hitting 144fps, but the monitor is set to 144hz).

During the 0 or 1 fps freeze time, MSI afterburner tells me I'm not using either GPU at all, big fat 0% usage.

Any ideas?

Games I'm having problems with:
Dota2, Titanfall2, Heroes of the Storm, BF1

Apologies if this isn't in the right place... Should it be in Ask a Question?
 
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