Ideally all monitors should only be plugged into the primary GPU (or SLI/CrossFire devices) to get the best hardware acceleration in Windows. With a dedicated card installed, that will be your primary GPU (and it should, otherwise there would not be much point in it). I'm afraid that won't work, the desktop window from Windows which contains the wallpaper is 'always' rendered by the primary GPU and this would have to be changed to work around the entire issue. It goes through my 2060 because the monitor itself is connected to the video output of the card, right? So, i just plug the secondary into the onboard HDMI port, and, then it wont go through the Nvidia card anymore, right? Originally posted by Flytrap:Okay, that gave me an idea. Which is why i wanted it to go through integrated. Creating stop and pause settings for borderless wont work for fullscreen, or at the very least, im having trouble sorting the entangled spaghetti out in my brain.Ĭoordinating all of these variables seems like hell.

Thanks for the advice but the problem is that i have a second monitor, and it'd be nice if WE could keep running on that, while paused on my main, and while i prefer using borderless in every game i can, some games i can only run at standard fullscreen. If you're on a laptop then Wallpaper Engine runs on the integrated GPU by default already, but you can use the same menu to choose either GPU.

You can find all of these in the performance settings in Wallpaper Engine. You can configure it to 'stop' while having a game (or anything else fullscreen) automatically which will entirely remove any load from the GPU just as if Wallpaper Engine wasn't running while you're playing a game, that would work much better. Wallpaper Engine has a lot of automatic pausing functions. Your monitor is connected to the 2060 so instead of reducing the load you just add more load overall (on the integrated GPU) because it still needs to go through the 2060 anyway. Originally posted by Biohazard:You can do this in the Windows graphics settings that you can reach from the Windows settings menu.īut if you are on a desktop computer, then doing this will degrade the performance overall.

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