Dual Screen with 7970M issues

I have a new TFT to accompany my P170EM laptop, playing Bf4. What im trying to do is have BF4 playing off my TFT but have Chrome open on my laptop.

Playing off the TFT is fine, im getting 120fps from BF4 but when i open chrome on the laptop screen it drops the fps to around 40, like ive gone from high performance to balanced. Does it have something to do with the power settings for chrome possible? Any help would be appreciated.

 

Have you tried a different browser? Is it a focus issue (make sure the game is the primary window).

 

Chrome and IE are fine but its when i open the battelog, odd as its just browser based so not sure why such a hit

 

So ive done some more testing - my setup is thus:

Laptop is secondary display
TFT is primary display (but set as display 2)
Running as an extended display
Power source is high priority

Now whenever i put something on the secondary display is kills the performance on the main TFT display. Its like as soon as something goes on the extended display it drains my resources, i lose like 50% of fps on games. Im only using a browser so it shouldnt take up resources to take half my system..

 

Try turning off windows aero.

 

Does win8 have aero?

also im running a classic shell so not sure if thats having an impact?

 

Try experimenting with Power saving/High performance settings for the browser in AMD CCC Switchable Graphics Application Settings.

 

tried mate... failed

 

This for as far as i know is a problem with the battlelog app and bf4 open at the same time. Everything works perfectly fine when i play bf4 on the secondary monitor with chrome on the laptop display, but when i open battlelog(battlescreen in particular) i drop from 60 to 34 fps. I kind of assumed this was a BF4 problem and the fact that you're browser is running of the iGPU and BF4 is running of the dGPU. Have you tried running both chrome and BF4 on the dGPU?