NVIDIA FPS throttling in unfocused windows not working anymore since a week

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When multiboxing I use the NVIDIA setting to reduce the FPS of windows which are not in focus to reduce the load on my computer.

This used to work with DX11 untill recently; getting high FPS in the focused window and 30 FPS (that’s the setting I used in NVIDIA panel) in the unfocused windows.

Since a week or so this is no longer working, and I don’t get the 30 FPS that I chose in the NVIDIA panel, but rather something close to 60FPS (not exactly 60FPS, sometimes little higher, sometimes little lower).

Anyone has been able to still throttle the unfocused windows FPS, and did you do it? Perhaps some other setting broke the functionality?

Thanks in advance!

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This issue is also really bothering me, I am trying to run 2 accounts side by side on an ultrawide monitor and my focused window is at 250 FPS and the unfocused window is at 5! FPS

The worst part is that when you switch focus to the other character there is a huge lag spike as the game all of a sudden struggles to go from 5 to 250 FPS.

PLEASE FIX THIS!

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Yeap this is happening. Cant control the background FPS via Nvidia Control Panel anymore

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Same sh*t((. I have two 2k 180hz asus, but same problem. CCP — how about some fix?

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Guessing you already checked for an update for nvidia control panel?

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I’m always using fresh soft

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I don’t have any problems with unfocused star sitizen window.

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I found a fix for this from an earlier post. I have a 1080ti ROG on a Z390 ROG motherboard. At first my monitors were not working when one window was unfocused. Here is what I did and it works perfectly at variable frequencies for each monitor (239.4 and 120Hz) with medium graphics settings on both windows (I probably could run it on high settings for each but have not tried it yet).

  1. Change to Direct X 11 mode

  2. Open task manager, click the dropdown for the app “EVE Online”. Here you see multiple files running under the EVE Online app umbrella. Find the one that says “EVE - (your username)” - For me this was a black icon and the others were green.

  3. Right click the file mentioned in step 2. Click on “open file location”.

  4. Find the “exefile.exe” file lol weird name but its again a black icon with an “E”.

  5. Right click that file and select “Properties”. click on the “Compatibility” tab. Check the box that says “Disable Full Screen Optimizations”

  6. I would recommend setting both monitors to run at the same frequency and lower your graphics settings for the initial test run. Then you can change depending on your systems performance ability.

Thats it! You should be able to run both windows with one instance of eve each and not experience the throttling delay on the unfocused window.

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Also if that doesnt work then you can try to download the full eve program:

  1. Open EVE launcher, click on the gear icon in the top right (settings)

  2. Click on EVE Online in the left menu

  3. Check the box for “Download the full EVE game client”

And, IF none of those things work for you (previous post, and above):

You can download ISBoxer and use the option for focusing two windows. This is not free but it works.