This is a bit of a complex issue that I will do my best to describe clearly.
I'm using a laptop with an external gpu, running a dosbox game in steam with boxtron. I'm casting the game to my TV with the steam remote play feature and a steam link.
The game runs fine if I were only to play it on my monitor attached to the gpu.
With egpus it's sometimes recommended to use only the external display and not also render the game on the laptop screen as well, for better performance.
I am finding however, that if I switch off the laptop display in my desktop settings this results in continuous flickering in the cast display of the game on my TV - but not on the monitor attached to the computer/gpu itself. It seems to be caused by my moving the mouse cursor - perhaps related to the steam overlay. If I switch on my laptop screen again, the flickering on the TV stops.
In this way there is instead a few sound/lag glitches, but it is better.
I notice that when the screen is open like this, and I look at the computer, the 'window' of the dosbox game is in fullscreen on the external monitor, but there is an overlap with the edge of the game window extending onto the laptop display as well.
I'm posting this here because I get the flickering problems only when running dosbox games in Steam and casting them, not with other Steam games and casting them. Even though I would expect modern games to be more demanding to play and cast from my computer.
Perhaps someone here knows what this means and if there's anything I can change to correct this? Changing dosbox/boxtron configuration file somehow?
Thank you.
This is a bit of a complex issue that I will do my best to describe clearly.
I'm using a laptop with an external gpu, running a dosbox game in steam with boxtron. I'm casting the game to my TV with the steam remote play feature and a steam link.
The game runs fine if I were only to play it on my monitor attached to the gpu.
With egpus it's sometimes recommended to use only the external display and not also render the game on the laptop screen as well, for better performance.
I am finding however, that if I switch off the laptop display in my desktop settings this results in continuous flickering in the cast display of the game on my TV - but not on the monitor attached to the computer/gpu itself. It seems to be caused by my moving the mouse cursor - perhaps related to the steam overlay. If I switch on my laptop screen again, the flickering on the TV stops.
In this way there is instead a few sound/lag glitches, but it is better.
I notice that when the screen is open like this, and I look at the computer, the 'window' of the dosbox game is in fullscreen on the external monitor, but there is an overlap with the edge of the game window extending onto the laptop display as well.
I'm posting this here because I get the flickering problems only when running dosbox games in Steam and casting them, not with other Steam games and casting them. Even though I would expect modern games to be more demanding to play and cast from my computer.
Perhaps someone here knows what this means and if there's anything I can change to correct this? Changing dosbox/boxtron configuration file somehow?
Thank you.