I just got a new monitor and set it up without issue accept for when the computer sleeps, the tabs get shuffled and the pc seems to mix up which monitor is which. The old monitors are the exact same model ( a 144hz 1080p 28" AOC monitors) the new one is a 160hz 34" 1440p LG. The new large one is in the middle. The display settings have the new one set to the main display (order is 213). When I wake the computer, the monitors all seem to glitch a bit while waking up before the windows get mixed up (the left one seems to not do this; I think it might be the middle one affecting the right one).Also the left and middle are on display port(1.2 I think) the right monitor is on hdmi as I didn't have another dp cable.
The tabs on the right monitor in maximized mode tend to go to the left monitor in small mode and the tabs that aren't maximized get moved to the left monitor. Tabs in the left monitor have gone to the middle or stayed in place and didn't change size. To make it more confusing, a game I play changes which monitor it wants to be displayed on despite the setting in game not changing (escape from tarkov). It was set to the LG and was still set to the LG but was opening on the right monitor. I swapped the setting to one of the AOC monitors and got the left monitor and then the other AOC monitor put it on the center LG monitor.
I've attempted to follow someone elses fix (device manager - monitors - remove extra monitors (there were none) - update drivers (they are all up to date according to windows))I tried a different workaround where you lock the pc before it sleeps; this resulted in it waking with the buggy screens as mentioned before but once I logged in, windows were in the locations I left them.
any ideas?
PC
- I7-9700F
- 32GB ddr4 memory
- Internal SSD
- FE RTX 3070
--- UPDATE ---So I found a solution-ish. I can remove the issue by changing some settings. I set the monitor sleep time and the pc sleep time to the same value such that when the system goes to sleep it wakes up on the lock screen. This prevents the monitors from attempting to place the windows until after everything is awake and the pc is unlocked. The downside is it forces you to the lock screen every time your system goes to sleep but that's a minor annoyance and probably better for security anyways.