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Having significant performance issues one specific computer tied to dynamic lighting - please help!

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Edit: This is using the new dynamic lighting not legacy Normally this wouldn't come up but my desktop is in need of some repairs so it is offline. I'm using my MSI gaming laptop that I bought in 2019 (so pretty decently powered) to run roll20 for our weekly group. During session prep and running the game I noticed that I am experiencing significant and painful lag. Like picking up a token and dragging it, it lags for seconds behind cursor and is extremely painful. I don't have this issue on my desktop or even more work desktop which doesn't have a beefy graphics card. specifics: Home Desktop uses a 1080 GPU, laptop has a 2070 GPU with comparable CPU Both computers are running Roll20 in Chrome, though I am open to other options. In Chrome the option for graphics acceleration is checked on. Even on my work computer the map with dynamic lighting works just fine with no lag. Is there a setting or something that I am missing? Is there something about my laptop I can change to fix this problem? It makes no sense and I am frustrated beyond belief.
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keithcurtis
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Have you tried toggling hardware acceleration off? Some setups work better one way, some the other. Do you get the issue in a private browsing window? It could be a difference in extensions. Do you get the issue in a completely different browser? This would help to point toward a hardware/OS conflict rather than a browser setting.
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I will try those things when I get home and provide an update.  My work computer, which is fairly weak, with incognito mode on and acceleration on it runs it fine. I'm a little shocked that those settings could have a random impact on my laptop.
Its probably because its a gaming laptop and chrome/firefox are NOT applications that automatically spin up the gaming card, they are probably trying to use the onboard graphics.  This is probably going to be hard for you to pull off because its usually not wise to run the gaming card for desktop graphics but you are probably going to have to find the setting in nvidia's control panel and make chrome and firefox use the gaming card, it is very likely set to not atm.  
Can confirm this was in fact the issue. Went into both Nvidia control panel and windows settings and allowed Chrome to use hardware acceleration and now it runs smoothly. Thank you!