Dual Monitor Lag in CS6

I've been running CS6 on my laptop for the past month with no issues regarding lag.
Today I decided to start using an old monitor as a second display, but whenever it's plugged in there is a huge amount of lag within Photoshop - so much lag that it is pretty much unusable.
From what I can tell, most other programs run fine with this setup (I've tried Sai and After Effects, and both are lag free).
I've tried searching this issue - and there's a lot about configuring refresh rates on the individual monitors so they're the same. Tried that - makes no difference.
Just wondering if anyone knew of a setting within Photoshop I could tweak to make it run better?

Sounds like your GPU is underpowered for 2 displays, or there is a problem with the driver.
Have you tried turning off GPU drawing in Photoshop's preferences?
What OS version are you using?
What GPU?

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