So running two cards? One for the main display and the second card for the slave accounts gives the main the same performance as if it were running a single account (apart from the CPU load) ? I am considering upgrading from a 6970 to a 7970 due to a monitor upgrade and so I am wondering which would be the better upgrade, a second 6970 which would allow crossfire in other games and still give me good performance in Rift or going with the single 7970 which would cost about $200 more that the 6970. My main display is running at 2560x1600 and the 2 secondary displays are at 1600x1200.
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So can anyone confirm that running ISBoxer with main screen using one video card and two secondary screens using a second video card would provide a similar gaming perfomance on the main screen as if it were running a solo characters? I know CPU/memory might be an issue, but strictly on the video card front would it be a true statement???
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http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Allspark
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Shámán
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&cn=Shammyhealz
I can't confirm ISBoxer but, it should provide the same as running solo assuming you have the settings in your slave WoWs to run from the secondary monitors. But, I'm no hardware person so I could totally be wrong.
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As long as you keep each instance of wow on it's own monitor/video card then theoretically yes. As soon as you move an instance from one card to another you take a performance hit.
There are quite a few older threads on this with more details. If I can get to a computer I'll see what I can find.
Well I purchased a 7970 and it should be here today. I may try and run it along with my 6970 but I am not sure my power supply has enough power or enough connections
My 5 Man team
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Abhram
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Stallker
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Allspark
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Shámán
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&cn=Shammyhealz
I got the new card and installed it. Overall I went from average of around 22fps and this now has gone up to 33fps. In the process I downloaded the AMD system monitor tool from AMD and it seems the bottleneck is not the 7970, it is maxing out at 66% utilization in Rift with 5 clients running. My cpu is also maxing out at 70% and memory is at around 8gig out of 12gig available. The main drive is a 120gig SSD.
So kinda strange, I presume it is just a badly optimized engine in Rift.
My 5 Man team
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Abhram
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Stallker
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Allspark
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Shámán
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&cn=Shammyhealz
The 680s are out btw and they are cheaper and faster than any single GPU out atm.
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My 5 Man team
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Abhram
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Stallker
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Allspark
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Shámán
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&cn=Shammyhealz
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