2nd Monitor causing Low FPS?

[Crisys]

Hello, I have been boxing now for awhile...and I have been using 1 monitor (1 large screen and 3 side boxes) but recently I have gotten another 22" and so I decided that I wanted to just test Dual Boxing. Main on 1 screena and Slave on the other. What I noticed is that it is causing both screens to lagg (LOW FPS) as if they were both being ran in the background....

I use Keyclone......Is there any way to fix this problem?

BTW...in my Video setting I set both my monitors is Indepent....if that matters....

Thank you in advanced!

[EaTCarbS]

system specs?

[king.pa]

I switched from a 24" + 20" to a 24"+ 22" then two 24"...
my geforce 8800 GTX had some issues from 20" to 22" and I switched from the 8800 GTX to the HD 4890 along with a second 24" monitor, and it worked very well but still I tried the two 24" with the 8800 GTX in the first place and it wasn't that great... thrust me !!

as you change the clones's windows sizes, the area to draw grow.. and with this growth, the number of pixels and polygons to be handled by the video card grow too...
you have to consider those sort of things when you change your system comp

[Meathead]

Also try to use windows 7 due to the fact it works better with dual monitors for your card' or cards. Well it does for me!

[Crisys]

Well I can play everything fine on 1 screen....I have a shitty 256mb Video Card with Turbo 512mb and 2 gigs of ram....but I just didn't see the issue....but I guess I will def need to upgrade my rig it I want this to work the way I want....

I guess I will have to continue to Mutlibox using 1 monitor and little squares :(


Thanx!

[Deumus]

Windows XP is a very bad OS for multiboxing.

On Win XP (and 2 monitors), I have ~35FPS on first WoW and ~20FPS on second WoW.
On Win 7 (and 2 monitors), I have 60 FPS on first WoW and 30 FPS on second WoW. And It's limited by Innerspace.

I try Win XP with 4 monitors... It's horrible! And no problem on Win 7.

[Crisys]

Thats Interesting......maybe I will def look into getting Windows 7!

[Furf]

Where does one go to get windows 7? Just the main site?

[Silence]

Where does one go to get windows 7? Just the main site?

Transfer some cash to Billy Gatesy and he'll make sure you get your copy in the mail ;p

But anyway, Windows 7 isn't out yet... What you can do is install the release candidate and see how that works. It's valid for a year at no cost.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/download.aspx

[Furf]

thank you.

[alcattle]

Micro$haft (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/download.aspx)

sorry (http://Sorry, the Windows 7 RC is no longer available for download. If you’ve got the download and need a product key, they’ll be available until October 21, 2009.)that's gone

[Furf]

Yup was just about to post that it was gone. BUMMER. Oh well Now I have to wait till retail comes out or go back to 64bit vista. I am back on 64bit xp and well I lost SO much performance. Before I was getting around 30 fps on all 5 WoWs and now I am down to 20 or so fps.

[rocnroll]

Are you saying that Vista 64bit has better performance than XP 64bit?

I was too slow to get a download of Windows 7 also. :(