Monitor 1 Digial. Monitor 2 Analog. Doable or not.

[Ligion]

Long time reader, First time poster.

I just started this stuff last night. Stayed up till around 330ish fiddling with it. (It is actually quite addictive) The set up that I want to go for is:

Monitor 1 (the nice one) Full screen main character

Monitor 2 (the bad analog one) 4 accounts split screen.

Granted I don't think I have the monster machine yet to handle that however, does 1 monitor being digital and 1 monitor being analog severely drop FPS? Would I be better off for the time being until I get my haus machine by putting like 3 account on the digital one. I hear that splitting it onto another port like that kills your framerate. Especially if you don't have the superior GC. With 4 Shamans going last night I dropped down to 4fps on ALL instances of wow. However if I run 1 to play normally I hit around 120. Just thought that could be the cause

Here is my crappy system specs just for kicks and giggles. I figure its a good starter up for boxing.

Intel Pentium D Processor 830 (3GHz) w/ Dual Core Technology

1GB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz

256MB PCI Express x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce 6800

[Xzin]

DVI / VGA isn't the problem. You need far more mem and a better graphics card.

If you are using XP, enable horizontal span.

[Ligion]

So we are talking what? I will need about say 4 gigs of DDR2 (whats the minimum here, I know that 4 is tops)

and will http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Games/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A1363357 work for me.

And also :P , when another card is bought (i thought that was 99% of the problem anyway) should I run both cards, or just that one. 1 card for the primary and 1 card for the 4 split. or go both from same card.

[bryanc]

and will http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Games/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A1363357 work for me.

And also :P , when another card is bought (i thought that was 99% of the problem anyway) should I run both cards, or just that one. 1 card for the primary and 1 card for the 4 split. or go both from same card.

WIth 4G of ram in the machine, I'm running the 256M version of that card for 5 just fine (so far, I haven't been doing this nigh on a week now). I can't speak to splitting between the two cards.

[Ligion]

Thanks for the super fast feedback community.

I can see that I will be spending a good deal of time here.

I just purchased 4gb of ram that should be delivered tomorrow and since tomorrow = payday bring on the videocard :P

Getting excited now. how lame :P