FPS on 2nd screen

[Enti]

K well as you know I'm starting dual-boxing.
I do half screen for each screen on 24" monitor, the left one being the one I main as, other on follow.
The left one usually has around 35-45 FPS staying in that region, however the right one is sitting at around 15-20 FPS max compared to the one on the left. any way I can either make both stay around the same or boost up the one on the right?

[Wilbur]

Using XP?

[Enti]

Using XP?indeed.

[Wilbur]

Use Horizontal span instead of Dual View, see if this improves your FPS.

[Enti]

Use Horizontal span instead of Dual View, see if this improves your FPS.That the only way? Horizontal looks pretty ugly to me, I like them being closer to square if it's dual-screening not 6 inches high and 2 feet wide heh.
Wouldn't mind upgrading the FPS on my main WoW too if anyone knows some ways to tweak something up

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT w/ 512.0 MB Display Memory with 2GB RAM, Windows XP-SP2 if you wanted to know some stuff about my comp. Tell me if you need anything else or if someone could help me get either one or both WoWs to a higher FPS

[Wilbur]

Horizontal span is a Windows Display mode and an alternative to Dual view. Not how you have your windows laid out for WoW.

Then you just have to use Maximiser to set the WOW windows so they display where you want.

[Enti]

Horizontal span is a Windows Display mode and an alternative to Dual view. Not how you have your windows laid out for WoW.

Then you just have to use Maximiser to set the WOW windows so they display where you want.Ahh okay, I'll try that, thanks.

[Enti]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I can't seem to find anywhere to put it in Horizontal Span unless I have 2 monitors connected.. If I have one it doesn't allow me to.. So.. yeah..

Edit: I've gotten the FPS on both boxes to be about 30-45 FPS staying there for both.. However now that my right screens FPS has improved.. it's having a slight delay it seems with keyclone.. It's /following slower, when I start a spell with a key it has like a full second delay instead of casting both the spells at the same time, and such. Any known reason for that?

[pegasus00000]

I don't know about you guys, but I have 2 video cards, one monitor for each screen, and so far I can run average 30 FPS for each characters. As for 1 video card, 2 monitors, I read it on one of the sticky, that you run first character into game, and switch your primary/secondary monitor, and run your second character, the FPS will stay the same.

[zanthor]

This guy has 1 monitor.

He's split a wide display in half...

1920x1200 display split as two 960x1200 windows... (or 1680x1050 split, etc).

I think what you are seeing is that windows gives the primary focus more resources than other windows. As long as you are above 10-15fps it shouldn't matter.

[tl1234]

OK, this is coming completely from experience with computers, and hardly any experience multiboxing

NVidia and ATI software HATES onboard graphics... If you randomly have a 2nd monitor and only a single head graphic card, its a mess but if you can installl the driver without the other software, you can dual screen with that set up. If you are using this setup, upgrade before you start getting serious about trying stuff like this.

DirectX didn't add acceleration to a 2nd display until either DX8 or 9. So you're fine so far, but XP still limits resources to a 2nd display, so running WoW on a 2nd display in XP probably means its not working. Some people can get away with running WoW in OpenGL on the 2nd display and it works perfect (Right click the launcher shortcut -> Properties... at the end of "Shortcut" add -opengl (ex. Shortcut: "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Launcher.exe" -opengl)) Downside if this works... you cant use the hardware cursor anymore (probly not using it too much anyway) and WoW doesn't look as "pretty", but performance > graphic quality when you're doing something like this.

Your best thing to do, no matter what, is upgrade your hardware. But before you do that, you gotta really look at what youre trying to do. You can buy a really good card for $250 or spend $100 more and get a new cheap computer... The way computers are now, a $350 computer will run WoW surprisingly good, i would recommend upgrading the RAM and Video card with the computer (about $500 total (GeForce 5series works more than good enough for WoW)). But the 1 thing you have to look at before you do this, is your internet connection. 2 computers take up more of your bandwidth than 1, you probably wont notice too much of a difference if you have DSL and ONLY 2 computers running in your house. But a 3rd and you'll start seeing some horrible lag...

Or the easy fix for now, turn on horizontal span and learn how to use maximizer, true, your desktop will look pretty bad if it looks too cool on 1 monitor, but you care about getting WoW working :)