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Ohls
09-10-2007, 03:26 PM
I'm thinking of giving Dual boxing a go. But my economy is really strained now so I cant afford a new system. Question is if my current one can handle it:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+
2GB ram
Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS

I'd like to be able to run one client on a seperate monitor. But from what I've heard it hits the framerate pretty hard if you dont have a decent graphic card. Which I as you can see do not. I could consider upgrading it though.

keyclone
09-10-2007, 03:42 PM
you should be able to run at least 3 characters at once on that hardware in windowed mode. using different monitors... dunno.

i can run 3 characters on my laptop (1.5GHz amd, 1GB, 64M ATI radeon mobility) and still get 20-25 FPS. the video on my site was on my desktop... 5 characters on one machine (2GHz AMD, 2GB memory, 256M nvidea). all coordinated with a single keyclone

cerruption
09-10-2007, 05:43 PM
I'm running fine with a similiar setup, your CPU is far better then mine, my graphics card is a wee bit faster.

Athlon64 3500+ (no dual core)
2gb ram
nvidia 7600gt oc


Just started today. Loving it =D

Ohls
09-10-2007, 06:20 PM
I'm running fine with a similiar setup, your CPU is far better then mine, my graphics card is a wee bit faster.

Athlon64 3500+ (no dual core)
2gb ram
nvidia 7600gt oc


Just started today. Loving it =D

Are you running that on 1 or 2 monitors?

Cause 2 monitors running psuedo-fullscreen would be totally awesome for me =).

cerruption
09-10-2007, 07:20 PM
I'm running fine with a similiar setup, your CPU is far better then mine, my graphics card is a wee bit faster.

Athlon64 3500+ (no dual core)
2gb ram
nvidia 7600gt oc


Just started today. Loving it =D

Are you running that on 1 or 2 monitors?

Cause 2 monitors running psuedo-fullscreen would be totally awesome for me =).

1 monitor, alt tabbing, im a big noob at all this :P

Djarid
09-12-2007, 08:34 AM
I am running

AMD x2 4600+ (2.4Ghz cores)
2Gb ram
Radeon 1950XT

and dual is fine, in fact I am thinking of going to 3

I used to have 1Gb of ram and that was ok for 2x

Djarid
09-12-2007, 08:37 AM
I'm running fine with a similiar setup, your CPU is far better then mine, my graphics card is a wee bit faster.

Athlon64 3500+ (no dual core)
2gb ram
nvidia 7600gt oc


Just started today. Loving it =D

Are you running that on 1 or 2 monitors?

Cause 2 monitors running psuedo-fullscreen would be totally awesome for me =).

mine is running on 2 monitors, when they were separate desktops the performance on monitor 2 was not great... moved to spanned desktop and it is very good.

Wowmaximiser is used to run each instance fullscreen (ingame setting) in each window