Vista is not very happy with Quad Monitors...

The stats.
Vista 64
Quad Core 6700
8gigs of ram
2X 8800GTS Video Cards
Raid 0 - 2X 500 Gig Hard Drives.

I have gone through the search feature and Ive found a few or shall I say, a lot of post about vista being teh suck with wow, or with more than 2 boxing and such, and others have said its fine, you just suck. So I am not sure where I fall in that area, but I can't seem to get a decent FPS with 4 toons and 4 mons.

I am trying to run 4 copies of WOW. I have Keyclone :thumbsup: And I have it all set up for each wow1, wow2, wow3, wow4 to their own Processor being, 0, 1, 2, 3. Each toon has their FPS set to the reg of 15 and 30. ( Ive messed with this a bit, and have not seen a difference in the toons FPS) its still kind of sluggish.

Next, I go into Maximizer and set each toon to their own Monitor, wow1 to display 1, wow2 to display 2, wow3 to display 3, wow4 to display 4, and of course have each window named after the account they are linked to. Maximizer is checked :)

After I hit apply, and then start telling Keyclone to run each window, being told to come on one at a time rather then all at once, or with in a few seconds of each other, they all go to the same Monitor. I of course can move them around the 4 monitors, but after I get the the 4th toon to go to its own Monitor, it starts to lag, (its playable, just has this delay)

Now, mowing some things around in my head about my setup, I have a P7N SLI Plat Motherboard from MSI, it has 3 16X slots, and two of them are 8X... I know, makes not sense to me, but one is 16 (Which is where one card is, and the other is 8) So I am thinking that might be do to some of the problem. I did come across someone saying something about not having enough power, I have a 600W PS and I thought that would be enough for wow with 4 toons.

So I guess all in all, this is a FPS problem, and also, maximizer not sending each window to each monitor.

G'evening 0cool,

15/30 might be a bit high. i'd sacrifice background fps before active fps.... so try 10/30 and see of that helps.

you talk about setting the cpu affinity.. so i assume you are using commands. did you specify the region for each command?
was it different for each command?
in the maximizer, did you enable maximizer?

talk to you soon,

Rob

Hey, thanks for the quick reply.

I changed it to 10/30 (being the FPS)

With the CPU affinity, I am guessing you mean the box in the upper right corner of Keyclone when I am setting up the command editor?

I have the name of the account in the Command, and it set to one of the 4 CPUS.

I have a Region set to the name of each window in the Maximizer (That fixed the toons all going to the same Monitor, I always seem to miss that one :whistling: ) and yeah, Maximizer was checked. lol :rolleyes:

I made the changes you mentioned this morning and it still has this sluggish movement while playing. Not sure if its just the hardware or running quad Monitors in Dual view will work the way I want it to.

Lol, oh yeah, all my drivers have been updated.

ok... so now you have all 4 on their proper monitors (that's just nice .. wish i could see a pic :D)

next, we check performance.

10/30 should be FAR more then low enough... to be honest, on that rig, it should be better. this is now a rendering issue.

so.... what resolution do you run each monitor in? if you set each to 1600x1200 or higher... you're pushing it.
consider dropping it to 1280x1024. wow scales it's UI, so it should look fine. (this takes care of the number of pixels being pushed)

also, in keyclone/setup/maximizer... left click each region and make sure to set the game resolution (just below PiP and to the right of 'enable maximizer') to '1-to-1' (this insures you get the best aspect ratio wow is going to give you)

next we deal with what is being rendered... please make these macros and set the details on each to medium
link: http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde...Graphic_Detail

please hit ctrl+R to show the fps for each screen, that will help figure out how its doing.

oh, and for testing... set your maxfpsbk / maxfps to 20 / 60 ... i'd recommend putting it back while actually playing, but having it high will help figure out whether or not you're getting more performance

let me know how that goes,

Rob

Yeah, when I finally got all the windows up and running. It was a nice site, lol... 8o

Cool, thanks for the reply. Right now I'm at work, and I will be back around 330 4ish Central time. So when I get home, I will take some pictures and do what you had listed and get back with you on what it does.

Thanks!

I'm running vista 64, 4g memory, 2 video cards and 3 monitors, can run 5 wow's with no issues - typically capped framerates (I think I'm set to 10/20 on the slaves though) all the time. Just takes a little tweaking.

Zzy, which video cards are you using?
how many fps you getting on your main?

Ok. so I messed with it a bit, and I changed some settings and I think I know what the problem is.

Well, with 4 toons it seems to be pushing it I guess, not sure why with my rig, but it seems to be pushing it.
I lowered the Res on all 4 mons to 1280 X 1025
It helped I think, but I still get low FPS.

On the Video card sitting on the 16X slot, I get 18 FPS with 10/30 setting, but with the one on the 8X I get 9, so of course, that would be half of what the 16X gets.

But the second I drop one of the toons on the 8X card, the rest jump in frames, basically the 9 frames from that screen go to the other toons, so 18 goes to 27 and the 9 goes to 18.
Now, if I drop one of the toons on the 16X, it does nothing... lol.

Your rig is WAY overpowered compared to my 32 bit 3.5gb ram, dual amd setup with a 512mb nvidia card.

I run all 5 wows and get 20+ dps on clones and 30+ on main.

You def should be getting even with 4 huge monitors maxed out in FPS.