I don't know if they did or not... haven't installed Vista to try it... but I know it exists in XP.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'OLIPCS',index.php?page=Thread&postID=108969#post1 08969
I don't know if they did or not... haven't installed Vista to try it... but I know it exists in XP.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'OLIPCS',index.php?page=Thread&postID=108969#post1 08969
They did. Multi-monitor support and DirectX was rewritten for Vista so you can use any combination of windows\monitors that you'd like and performance will be comparable.
Old system had AMD? Mentioned this in another thread, maybe someone with lots of hardware can test. AMD has the integrated memory controller and Hypertransport bus. This would help in large memory memory movements me thinks.
I had a very similar performance drop when I last upgraded my system. It turned out to be the quad core! I replaced the quad core with my old dual core and my frame rates almost doubled.
I'm running Vista 64, 8Gb RAM, SLI nVidia 8800 GT, dual core CPU (forget the model).
When I had a quad core in this system I was getting around 15-25 FPS. After putting in a dual core I'm now sitting around 60+
people your missing the obvious,
9800gx2=sli sli+wow=issues especially on multimonitor.
disable v-sync, try making setting up all 5 clients on one monitor and doing pip swapping after disabling second monitor etc etc.
i have 2x 260s.. crankin cards... and was getting about 20/30 fps with 1 full screen on one monitor and 2x2 on the 2nd .. each display in 1280x1024 mode. each monitor on a different card.
then i moved them all to one monitor... 1 main + 4 stack on the right using 1920x1200 resolution...
i'm now getting 50fps on each... go figure
:pinch:
(my next move would be to try 2 monitors from the same card... but i was happy getting it to this point, and have been caught up playing a bit...)
im gona go with the duel board on the gx2, nvidia always seems to have problems with them.
you sure your motherboard bios settings are right? ie, fsb for the ram ect.. also it could be your harddrive/drives they are always going to be the slowest componet of your system. i will only run intel boards because im very anal about my HD speeds. intel matrix raid owns nvidias board raid :P
the drives only come into the picture when new content needs to be loaded. but if you have been standing in the same area, in the sticks, for 10+ minutes without moving (noodling with macros and what not), nothing new is being loaded. therefore, the drives are out of the equation
that leaves the boards and data coming across the main board
make sure you have vista sp1, because it fixes the problem of sli or multiple gpu cards seeing a 60% preformace decrease in windowed mode.
The 9800GX2 is a dual-Gpu card not 2x 9800, When i made the switch from ATI to Nvidia i had this same problem - came down to a nvidia setting "Multi-display/mixed-GPU accerlation" i changed it from the default dual display mode to the single display mode and it fixed all my problems, you can find the setting under Manage 3D settings.Quote:
9800gx2=sli sli+wow=issues especially on multimonitor.