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hey all,
So, I'm trying to help out my GF with her system. for some reason when se loads up more than 1 wow client her fps goes to shit.
her system:
intel dual core 2.67HG
2 gig ram
300 gig hard drive
Gforce 8600GT
20" ws-monitor and a 19" samsung monitor
can anyone else see why this setup would freak out when trying to run 2 clients of wow?
100% gfx quality? other than that... I run a lesser system than that and run 5 clients. Try reducing all your gfx sliders.
xp, vista?
Might be something with the spanning setting.
2 monitors is most likely related to the culprit, especially if on XP; is she using dual-span or horizontal span? I forget which is the right setting but one or the other kills fps, the other's more stable/playable. System specs look fine otherwise(other than having an 8600 instead of 8800, for shame :p)
driver version? did you dnload the latest?
ok ..
Vista ... latest gforce drivers .. dual-view side by side for monitors ... and I have no idea what you ment about the gfx sliders
Try Horizontal Span rather than Dual-View, see if that helps; if not, try downgrading the GeForce drivers; Newest != Best, and I had issues with an nvidia card long ago back on win98, upgrading made everything crash, reverted to old drivers and bam everything worked fine again...and I haven't updated my drivers now in forever and everything runs smoothly lol
I don't know if I'm just missing it or what, but it will not let me go to horizontal span ... it's either dual view or clone and I don't want clone. I'll try going back to an older driver and see what happens, but so far nothing is working.
there is always that crazy idea... to actually call the manufacturers tech support line (yea... likelihood of them helping... 40%.. which is worth a shot)
IWVB
I believe the new driver model in Vista is not susceptible to the same performance issue with multi-monitor setups that XP was. As you note there's only 2 settings now in Vista - clone or dual view.
I recommend running Task Manager and/or Resource Monitor, they will show you if you have a bottleneck on your CPU, memory, or HDD.
got it .. I went into the advanced settings for the video card and set everything to "performance" and it's good now. thanks all.