New SUPER Box (one machine -- 5 toons)

[sojolly]

After being away from the game and boxing for a few months, i bit the bullet and upgraded my main machine to a SUPER box. In the past i used 5 machines for my team. Wearing out the hardwood under my chair swiveling back and forth to loot. This change was triggered by the PiP support that was added to keyclone since i was away. Working the interface from one machine is amazing compared to the old approach.

I am getting pretty decent FPS in Hellfire on the 5 accounts (20+ on main, 15 on alts). No issues with lag follow disconnects.
3DMARK06 Tests --> with dual screens enabled (13049 marks)

Here is the RIG:

ASUS P5N-D Motherboard
Intel Q9300 Quad Core
4GB DDR2 800 RAM
ANTEC 1000Watt Power Supply
250GB SATA Hard Drive
Enlight Tower Case
Dual Nvidia 260GTX 896MB
Main Screen 20" Planar LCD (running 1600x1200)
Second Screen 20" Planar LCD (running 1600x1200)
Keyboard Logitech G15 (the old one)
Mouse Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 4000





I will upload some new pictures when i get my new desk

edit: ninja edit by kc (i like the pretty pictures )

[Depherios]

I'm running 5 accounts with incredibly heavy addon usage on the main account. (120 megs, god knows how much of a CPU drain... the single account lagged my old comp with those addons) with 30-50 FPS on the main screen and a maxfpsbk of 20 on the 4 secondaries... With specs significantly worse than yours... no idea why you're capping out at 20/15

AMD Athlon X2 2.6
GeForce 7900 GS (just one)

Same RAM, although my HDDs are RAIDed and I'm in lower resolution. (1280x1024 and 900x1440)

[BobGnarly]

Hey man,

I don't want to steal your thunder or anything, but you should do MUCH better than 20fps on that rig. My machine is inferior in every way, and I tend to average 40+ on my main at 2560x1600 (with 4 clones, 8x6 on a 16x12 monitor).

I assume you've cranked everything down to minimum on the slaves? One thing that helped me out quite a bit was disabling vsync. Yeah, the tearing kinda sucks (and it's really noticeable at 25x16), but it massively increased my fps. Might want to give that a try if you haven't already.

[sojolly]

I agree that it should be faster. Gonna cross this over to the hardware forum for discussion.

[Ðeceased]

minimum cap on ur main should be 25 fps. Ur system should handle it perfectly fine, but capping it at 20 is going to cause you some problems. whilst display frequency is the important one to avoid flickering (potentially nauseating and in extreme cases can cause epileptic fits in those prone to it), having a slower frame rate then 24 over a long period of time can cause nausea amongst some people. Having the Brain readjust to spacial positions (even if they are fake - ie flat pc screen) for long periods of time is somewhat unhealthy :S

I would suggest 30fps personally. If you plan on recording any of your in game footage you should stick to 30 (29.9) fps, as lower then that, depending on the video capture or editing software can cause the end fps to drop below 24 fps (but that usually isn't a problem when making .avi vids, as it applies mostly to NTSC

[Syro]

Also, if you're using keyclone, set the core affinity to take advantage of the other cores.

[aNiMaL]

capping it at 20 is going to cause you some problems. whilst display frequency is the important one to avoid flickering (potentially nauseating and in extreme cases can cause epileptic fits in those prone to it)

The first box I created made me seasick thanks to this :cursing:
By the time I noticed what caused it I was already emptying my stomache

[Nitro]

One sad fact is that he would actually get better fps running only a single graphics card. I went through the same deal.