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    Default Multiple monitors and muliple video cards.

    I posted on here a few weeks ago asking if anyone knew if I would have any issues running multiple copies of wow with two different video adapaters: Multiple vid cards in on one motherboard?

    Well, I bought a motherboard with two pci-e slots and a second 8800GT video card, and using maximizer to choose which instance ID, my performance has dropped a ton. I am running 4 wows on 1 video card, and 1 wow on the second. The frames per second and responsiveness of the game windows are really, really bad. I used to get 60fps on my primary window, and 15fps on each of the other 4 windows (using maxfps commands) with 1 video card and dual monitors.

    Now with two video cards I am getting like 12fps on each of the 5 windows. I was hoping to increase the maxfpsbk frame rate of the other 4 windows so they don't look so choppy, and turn up the graphics settings on the primary window so it looks prettier.

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    Default I had same problem

    i could run 5 accounts 1 vc cpu usage 35 to 45% added another card and monitor cpu usage went to 98% with 5 accounts.So i built another comp lol now i run my main on 2 8800 768 ram cards sli and other 4 on 1 8800 515 ram card 2 monitors and i have smoken fps 0 lagg ,i get upto 100+ fps on my main and around 35 to 45 fps on the 4 others

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    Edit: I installed nVidia system tools so I can monitor GPU temps. Only 1 GPU is being utlized, even though im running the game on different monitors.

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    Are you using 4 monitors? What operating system are yeh running?

    figure yer running XP dual view or spanned?

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