Two monitors, Four WoWs

[Savage]

ISSUE RESOLVED - With some dicking around and finally realizing that random freezes were being caused by a faulty connection to my DVD Drive, I think I've got it working perfectly now with no slowdowns / restarts. Im not sure what I did, but I have both monitors connected in SLI. Same as how I described it below.
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Like the title says, my current setup is 4 WoWs and 2 Monitors. One 28' monitor @ 1920 x 1200 and one 19" monitor @ 1440 x 900. Basically, when I have all of the instances on one screen, everything runs perfectly. If I throw any of them on the second, smaller screen it brings my PC to a halt. I know for a fact that my PC can handle multiboxing fine, it just has to be some driver issue that is causing it.

I've searched the forums for about a half hour and nothing has come up that I can see, so I'm looking for some help.

Edit: PC Specs -
eVGA 680i LT Mobo
e6600 @ 3.4GHz
4GB RAM
9800GX2

I have, on my main screen, one windowed WoW (through Maximizer) @ 1920 x 1200 and on the second screen, three equally sized windows if this helps.

[cryinsham]

Running the 9800gx2 make sure your using the latest drivers that support sli for multimonitors

[Savage]

I have the latest drivers and it does support SLI with multiple monitors. This problem happens with SLI turned on and SLI turned off.

[mikekim]

Vista or XP?

if its XP, it sounds like you have the monitors not configured in horizontal span (as they are different sizes). this will trash the framerates on you machine. both screens have to be the same size on XP for this to work properly.

If you have Vista then you can use Dual View, which will allow you to use 2 different sizes of screen. this is the reason many people have moved over to Vista form XP for Multiboxing (also using vista will allow you to use 8GB+ of ram which helps)

[keyclone]

i have 2x 260s on an nvidia 750i and i get the same result.

when i discussed this with an nvidia tech, he told me that the 750i was 'throttled' to get people into the 780i and 790i. (needless to say, i was fairly grumpy about that)

[Savage]

Vista or XP?

if its XP, it sounds like you have the monitors not configured in horizontal span (as they are different sizes). this will trash the framerates on you machine. both screens have to be the same size on XP for this to work properly.

If you have Vista then you can use Dual View, which will allow you to use 2 different sizes of screen. this is the reason many people have moved over to Vista form XP for Multiboxing (also using vista will allow you to use 8GB+ of ram which helps)

It's Vista. How do you set up dual view? In my Nvidia settings manager I dont see any other options. The older drivers used to let you configure that but they dumbed them down so much with these new ones.

[pythos]

Vista or XP?

if its XP, it sounds like you have the monitors not configured in horizontal span (as they are different sizes). this will trash the framerates on you machine. both screens have to be the same size on XP for this to work properly.

If you have Vista then you can use Dual View, which will allow you to use 2 different sizes of screen. this is the reason many people have moved over to Vista form XP for Multiboxing (also using vista will allow you to use 8GB+ of ram which helps)

It's Vista. How do you set up dual view? In my Nvidia settings manager I dont see any other options. The older drivers used to let you configure that but they dumbed them down so much with these new ones.

Go to the same place you change resolution....Display Settings. If you have 2 monitors plugged in and they are working properly you should have a little pictures of screen 1 and screen 2. Determine which is which by clicking the Identify Monitors button. Then you literally click on that monitors picture and you can set the resolution individually for each one.

[Savage]

Vista or XP?

if its XP, it sounds like you have the monitors not configured in horizontal span (as they are different sizes). this will trash the framerates on you machine. both screens have to be the same size on XP for this to work properly.

If you have Vista then you can use Dual View, which will allow you to use 2 different sizes of screen. this is the reason many people have moved over to Vista form XP for Multiboxing (also using vista will allow you to use 8GB+ of ram which helps)

It's Vista. How do you set up dual view? In my Nvidia settings manager I dont see any other options. The older drivers used to let you configure that but they dumbed them down so much with these new ones.

Go to the same place you change resolution....Display Settings. If you have 2 monitors plugged in and they are working properly you should have a little pictures of screen 1 and screen 2. Determine which is which by clicking the Identify Monitors button. Then you literally click on that monitors picture and you can set the resolution individually for each one.

ISSUE RESOLVED - See OP

[s]Yeah, this is basically how its set up at the moment - I can change the resolution on both monitors separately. I guess it defaults to this way, because I dont see any other way to change the way the monitors are handled. The only thing that can differ is if I plug both monitors into one GPU and leave the second blank. I have one physical card, but the card contains two GPUs. It sort of looks like this, two rows.

(HDMI Port) (DVI Port) GPU 1
(DVI Port) GPU 2

I can keep my card in SLI and have dual monitors, or take it out of SLI and plug the monitors into seperate GPUs.[/s]