Monitor question

[balelor]

I have a 19" monitor currently and am going to try 4 or 5 boxing, but can I do it with one monitor without lagging. I understand I will lag in cities, just trying to stay away from buying another monitor if I do not need to. I found this http://www.solidice.com/keyclone/layouts/index.html but what would be the best settings to use. ?( If you need to know here is the computer specs.

Amd Phenom 9600 2.3GHz Quad-Core
6 gigs of DDR2 800 ram
Nvidia 8600 GT video card

Thanks for the help...................

[Frojax]

Well, your specs look ok to me for 5 boxing, the layouts on the Keyclone page are great, i use them and have no problems at all. I started out 5 boxing on my 24" LCD with 4 PiP, but it was a bit cramped for me, so I hooked my 19" CRT up too and things are great now. I would think it might be a little cramped, but considering that for the most part, it's just to check they are with you, or a quick right click on quest givers, you might be ok.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Monitor has nothing to do with lag (unless you set your fps max to your frame rate I guess ...)

I play 5 on a system worse then yours (kinda worse). I doubt you have problems, cept in Org and such of course.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Yes one larger way better then dual, assuming just one computer, if you have more then one computer then one monitor per computer is ok.

[Frojax]

Not wanting to get away from the OP, but why is one monitor better than two on a since PC setup? I'm finding it a lot easier with two, but new to this and always open to wisdom/advice

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well doh umm I whould think that spanning causes problems with mouse placement, and puts a lot of strain on your video card. How you have it set up, main on one and 4 squares on the other? Does the mouse move seamlessly between the two monitors? I would see the main problem as that you must be playing in over 1900 X 1200 total on two monitors and the video card is really going to be working hard. Also whats the downside to using one? A single larger monitor seems better then two smaller anyways.

Well I don't know I guess I just use one monitor per computer and play always in full screen, I never liked the tile thing anyways. I just flip between my guys instead. If you don't have any problems then I guess I was wrong and 2 is fine, well basically I don't know.

Alwasy happy to share my wisdom lol ...