Dual Screens is killing my GTX 260 - What Card will help?

[sqeaky4100]

Well like I said, Im averaging around 80-90fps on a single WoW.

But when I add my team this happens:

- My main ( of which I want the good fps ) goes down to around 40fps
- My alts I fpsbk to 15fpsbk.

The main problem I see though is this:

With 1 WoW, everything runs perfectly smooth. But when my team comes in, on the second monitor... I get this weird "stutter", like the game freezes for fradtion of a second... it happens every 1/2sec to 2sec.... it just doesnt run silky smooth like with 1.

First thing; there was a stutter bug that was fixed with a recent patch (post 3.0.8).

I bet you have a hard disk drive problem rather than a graphics card problem. I have a similar setup to you; 5 boxing on a Q6600 with GTX260, two monitors.

How have you got your wow instances laid out on disk? Do you have 1 wow folder for each account? If so, you could try symlinking all their data directories together. This helped me immensely with stutter issues.

Steps (not 100% sure about syntax):

Say you have your main wow installed here:

C:WowMain\

And your alt wow installed here:

C:\WowAlt\

Rename the Data folder in WowAlt to DataOld and symlink the Data folder from WowMain

To symlink (for Vista), open a command prompt (Windows-R, type cmd, press enter)

cd C:\WowAlt
mklink /J Data "C:\WowMain\Data"

Oh, you will have to rename your old Data folder back on patch day... just rename and symlink it again after patch is done.

See if that helps any; also there are plenty of posts about on disk performance as well - it would not hurt to search for them.

Don't think it's a HDD problem, because I've tried several different ones.

Right now - Im just running all 5 from the same HDD. Which is 2x Velociraptors in RAID 0.

I've tried running 1 from my RAID0, and the other 4 from another raptor. Same deal.



And yeah, my 4 alts are symlinked. I used a small script program that let's you right-click things and easily create symlinks... So I have my main WoW folder alone - and then another one fore slaves, Then 3 that are attached to that main slave folder. Weird thing is though - before I remember my symlinked accounts all loaded things at the exact same time. Yet now my symlinks will load things independently. ( like loading bars will finish at different times )



Also Catamer:


Turning off Verticle Sync will let WoW run at whatever it can run at. Find this in WoW video settings ingame. However - I find this "can" cause more stuttering and laggyness, even if you're getting higher FPS than before. But it's pointless if you're not even egtting 60fps to start with.


It's funny- I've gotten to like 350fps with no addons, lowest settings, and starting at the ground. Talk about smooth gaming!