5fps

[Eldi]

ok guy i run 5 chars 3 screens one pc my specs are

amd 6000+ 3.1ghz
8gig ocz ram
780a msi motherboard
2x 9800gt 512 video cards non sli
1x 780a mother board card 512mb


y am i getting 5 fps with more than 3 wows opened up? i run vista ultimate.
any ideas help plz.

[Kicksome]

Check to see what your CPU load is in task manager

-> run taskmgr

[Eldi]

ok its using 50% at log in screen and 90-100% when logged in..... what should i do

[Sam DeathWalker]

ummm ... you have to be saturating your video busses, you are using the onboard video and two video cards on the pcie buss. There is no way you can move all that data back and forth. YOu are asking your processor to do 3X the work of what mine does for 6 wows ...

This set up is not resonable. YOu need a better plan, in my opinion, but others might have better ideas.

9800 is a strong video card but your computer is just not able to get the information to the 3 places in time.

Make another similar computer, take the 9800 out of your current and move to it. Have 2 computers running 4 wows, and dont use the onboard video.

[blast3r]

I try to give advice on this but just get ignored. but what sam said.

[Catamer]

I agree with the other two about you are just asking for too much bandwidth from main memory.
I would never make another monster machine because of this.
each video card has shared main memory and the worst card for this would be anything "onboard" video.
but if you really want to try this setup try setting all of your game video options to minimum and maybe reduce screen resolutions.
I was having problems with 3 copies of wow taking down my machine with the video set at maximum, each copy of wow was using 1.4G of ram (all max settings) , they use closer to 600-700M each now.

ps: I use the 8800 to run two copes of wow on one monitor, no problems at all.

[Eldi]

well i use the 2 9800s now main screen is on 1st card and other 2 screens are on the 2nd card works ok all pre bc is 15fps capped same with bc and for wrath its 10 in towns 15 in open areas

[Sam DeathWalker]

I have 6 wows on a amd 6400 with 9600 video, full screen only (I flip), 30fps forground and 20fps background, in old world (and sath kinda).

[Zappy]

I'm assuming Vista 64, and not the 32 bit?

[Eldi]

ya 64