choosing video card to render wow on

[BIGBADPRIME]

I wonder if there is away to choose the video card you want to render wow, ya know for all of us who got those sli balls to the walls system and wonder where is out uber wow fps

[neux]

I might be misunderstanding you, but as far as I know, GPU is nothing like CPU at all, in other words I didn't heard of assigning specific GPU to render certain application, well not in way CPU core can be assigned...

usually second core working when that card set in SLI or Quad-SLI modes, I believe ASUS with 4xDVIs have second core rendoring 3rd and 4th screans if you have them connected, at least that what I learned here and there.
also in SLI you can have only one screan connected to a card, dont know when they take that limiter away >.>

BTW What OS do you have? What DirectX version? What card do you have?

[Freddie]

SLI doesn't assign a card to a window. The work load isn't split up that way.

[neux]

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are you refering about

I believe ASUS with 4xDVIs have second core rendoring 3rd and 4th screans if you have them connected,

or

usually second core working when that card set in SLI or Quad-SLI modes

well, I know that, unless maybe I wasn't clear I guess...

as far as I know in normal mode multi-gpu cards have one of GPUs in suspend mode, until it is enabled by SLI-mode where you can have only one screen enabled.

and I know only one card that can have more then 2 screens connected to it at time, and it is multi-gpu card from ASUS 4800X2 series, the fact that it have 2 gpu enables it to have up to 4 screen conected to it.

or it is just me misunderstanding you Freddie :S

[Freddie]

Freddie[/url] :S

I was responding to Bigbadprime not you.

If I understood Bigbadprime, he wants to say, "Card #1 should draw WoW1 and Card #2 should draw WoW2," etc. But SLI doesn't split up the work like that. SLI has several modes. In one mode, called alternate frame rendering, the first card draws an entire frame. Then the second card draws the next entire frame. Etc. In another mode, called split frame rendering, the first card draws the top portion of each frame. The second card draws a lower portion of the same frame. Etc.

Edit: Maybe we misunderstood each other because I wrote "window" and you thought I meant "display?" "Window" means the rectangle in which a particular instance of WoW gets drawn.

[neux]

I was responding to Bigbadprime not you.

Oh, OK, then all ok

[Catamer]

SLI and crossfire were intended to have more than one GPU render a single screen or single monitor.
back when they were created, they didn't have enough GPU power to render the full high def screen 1920x1200 with a full speed game.

SLI/crossfire has half the picture on the alternate GPU and then ship the 1/2 image to the main card to be merged with it 1/2 image.

Once you place two monitors in the same setup, it's not any different than having one GPU do one screen and the other GPU doing the second screen ( what's the point of having each GPU do 1/2 of each monitor, when they can do 100% of their own monitor )

you might as well turn off SLI/Crossfire and plug one monitor into each seperate card and hope for the best.

good luck

[BIGBADPRIME]

Well thats just the thing i would love to have a way i could just turn the sli off and take full advantage of all that gpu power as triple boxing in sli doesn't seem to want to do it right

Because wow only seem to use two cores and not all 4 so i can change the affinity of what cpu that wow uses i want to do the same with the video cards

[Lax]

I don't know of a way to do it with the game's own configuration, typically games don't provide one and just assume that most people will want it rendering via the primary display. But, if you happened to decide to use Inner Space, you could set it up to have the game launch on whichever you like. There might be free tools available that provide that specific capability though.

[zanthor]

I don't know of a way to do it with the game's own configuration, typically games don't provide one and just assume that most people will want it rendering via the primary display. But, if you happened to decide to use Inner Space, you could set it up to have the game launch on whichever you like. There might be free tools available that provide that specific capability though.

I was digging around in WoW's settings and I think I may have come across a primary display setting - I know they added the ability to set the primary audio device a while back.