low framerate with two monitors

[envane]

hello multi boxers,
i have some troubles while running 2 wow applications in windowed mode on 2 monitors. when i drag the second wow on my secondary monitor the framerate goes down. also when i run one copy and some win popup appairs in the main screen.

any advice to prevent this?
i run a core2duo with an 1950xtx card, 19" & 21" sony trinitron.
regards, envane

[chase]

you could always lower the graphics settings to see if that helps, i can run 2 copies of wow on seperate screens from the same graphichs card with a very good frame rate using a geforce 8800gts 640mb

what is the memory on that graphics card? perhaps that is where it is failing? and also how much ram do you have?

i also have the issue with fram rate droping if i drag a window into the secondary display but that is only because you are suddenly forcing the gfx card to render 2 applications at once seeing as when it was minimised it had nothing to render because it wasnt being displayed it was just loaded into the ram so you will always get this framerate drop the only way to reduce the drop is to get a higher spec card i think or run two in SLI if you have the money for it =s

[envane]

i have 2gb rams on system and 512mb on the graphic card. i can runs possibly 20 wow applications on one screen in small windows. i would really like to level one account and wait in pvp queue with the other on two screens :/. so is it even possible to render to applications with one graphic card on two screens?

[Steph]

The problem is that your graphics card does not support any fancy 3D functions on any display but the primary one. That explains why you can have many WoW clients run fine on one screen, but suffer when you use both displays.

[chase]

hmm thats interesting cus my old 128mb geforce 6600gt could run 1 copy of wow and a film in the other screen the frames were crap but it did work and was playable like that, i never tried it with 2 versions of wow though cus i didnt have 2 accounts at the time

[envane]

The problem is that your graphics card does not support any fancy 3D functions on any display but the primary one. That explains why you can have many WoW clients run fine on one screen, but suffer when you use both displays.

any chance to avoid this problem with some fancy drivers or settings with that hardware?

[Xzin]

30" screen.

[hapiguy314]

any chance to avoid this problem with some fancy drivers or settings with that hardware?

We discussed this issue somewhere in another thread and Xzin even did an extensive test on it.

Bottom line is if u split 2 wow clients in two monitors using one vid card - u'll get really crappy FPS.

The only way to avoid this is to run both clients in one monitor - AKA: run em in a 30" monitor

As far as im concerned 19 FPS is decent enough for me...so I still split them in 2 different 22" monitors.

[Scribbler]

any chance to avoid this problem with some fancy drivers or settings with that hardware?

We discussed this issue somewhere in another thread and Xzin even did an extensive test on it.

Bottom line is if u split 2 wow clients in two monitors using one vid card - u'll get really crappy FPS.

The only way to avoid this is to run both clients in one monitor - AKA: run em in a 30" monitor

As far as im concerned 19 FPS is decent enough for me...so I still split them in 2 different 22" monitors.

Or you could get a second graphics card.

[envane]

thanks for the advice