Using 2 monitors with one comp

[Baen]

Trying to run 2 copies of WoW on my new dual monitors.....running an ATI x1950 pro. The 2nd monitor is being run by the (secondary) of my one video card whatever that means. When I drag my windowed WOW over to this 2nd monitor it totally lags and barely runs, like this 2nd monitor is not getting any 3d rendering. Am I going to be able to do what I want to do or will I have to run a 2nd video card? Sounds like some ppl are running WOW on 2 monitors with only one video card. Thanks for any help you can give.

[Zerocool2024]

Well, from what I remember, you should for (Dual Monitor) on one computer and one video card, set the monitor settings to Horizontal View so that the screen stretches through both screens. That should solve the problem.

[Defsync]

runnin on a single computer, intel dual core 2.8ghz with 3g ram



I run 2 wow's, both in windowed mode on 1240x1024 res screens, horizontal (desktop stretched across both). On the 2nd monitor I get about 45fps, on the primary monitor im getting about 22fps. although this is playable i would love to up the fps on at least the primary monitor. for the smoothest play i minimize the 2nd wow and play the 1st wow full-screen (back to 60fps then) but i prefer to have both windows open at the same time, so i can swtich from character to character with a single click. lowering screen resolution did not change the fps rate.

any suggestions?

[-silencer-]

runnin on a single computer, intel dual core 2.8ghz with 3g ram



I run 2 wow's, both in windowed mode on 1240x1024 res screens, horizontal (desktop stretched across both). On the 2nd monitor I get about 45fps, on the primary monitor im getting about 22fps. although this is playable i would love to up the fps on at least the primary monitor. for the smoothest play i minimize the 2nd wow and play the 1st wow full-screen (back to 60fps then) but i prefer to have both windows open at the same time, so i can swtich from character to character with a single click. lowering screen resolution did not change the fps rate.

any suggestions?

Something definitely doesn't seem right. Start by trying "/console maxfps 10" on your 2nd monitor to limit frames in that window. That should help speed up your main window. You can tweak that command later to 20 or 30fps if you like. Have you tried updating the nvidia drivers? I'm running recent drivers on an 8800gtx on 1920x1200 & 1680x1050 resolutions with 5 windows, and my main window rarely ever has a problem with frame rates. My other 4 windows are limited to 10fps for now. Perhaps you're being cpu limited? You say you've got an Intel dual core, but I'm going to guess you're running one of the older Prescott or Northwood cpus and not a Core 2 Duo? I don't think an 8800GTS-320MB would have this much of a problem for two screens at that resolution in horizontal span mode with a Core2 Duo and that much memory. Did you try seriously lowering visual settings of the 2nd window? I drop everything to no AA, 16-bit settings for the 4 alt windows, and all visual settings to 'low' on those 4 alts.