Quote Originally Posted by wyofiddler View Post
Fenril has mentioned several times that Crossfire/SLI is a poor choice for multiboxing, and I really appreciate hearing that because I was wondering about that myself.
The only reason I keep touting this is because there has yet to be a group of people who actually claim, and
can prove, that they truly see any significant increase in performance while using SLI/CF. In helping people
troubleshoot multiboxing issues throughout the years, I have run into numerous people who have had SLI/CF
enabled, and disabling it has always fixed any issues they've had. This is just in my experience and could of
course be different for others yet many agree with not using SLI/CF.
Quote Originally Posted by wyofiddler View Post
From all I've read here on this thread and others, it sounds like it is not possible to force, say 3 clients onto one graphics card, and the other 2 clients onto the other graphics card, but rather all five clients try to use both cards (or not, if WoW doesn't support SLI at all) at the same time.
I have yet to actually figure this out 100%. While WoW natively supports using different monitors (prior to that
it could be accomplished through Inner Space), in my quick test with two GTX 570's I was unable to get WoW
to actually use any of the second GPU's VRAM. I will be honest that I did not test this as thorough as I possibly
could have before I just opted to get a much stronger GPU instead.
Quote Originally Posted by wyofiddler View Post
Do you have one mouse that scrolls seemlessly across multiple screens like the single computer with dual monitors I run now, with IS boxer pip-swapping windows in and out or is it more like running two comps, with two monitors, two mice, two keyboards etc? I really like the performance side of this option, but I started boxing one toon on my desktop with another running on the laptop next to me and moved away from that as soon as I could; I don't really want to go back to what for me is a less intuitive setup.
People use software KM's (KVM w/o the V) to accomplish using a single mouse/keyboard between multiple
machines at the same time. Input Director would be my recommendation if you're able to use Windows on
both machines. If you're running different OS's on these machines then your next choice would probably be
Synergy although many have reported that Synergy can act up at times while multiboxing.