Multiboxing Hardware Science!

[MiRai]

I don't belive that the gpu actually renders anything that is not visible on the display.

In the first screen yes the GPU is rendering all 15 clients at the full resolution, but at 10fps.

In the 2nd screen the GPU is only rendering 1 client but becuase your fps and effects are higher (are they?) more GPU load is being used. And in the 2nd screen more of the world is showing. Although the 2nd screen is also shown in the first I am fairly sure its at 10fps in the first screen and 60fps in the 2nd.

My point is that in the 2nd screen with only one client showing the other 14 clients put ZERO load on the GPU.

Before I take a screen shot, I click on region 1 to make sure it's in focus and getting full attention. I do this
every time (at least I try to remember to do this every time) because it gives a more accurate load reading as
if someone was actually on the first client. I mentioned this before the screen shots above:

The main screen is in focus so that it's at 60FPS and all windows are 1920x1080.

GPU-Z has a handy feature called "Always on top" so that it can stay on top of windows even when it's out of
focus (like the Windows Task Manager).

But for you Sam... I'm going to go the extra mile and do another test. I should have the results later today.

300Mb for first client with most effects and 65M for addional lower alts is excellent infos.

Maybe 2G cards are not needed, it seems that there is a lot less video information needed by the card then I had thought although the fact that there are lots of 4K read and writes would tend to support that very little video information is being used. They have made wow to be played on some really poor computers.

Remember, this is all in DX9. If someone wants all the eye candy of DX11 with 5 or 10 clients they'll need over
1.5GB and probably over 2GB if they really had some settings turned up.