is this possible?

[Multibocks]

I've never tried two cards that weren't connect (ie SLI) and was wondering if you have two different monitors for one computer would it work to have each card dedicated to one monitor? To be honest I'm not sure its totally necessary. I have one 580 and two 24" monitors. Now I box, so one monitor will have main screen with for slave on other.

The only other thing that I do is SWTOR and honestly the 580 is fine for that. Do I hours my questions are:

A. Will it work?
B. Its there much to gain our am I wasting money?

[Khatovar]

I use 1 card per monitor. Card1/monitor1 is dedicated to my master, Card2/monitor2 is for my slaves, browser and chat.

I couldn't speak to gain. My husband bought me 2 cards so I could run SLI for games I don't multibox.

However, I have noticed a few things. I can't run both master and slaves in DX11 for WoW. Trying to put the slaves into DX11 keeps sticking my slaves in 800*600 and running it from the primary card/screen. And because it's trying to run on the wrong card, when my screens get bumped over to the proper screen, I see a huge performance hit.

But it works just dandy with the master in DX11 and slaves on DX9 or everyone on DX9.

[Multibocks]

Good to know! I guess I will just see what performance is like for the next few Weeks before trying another card.

[MiRai]

Ran this test back in August for splitting the load:

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showpost....6&postcount=48

Like Khat said... I couldn't assign different monitors per game windows through WoW's settings using DX11 w/o the game
flipping out... it only worked in DX9 which seemed like a waste unless you were running a massive amount of characters. I
never got around to trying to force it through InnerSpace's configuration using DX11, though. As for SW:TOR, while in theory
it should work through InnerSpace's configuration (if there isn't an in-game option) I really have no idea how it will perform.

[dancook]

On one pc, I'm running a GTX 480 (main) and an ATI 4870 HD Radeon card (slaves). I did it to lighten the load on the GTX480 which runs hot.

Occasionally I get a blank screen occur across all the windows.. I run them all in dx9 too - I wonder whether it's worth trying on just the GTX480 again.

[Multibocks]

Ran this test back in August for splitting the load:

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showpost....6&postcount=48

Like Khat said... I couldn't assign different monitors per game windows through WoW's settings using DX11 w/o the game
flipping out... it only worked in DX9 which seemed like a waste unless you were running a massive amount of characters. I
never got around to trying to force it through InnerSpace's configuration using DX11, though. As for SW:TOR, while in theory
it should work through InnerSpace's configuration (if there isn't an in-game option) I really have no idea how it will perform.

Ok sounds not worth it if you can't use dx11.

[Sajuuk]

Ran this test back in August for splitting the load:

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showpost....6&postcount=48

Like Khat said... I couldn't assign different monitors per game windows through WoW's settings using DX11 w/o the game
flipping out... it only worked in DX9 which seemed like a waste unless you were running a massive amount of characters. I
never got around to trying to force it through InnerSpace's configuration using DX11, though. As for SW:TOR, while in theory
it should work through InnerSpace's configuration (if there isn't an in-game option) I really have no idea how it will perform.

Squeee, tests!

On one pc, I'm running a GTX 480 (main) and an ATI 4870 HD Radeon card (slaves). I did it to lighten the load on the GTX480 which runs hot.

Occasionally I get a blank screen occur across all the windows.. I run them all in dx9 too - I wonder whether it's worth trying on just the GTX480 again.

The 480 series of GPUs ran/runs hot anyways, so...meh?

Ok sounds not worth it if you can't use dx11.

It hasn't been tested with dx11 (Due to issues in testing). And who's to say it's not worth it? If you get a performance boost, it's worth it, smoother gameplay with the same framerates is worth it.

on a side note. I'm coming back guys. New build will be complete within a week or so.

And guess what.

RAMDISKS vs SSD. Fight!

Squee.

[Cyrberus]

I have a Gtx480 and Gtx260. Both with their own screen. And all instances in directx11. Been doing this for a year already and dont remember having any problems with swapping or resolutions of slaves.

[MiRai]

I have a Gtx480 and Gtx260. Both with their own screen. And all instances in directx11. Been doing this for a year already and dont remember having any problems with swapping or resolutions of slaves.

You're leaving out quite a bit of details about your set up. Are you using Inner Space with config.wtf virtualization? Are the
correct monitors set within World of Warcraft's game options to each game instance or through Inner Space's game
configuration? Are you using cross-monitor swapping?

Swapping game clients between monitors that aren't driven by the same video card is going to give worse framerates
than if they were using their native monitor/gpu and I'm almost positive that this is a limitation of Microsoft Windows. For
example, you've got GameWindow01 powered by GPU01 on Monitor01 and GameWindow02 powered by GPU02 on
Monitor02. Now, if GameWindow02 swaps over to Monitor01 it's no longer being rendered by GPU02 because GPU02 can't
do anything to Monitor01 since it's not hooked up to it; therefore, GameWindow02 is now being rendered by software
instead of hardware which doesn't give the same framerates.

Also, the GTX 260 doesn't technically support DX11, it just emulates it.

[jstanthr]

I have a Gtx480 and Gtx260. Both with their own screen. And all instances in directx11. Been doing this for a year already and dont remember having any problems with swapping or resolutions of slaves.

i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if all your clients are in dx11, then they are ALL running on the 480 and being crossed over to the 260 because no matter what drivers your running the 260 will never support anything above dx9