[WoW] 3440 x 1440 and you!

[MadMilitia]

Wondering if anyone has upgraded to one of these displays yet and what kind of crunch it had on your specs.

Mine:

Ram: 16gb
GPU: 780
CPU: i7 2600K

I only run 2-3 instances at most. Probably going to be dual boxing all of Legion.

Do you think 3440 x 1440 would give me issues on ultra?

[MiRai]

Do you think 3440 x 1440 would give me issues on ultra?

First, we don't know what resolution you currently use, second, you don't know what resolution you're going to be using on the monitor, and third, we don't really know how much of an increase, graphically, Legion is going to be.

However, here are some numbers assuming you play at 1920x1080...

1920 x 1080 = 2,073,600 pixels x 2 game clients = 4,147,200 total pixels
3440 x 1440 = 4,953,600 pixels x 2 game clients = 9,907,200 total pixels

9,907,200 / 4,147,200 = 2.39, but we started with 1.00, so 2.39 - 1.00 = 1.39, or about a 139% increase in pixels that will need to be driven by your GPU—which is, again, assuming nothing else changes in your setup at all (which is impossible seeing as Legion is changing things).

So, now you need to monitor what your hardware is doing to see if it's capable of handling such a large increase. There's a page over on the ISBoxer Wiki which helps people figure out how to do this.

[MadMilitia]

I use a 1920 x 1080 display stacked, with gfx for the 1-2 second accounts I play.

There is another monitor also 1920 x 1080 linked to the same GPU. The GPU is a 780 GTX.

My main concern was going from 1920 x 1080 to 3440 x 1440. I am guessing that this bump will have more of a performance hit than having a second display running this browser window on the same GPU.

[MadMilitia]

Ah well, I took the jump to the display. So we'll see on Tuesday I guess!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

[zenga]

Back to hardware boxing!

[MadMilitia]

I couldn't resist. After seeing the amount of UI room spared by a 3440 x 1440 display I thought to myself this is exactly what I need to solve the screen clutter when 2-3 boxing on a 1920 x 1080 screen.

[MadMilitia]

Ok, so monitor arrived and installed.

2s went from 50-55 in warspear to about 39 in warspear.

I haven't done 3s yet but man this is a huge improvement on the game experience. I get closer to 50FPS outside of capital cities.

[MadMilitia]

I checked out 3s today just to see how it was.

I noticed while 3 boxing Mogushan vaults on 25 man mode the spell effects got to be rough ( 20 fps ) on spiritbinder. Warspear was much lower about 30fps on a good spot.

At this time it appears 1 instance is almost twice as demanding on this resolution for the GPU. Makes sense. I dropped the main down to 'good' settings and that brought the main back up to 55-60FPS in Warspear.

Probably due for a GPU update pretty soon. I will say 3440x1440 and 4K are both going to require a very expensive GPU to multibox.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I see similar performance drops on my Dad's new laptop. It has a 4k display and certain things that work marveously on the same GPU at 1080p just are not happy at 4k. (e.g. web apps with large amounts of DOM elements) So it's not just WoW that suffers from this.

[MadMilitia]

Yeah I didn't think 1440p would be the same crunch as 4k. It isn't as far as I can tell but its still a pretty good step up from 1080p.

4k I cannot imagine trying to box on that.

I intend to keep my instances around 2-3. So it won't impact me that badly yet. Maybe come Legion I will need to do a GPU upgrade.