small problem ..

[crzywolve]

hey all,

So, I'm trying to help out my GF with her system. for some reason when se loads up more than 1 wow client her fps goes to shit.

her system:
intel dual core 2.67HG
2 gig ram
300 gig hard drive
Gforce 8600GT
20" ws-monitor and a 19" samsung monitor

can anyone else see why this setup would freak out when trying to run 2 clients of wow?

[Gurblash]

100% gfx quality? other than that... I run a lesser system than that and run 5 clients. Try reducing all your gfx sliders.

[thinus]

xp, vista?

Might be something with the spanning setting.

[Eteocles]

2 monitors is most likely related to the culprit, especially if on XP; is she using dual-span or horizontal span? I forget which is the right setting but one or the other kills fps, the other's more stable/playable. System specs look fine otherwise(other than having an 8600 instead of 8800, for shame :p)

[keyclone]

driver version? did you dnload the latest?

[crzywolve]

ok ..

Vista ... latest gforce drivers .. dual-view side by side for monitors ... and I have no idea what you ment about the gfx sliders

[Eteocles]

Try Horizontal Span rather than Dual-View, see if that helps; if not, try downgrading the GeForce drivers; Newest != Best, and I had issues with an nvidia card long ago back on win98, upgrading made everything crash, reverted to old drivers and bam everything worked fine again...and I haven't updated my drivers now in forever and everything runs smoothly lol

[crzywolve]

I don't know if I'm just missing it or what, but it will not let me go to horizontal span ... it's either dual view or clone and I don't want clone. I'll try going back to an older driver and see what happens, but so far nothing is working.

[keyclone]

there is always that crazy idea... to actually call the manufacturers tech support line (yea... likelihood of them helping... 40%.. which is worth a shot)

IWVB

[Stabface]

I believe the new driver model in Vista is not susceptible to the same performance issue with multi-monitor setups that XP was. As you note there's only 2 settings now in Vista - clone or dual view.

I recommend running Task Manager and/or Resource Monitor, they will show you if you have a bottleneck on your CPU, memory, or HDD.