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Trypho
Minmatar Infinitus Odium The Church.
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Posted - 2007.11.02 15:05:00 -
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Hello,
I recently got hold of a second display I want to use to control both my main and alt at the same time on the same machine. This does work, but with a noticable FPS drop (from 90 -> ~25 in station). This is kind of OK for escorting my alt and so on, but not good enough for PVP.
A friend of mine has a more decent graphics card and lower latency memory, and he can run two accounts on two screens without any slowdown at all.
My PC`s specs are:
AMD 4200+ X2 (clocked at 2.8 GHZ) MSI 7800 GTX 256MB with 2 times 1280 x 1024 2GB PC3200 on max. speeds (1T and so) Windows XP x64 with nvidia 169.04 driver 74GB Raptors in RAID0
What are your suggestions? Where is the bottleneck in this system for dual screen accounting? I`ve seen it run alot better at my friends place then on my PC, so that got me thinking!
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rand0m person
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Posted - 2007.11.02 16:53:00 -
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Probably video memory. You're essentially running 2560 x 2048 on a video card that only has 256MB of memory.
Easy enough to find out what your bottleneck is though. Turn your resolution in game down to the lowest it can go (ie: 800 x 600) on each account. Now cruise around and take note of your average FPS (or find a benchmark for Eve). Now you have the high mark, this is the most FPS you'll ever get because you're now bottlenecking on the CPU.
Now start to raise your resolution and keep taking note of the FPS. If it drops considerably (and it will) your video card is the bottleneck.
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Trypho
Minmatar Infinitus Odium The Church.
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Posted - 2007.11.02 17:58:00 -
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Thanks for your response, this is a possibility since he has 512MB video memory... My resolution however is 2560 x 1024 (twice the width, one time the height).
More people with the same theory? Any tricks on how to get it to work better perhaps?
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BBQ
Gallente The Scope
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Posted - 2007.11.02 19:40:00 -
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The problems you have are caused by XP and the way it treats dual monitors. There are ways around it that work perfectly. I ran 2 monitors and 2 clients under XP before I swapped to Vista (which fixed the problems with dual screens).
Ok, what you have to do.
You must run the clients in window mode For a beginner you need to set the resolution lower than the screen resolution. It is possible to run at screen res but it gets tricky. Launch the client you want to appear on the 2nd screen, adjust it to the correct size and then under the graphics card change it to use the 2nd card listed. XP lists one fake card for each screen. When you click apply the frame rate will drop very low. Drag the window onto the 2nd monitor and it will speed up again. NO PART of the window must be touching the 1st monitor or the fps will fall to rock bottom again.
Now the client on the 2nd screen is working launch the client for the first screen and again make sure that no part of this client overlaps over onto the 2nd screen or the framerate will drop to rock bottom.
Tada - you now have 2 screens, 2 clients and above all they are working at full speed. ----
God gave us a brain, he also gave us a voice.
Shame some people have yet to connect them.
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Trypho
Minmatar Infinitus Odium The Church.
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Posted - 2007.11.02 21:23:00 -
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Thanks to you aswell, this caused improvement aswell! :)
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P Rick
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Posted - 2007.11.04 00:23:00 -
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i have a 7600GT (256mb DDR3) with dual DVI-out running into 2 monitors. To set it up correctly you can do as the guy above without the overlapping screens, however thats really frustrating, i used to do this then found a much better way of doing it, thanks to someone here.
Goto Control Panel, and select nvidia control panel.
select display, then "change display configuration"
Set the mode to "dualview" and select your either monitor as the primary, click apply.
Screen will change and you should have one screen with a taskbar, one without. Boot eve, and set the client resolution to what you want (i have to do this, because for some reason when in the setting i use, if i change my resolution then it doesnt give me the option for 1280*1024 for some reason, it only lists 1024*768 OR widescreen resolutions!)
You will have to boot eve and login to each account you own, on as many clients as you own to set them all up correctly (remember test server, as its a pain in the arse to change.
close all eve clients. Go back to the Nvidia control panel > display > change display config.
Select "horizontal span" from the list and select the left monitor as your primary one. Click apply, and then close.
Voila, eve should boot with no issues of overlaps, faster, and dual client on dual screens should work fine. I have a similar setup to you (1gb ram, AMD 3800+) and experienced the same issues after installing the second monitor, but this has worked superb for the last 4 months or so
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GM Tacgnol
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Posted - 2007.11.04 01:24:00 -
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Very easy to fix.
Simply hit escape on the account that's running on the secondary monitor, and change "display adapter" to the second option - You will see two instances of your graphics card - the latter is the second monitor.
This will make you run the clients on two monitors with no (or very minimal) framerate drop compared to running two clients on one monitor.
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