You say I'll need to have both monitors run the same resolution? That could be a problem... my current monitor only supports 1680x1050

That's pretty hot. A shame my P55-GD65 can only hold 16gb of RAM. Though that's still twice what I have now, which really should be sufficient until the next Intel tock(22nm tock, unless the 22nm tick is a must-have upgrade. Who knows )

Go t o your computer's display and settings, you can tell it to make your screen run at any resolution that you want. Make sure that the screen with the highest resolution is the same as the screen with the lowest resolution. This will make it easier on your video card.


My lowest res screen is 1440 by 900, and so I have to set my high res screen to the same settings in order to make eve lag less on 2 screens.

1. Both screens need to be at the same resolution (regardless of what type of screens you have)
2. You will probably get lag and low FPS on two screens if you don't have a great computer setup.
3. To reduce lag reduce the resolution of the actual EVE Client and run it in window mode
4. Expand said windows with your mouse until they are the size of your screen
5. DO NOT double click on the game to make it stick to the full size of the screen (this will cause lag with lesser video cards) It can be the same size as your screen, you just can "sticky it", don't ask me why. So make sure that you resize it with your mouse.

I need just 1 more account and i can run missions with a guy repping me, thats all. Now 6 accounts later....I only need 2 more and ill be fine.

Running 6 accounts on 1 pc with 2 screens... Key was making sure your pc has plenty of memory (currently have 12 gigs of on board memory)
runs smooth.

Funny story. I used to do lvl4 missions with one monitor and one account.

Then i got a second account, and alt-tabed.

Then i got a second monitor, and transitioned between them.

Then i got ISBoxer, and used both accounts in one monitor. Without alt-tabbing. Using 100% of the screen with one client.

As much as i'll get flamed or whatnot for this, here goes.

First, it's dual, not duel, you don't fight your box do you?

Secondly, getting tired of Manufacturers calling them LED displays. They're not, they're LCD. What they are is LED backlit as opposed to CCFL backlit.

Awesome, but aside from correcting people you really didn't add anything to the discussion

LED TV has become the standard. Such as laser tv which in reality is just another light source for the throw. Yes there are the extremely large LED billboards and OLED type tech for phones. Yet for low power display LED is just easier for the layman to understand.

And the cost per inch or per pixel is so different between all three that I doubt anyone is going to be seriously confused for long.

You must be speaking of early generation panels using LED backlit. My current screen looks just as good as my power eating CCFL and I don't have to worry about it heating my room.

Yes I know that is likely a low priority for you. Yet for me and many others it is a great investment. Especially in big screen TVs where the older tech eats as much power as a CRT.

First of all: You want two monitors anyway. After only a few days you'll start asking yourself how you made do with just one.

As far as EVE is concerned: I simply play in windowed mode. This way you can switch between clients just like any other application.

Was just going to post about this:

I currently have a machine that is unable to run EVE on multiple screens - the minute I drag the game onto the second screen, the FPS drops significantly to a point where you are like a fast paced slide show. It also happens when I launch the second account onto the second screen. According to the GM's or Tech GM's they said it was Windows XP being unable to support the ability to run across both screens. One is a 22" and the other a 24". I tried running the game at the same resolution on both screens and different resolutions, and finally tried running the game across both screens using their different max resolutions, and then the max resolution for the smaller screen - none of the above worked.

Current specs are:
Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz
4GB RAM (3.25 useable due to XP 32bit).
Nvidia 560ti (DDR5 - 1GB)

Not sure what the issue is, the graphics card is more than capable of handing the instances of EVE. Has EVE become more CPU demanding rather than GPU? The ram is low I know, but it should be able to handle it (I can dual boot no problem, triple boxing starts to run into issues)

I plan on upgrading this PC:

Intel i7-2700k at 3.5Ghz - Turboboost up to 3.9Ghz
16GB DDR3 Ram
Nvidia 560ti (DDR5 - 1GB) - Same graphics card from old computer


The intel motherboard that comes with the CPU has 1 PCI-E 16.0 slot or I can set it to run 2 PCI-E 8.0 slots in SLI. My question is - whats better?

1 560ti at 16.0 or 2 at 8.0 (I'm fuzzy in that area whats the difference between 16.0 and 8.0)?

Or would it just be best to stick with one card, but find something better than the 560ti?

I want to be able to run 2 instances on 2 separate screens at the same time, and be able to switch back and fourth while using both of them.

I also want to be able to dual box a third account on one of the screens.

Any help is appreciated.

These wall mounting things work good

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/BaxterT/Computer%20Room/ComputerLivingRoom1.jpg

I run 3 (24" 1920x1200) screens between 2 computers with a KVM switch to swap the images depending on what I'm doing. It's pretty cheap to piece together a secondary computer that can run EVE especially if you're don't need all the eye candy turned up for a secondary client. Most monitors these days have a standard holes on the back that will support the VESA mount found on multiple-monitor stands (a huge desk space saver).

One of my monitors is 1680x1050, the other 1920x1080, no problem. Just copy your eve client so you have 2 with different resolutions, call one "right" and one "left".

I don't know what you guys are talking about...my normal install of EvE allows me to run as many clients as I want from it. The only thing I have to do is change the resolution and what monitor it appears on when I open it a second time, third time and whatever. Never gone past 3.

Monitors you say? MONITORS? Check this out.

http://www.cambio.net/monitors.jpg