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How to improve performance running 2 instances on 2 monitors with separate video cards
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Franck Nardieu
Verdant Vanguard
#1 - 2013-03-02 18:09:37 UTC
I'm running 2 clients in windowed mode and when I do this my framerate drops to exactly half of what it normally is. I'm using a GTX 660Ti and a GTX 560, both are capable of running Eve at 60+fps, but when I have 2 clients in windowed mode I get 30fps. In each client I change the display adaptor to the right one that the monitor is hooked up to.

I have 8GB RAM and each client takes up about 1-1.5, so that's not an issue and the CPU (i5 2500K) is hardly working, how can I get both clients to run at full speed? Would it be better if I made a copy of the install directory and ran one client off the copy? I don't think disk access is the issue as I'm using an SSD.

Any thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions?

Thanks
KATASKOPOS
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-03-05 09:16:08 UTC
How are the nVidia's connected, both on your PC? In SLI? If yes how are the two monitors beeing connected and driven by the cards?