Help me solve this performance problem please :)

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Whipsmack

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Okay I play everquest 2, I enjoy playing 2 characters at once with 2 accounts on a single monitor. Recently I purchase a 2nd monitor so that I can send one of the clients screen over to it. My computer can handle both clients just fine on the one screen. They both run at 1440 x 900 resolution.

As soon as I move one of the clients over to my 2nd screen it lags the computer HORRIBLY. Completely unplayable maybe 2 frames per second. Even if an inch is over onto the 2nd screen it lags no matter what.

I don't understand why it is doing this. The video card is working just as hard when its on one screen, they are both open layered on top of eachother...is there some weird setting i'm missing or does 2nd monitors fubar things up?

Thanks!
 
Whipsmack said:
I don't understand why it is doing this. The video card is working just as hard when its on one screen, they are both open layered on top of eachother...is there some weird setting i'm missing or does 2nd monitors fubar things up?

Thanks!
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The video card is not working just as hard with 1 monitor as it is with 2

When on 1 monitor your GPU is drawing fromes for ONLY the one being shown it is not drawing frames for both instances. When on 2 monitors its drawing frames for both at once wich is a very considerable difference.
 
but when i'm on one screen I actually shrink the windows down so that they both fit on the screen and are both viewable at the same time.
 
Whipsmack said:
but when i'm on one screen I actually shrink the windows down so that they both fit on the screen and are both viewable at the same time.
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I know its not exactly the same but i 2 box EQ1 and my vid card takes a shit trying to run 2 monitors at once. So i just use eqwindows to switch between the 2.

Maybe its an Nvidia driver issue? what card are you using?
 
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