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How do you run SofTH?

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Trackr

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If you can only run 2 monitors on one GPU, you would need to have an identical GPU to run the third monitor, or performance will be very low overall.

Which means that you have to choose between having SLi enabled on the primary middle-monitor and having to re-do the cables to run SofTH.

Is this right?
 
I'm not trying to nitpick, but what is SofTH? Did you mean SoftTH?

I had to google SofTH and it comes back asking if I mean Software Triple Head. I'm not to familiar with multiple monitor setups.
 
Trackr said:
Guess I missed a 't'? :confused:



Why would you be tracking me..? :mad:
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It's a Millitary term meaning I'm understanding what your saying. Basically I'm saying that I'm not following what your talking about. I guess with the information you posted above I get it now. :D
 
The second card doesn't need to match, it just has to be able to display something. The main card renders everything.
 
First, only 1 GPU is rendering, so that's an immediate 50% performance loss. Then there's the performance loss of moving the rendered data from the render card to the other card for display ... and it only works for DX8/DX9 the web page says.
 
xorbe said:
First, only 1 GPU is rendering, so that's an immediate 50% performance loss. Then there's the performance loss of moving the rendered data from the render card to the other card for display ... and it only works for DX8/DX9 the web page says.
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That's silly; you might as well say it's an 85% performance loss to only have 1 GPU in a motherboard with 7 slots. The secondary GPU used by softth was never intended to do any rendering and there is no rendering workload that is being lost/shifted to the primary card.

There is a performance hit from moving the data across PCI-E to the second card and there is some overhead from the softth program coordinating all of this, but it's certainly nowhere near 50% unless you're doing something terribly wrong like placing your second graphics card in a PCI-E 1x slot.

I haven't used softth in a really long time, but on things it supports, it works quite well.
 
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