FPS problems in dual dvi mode

[thekarney]

I am having serious fps problems when running two or more games/apps with any video motion on both screens at the same time. This includes Windows Media player visualization which I can run at like 500fps on one screen but drops to about 1-5 fps when its running with a game on the adjacent monitor.

I thought at first that it might be just an overload for memory but I have 1gb of high speed ram at 2-2-2-8 timings and a gfx card with 512mb of ram so I don't think it's lack of resources.

I also thought it may be a driver problem so I updated the vid card with the latest catalyst drivers and still the same problem.

Anyone else have any ideas or questions to help me narrow the problem down?

 

[thekarney]

bump

no one has a dual monitor display? I'm pretty loss right now.

 

[Peter]

Most of today's graphics cards have only one acceleration surface available. This means that when you're rendering 3D or watching a video, you can't do anything similar at the same time. One or two screens doesn't matter.

The media player visualization does use such a surface - that's why it's losing all its speed when you're playing a game at the same time.

 

[thekarney]

The only time I have problems though is when its in windowed mode. Even one application will run at 1-2 fps when in windowed mode including Windows MP. When I go to full screen visualization though, the problem goes right away.

Thanks for posting.

 

[SonicIce]

Maybe it's slowing the core and memory clocks when the game does not have focus?