FFXI and Dual Monitors

[Izzy]

I run a dual monitor setup and would like to have seperate FFXI clients open on each monitor or be able to drag a FFXI window over to the 2nd monitor. However, when i drag FFXI to the 2nd monitor, it is VERY laggy like .5fps laggy. I was wondering if there was some way to get the 2nd monitor accelerated to be able to drag a window over there.

[Mikeal]

I run a dual monitor setup and would like to have seperate FFXI clients open on each monitor or be able to drag a FFXI window over to the 2nd monitor. However, when i drag FFXI to the 2nd monitor, it is VERY laggy like .5fps laggy. I was wondering if there was some way to get the 2nd monitor accelerated to be able to drag a window over there.

Run seperate video cards perhaps (SLI) would improve your performance.

I do pretty well on dual montors either side but I cant crank 1600x1200 like I do in single screen mode.

[khain]

are you talking about running 2 seperate ffxi accounts? I think I've seen this done but it might have been 2 seperate PCs beside each other.

[Sonomaa]

second monitors are not hardware accelerated, so you cant run ffxi on them (already tried) so yeah, a second video card is the only way
I personally dualbox (2 computers)
once people do that they generally never want to dual on one pc ever again

[Izzy]

is there any way to turn hardware acceleration on for the 2nd monitor?

[Charitwo]

Not really

[Priran]

was I the only one that read "Duel Monsters"

[cassiraa]

SLI by definition only provides video for one monitor with both video cards handling different parts of the same screen. You'd ideally use a SLI motherboard and not activate the SLI Bridge, so you have 2 PCI-E Cards running independant monitors.

If you don't have that kind of motherboard [or money x.x] you can run a 2nd PCI graphics card. GeForce 6200 PCI isn't horrible for a pci graphics card.

[Izzy]

SLI by definition only provides video for one monitor with both video cards handling different parts of the same screen. You'd ideally use a SLI motherboard and not activate the SLI Bridge, so you have 2 PCI-E Cards running independant monitors.

If you don't have that kind of motherboard [or money x.x] you can run a 2nd PCI graphics card. GeForce 6200 PCI isn't horrible for a pci graphics card.

ok, i'll check into that! thanks a bunch

[Reality]

with specific hardware and drivers, you can run widescreen in which both screens are hardware accelerated (games like Quake 3 support dual-head tech, allowing for widescreen gaming)

i know that old matrox parhelia (it flopped) card allowed you to do this, but i know my 9800 pro doesn't

[Matricide]

dont bother. ffxi uses CPU for most of the processing so video isnt goingto make a difference. if you seroiusly want to run 2 solid copies yer just gonna have to use a second PC.

[inafume]

If the game is developed to run with different video cards (checking your system and giving you a list of the cards in it) it should work. The DirectX API at least has this in later versions.

FFXI most likely doesn't support it though.

[Sendra]

was I the only one that read "Duel Monsters"

Probably.

[Zigma]

is there any way to turn hardware acceleration on for the 2nd monitor?

Yes but I'm not sure how a 9700 will support it since it's a bit out of date as far as technology goes. It's usually all in the drivers.

Try downloading the FireGL drivers from ATi and see if that solves your problem.

[Plow]

Am I the only one who's amazed to see someone type "dual monitors" on the internet and not use any E's

[Fire]

If you have Catalyst control center, there is an option to enable hardware acceleration on 2nd monitor. it in a sense combines the resolution of both monitors (i.e. 2560x1024). with this you can run a ffxi window on each monitor. only problem with it is that sometimes it will mess up the aspect ratio on other programs.

[Izzy]

If you have Catalyst control center, there is an option to enable hardware acceleration on 2nd monitor. it in a sense combines the resolution of both monitors (i.e. 2560x1024). with this you can run a ffxi window on each monitor. only problem with it is that sometimes it will mess up the aspect ratio on other programs.

where do i do this in the control center?

[Raineer]

I did this and never had any trouble >_>

Nvidia 7800 GTX, not overclocked (at the time) or anything special, I saw no difference between the 2 screens.

The only thing that annoyed me was the controller bug where one session goes wacky. I had to unplug USB controller and go all keyboard but never had a problem ever.

I did run the 2nd session at like 800x600, not in fullscreen mode. This might have made a difference, but moving them between screens was 0 issue at all.

[Izzy]

omg i got it!

there is a setting to stretch monitor 1 to monitor 2 without using extended desktop therefore giving monitor 2 the graphics acceleration. thank you!

[Kaiseran]

was I the only one that read "Duel Monsters"

Sadly, no....I too, know YuGiOh