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Dual Displays and Game Performance
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RevEvs
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Oct 12, 2003, 03:20 PM
 
Ok, so i just realised that having two displays connected is seperating the gfx card RAM to 32MB each per monitor.

So i just did some benchmarks (in UT2K3) with one screen and then two screens connected (the second screen does nothing, just stays black), i was thinking that with one display and the whole 64MB that it would be much faster, but the fps from the benchmarks turned out to be pretty much exactly the same.

Do games (UT2K3, Quake3 etc) disable the second screen so they get all 64MB or what?

Just trying to work out whats best, I was assuming that id have to disconnect the second monitor before playing any games to get a better fps, but the benchmark seemed to prove that incorrect.

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Oct 12, 2003, 03:37 PM
 
Nah, the second screen is auto-disabled so the gameplay screen gets all the attention (and RAM and such). On my dual-display setup it does this on all the games I play.
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Oct 12, 2003, 03:50 PM
 
ah good good. I thought so once i saw the benchmarks.

Would go back to playing Urban Terror, but someone on my network is making my ping go sky high...

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