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Graphics Card Question

Father Xmas

By Father Xmas,
Posted on: 2010-03-25 21:12 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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So Uncle sam sent me a nice big rebate check this year and I got myself a nice new Geforce GTX 285 1 GB video card, just for Ultra Mode! Well for all my games but still.

So come to find out Nvidia has a problem with multiple monitor displays on the same Video card now. Whenever I run Coh or really any 3d intensive game on one monitor, both monitors get rather choppy. I looked up the problem and it has to do with Nvidia drivers apparently don't adjust clock speeds very well when using multiple monitors.

So my question is this. Can I use my new GTX 285 and my old 9800gtx + at the same time? I know I can't put them in SLI mode, but if I plug them both into my comp and run one monitor off the 9800 while running games off the 285, will this work? Will this melt my PC or my video cards? I honestly don't know the rules in using 2 different cards at the same time.

"Where does he get those wonderful toys?" - The Joker

 

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In regards to cooling. Is there anything you recomend? I have 3 case fans already, one on the side, front and back. Anything else I should be doing?

"Where does he get those wonderful toys?" - The Joker

 

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you need to make sure your power supply is going to put out enough power to run both and the rest of your comp at the same time.

 

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The best way to deal with this issue is to go into the NVidia 3D control panel and adjust the game setting for CityOfHeroes.exe. Make a game setting that changes the Multi-Display mode to "Single Display performance" or something like that. I don't remember the exact wording. Once you do that, the secondary monitor will update slower, but that's OK. You want the game to update quickly.