A second video card or CPU upgrade?

[crankshaft]

I recently started using a second monitor for my MFDs in A10 as well as Helios for my cockpit. I noticed a significant drop in FPS, that is making me think of upgrading my PC.

Am I correct to think that adding a second video card will be the best way to enhance FPS when using multiple monitors? Running the second monitor on the second card rather than both off the same graphics card? My system;

 

core 2 quad 9550 running at 3.2ghz

nvidia GTX 460

4 gigs ram

 

Thanks

 

crank

[Depth]

Welcome :)

 

460 is pretty decent, the bottleneck here is the CPU. I say go for a motherboard/CPU upgrade.

[mjolner]

Check out the multi-monitor sub-forum. You will find lots of similar questions discussed and get lots of ideas. Generally speaking multi monitor setups benefit from GPUs that are geared to handle the extra load.

[spikenet]

you could try SofTH and see if it helps. You can run the game fullscreen with helios that way.

 

However, I think if you want that sort of configuration you will need to upgrade the CPU.

[Bodo]

What 460 is it? 768MB or 1GB? I'd recommend an upgrade to the GPU, or buy another maybe to use two monitors? Not sure how that works but if FPS only dropped after setting up second monitor, surely that\s GPU related, no?\