triple monitors on a gtx titan.

[Bandit.]

after my prevoius thread i realised that a cpu upgrade perhaps isnt where my money would be best spend for dcs world. so, i started think of giving a go at using triple monitors. i currently have a 2560×1440 27 incher. for the sake of making all monitor look the same i wouls simple get 2 more od the exact same model.

 

i would en up with an immense 7680x 1400 res. is my i7 920 + gtx titan going to be abke ti m hadnlw that well ? does anyone have similar setup? and dinally since ive never tried it is the is thisn a game changer upgrade like when tou.use tr rackir for the first time or is ir more like a nice addon to have

Edited July 26, 2013 by Bandit.

[_Dredd]

I have 4 monitors running on Titan. There's a few others also.

It will be fine, but expect frames averaging around 30fps mark with everything maxed.

6GB VRAM is needed.

 

What are you using now?

[jay43]

I don't have the Titan I have the 690 with 3 monitors check spec in spoiler and my average fps is 60 or just below all the time the downside is the 690 is expensive.

[Kuky]

It makes big difference if you're using 1 or 3 viewports with triple monitor setup, so if you want to state if you have good or bad FPS you should note which one you are having ;)

[Bandit.]

hey kuky xould you mind pointing me in the right direction so I xan read about this viewport stuff? how well do you think a titan will handle x3 2560X1440 monitors?

[jay43]

It makes big difference if you're using 1 or 3 viewports with triple monitor setup, so if you want to state if you have good or bad FPS you should note which one you are having ;)

 

 

I take it this was aimed at me and I thought it would be obvious from my spoiler must edit it sorry but Multi Gpu enabled on the 690 means I am using Nvidia surround mode res is 5920 x 1080.

Hope this clears it up.

[Kuky]

to push lot of pixels (ie with triple monitors) you do need top end video card but performance hit will still be on CPU if you use 3 view ports (default 3Camera settings in game used 3 viewports and 1Camera uses 1 viewport)

 

Each viewport renders the whole world so 3 viewports means 3x times DCS world (terrain etc) rendering and that takes quite a hit. For example... 1Camera I can be getting 60FPS while with 3Camera it'll be like 25FPS. So even though I am still running same amount of pixels the FPS difference is there. This is why I said it's important to note if you use 1 or more viewports when stating if you have good or bad FPS with multi-monitors (ie person A has 3 monitors and says "my FPS is really low" then person B also uses 3 monitors but says "I get quite good FPS" etc... then person A doesn't get why he's getting much lower FPS compared to person B and things it's something wrong on his end/PC)

[Hadwell]

well i can run on 5760x1080 with a single gtx780 on a i7 2600k@4.5GHz and get a decent framerate, need to turn anti-aliasing way down... totally playable... i haven't checked the framerate, but i don't get any choppyness, so its gotta be 30+ fps

 

to run on 3x 2560X1440 monitors, u'd need to turn ur settings waaaaaaay down, and u'd probly be better off just using 1 monitor... in a case like that it's probably the quality of the graphics settings over quantity of pixels...

Edited July 27, 2013 by Hadwell

[jay43]

to push lot of pixels (ie with triple monitors) you do need top end video card but performance hit will still be on CPU if you use 3 view ports (default 3Camera settings in game used 3 viewports and 1Camera uses 1 viewport)

 

Each viewport renders the whole world so 3 viewports means 3x times DCS world (terrain etc) rendering and that takes quite a hit. For example... 1Camera I can be getting 60FPS while with 3Camera it'll be like 25FPS. So even though I am still running same amount of pixels the FPS difference is there. This is why I said it's important to note if you use 1 or more viewports when stating if you have good or bad FPS with multi-monitors (ie person A has 3 monitors and says "my FPS is really low" then person B also uses 3 monitors but says "I get quite good FPS" etc... then person A doesn't get why he's getting much lower FPS compared to person B and things it's something wrong on his end/PC)

 

 

I see interesting so If I understand this correctly my set up would be Nvidia 690GTX multi Gpu enabled running Samsung MD230x3 in surround mode, set in DCS to 1 Camera, Resolution 5920 x 1080.

[Kuky]

1Camera runs pretty good (on my system at least) but then you need to increase FoV (field of view) because very wide resolution will make you seem to lean forward into HUD and you'll complain it looks too close and top/bottom are cut off... so you increase that FoV and it starts to look better at front (HUD) but then you get lot of stretching of the image in the sides. This is the reason I prefer 3Camera setting (stretching on edges of monitors is not noticeable) but then you sacrifice good amount of FPS

[jay43]

1Camera runs pretty good (on my system at least) but then you need to increase FoV (field of view) because very wide resolution will make you seem to lean forward into HUD and you'll complain it looks too close and top/bottom are cut off... so you increase that FoV and it starts to look better at front (HUD) but then you get lot of stretching of the image in the sides. This is the reason I prefer 3Camera setting (stretching on edges of monitors is not noticeable) but then you sacrifice good amount of FPS

 

 

Thanks Kuky that gives me a better idea as to whats going on my end and how to better improve it.

Sorry Bandit we seem to have hijacked your thread.