Most of the time ACT uses less then 10% of a core and under 300 mb of ram. ACT is a database program which keeps track of everything that goes on in one of my EQ2 windows and provides some additional functionality. Additionally, 'ACT' runs in the background at all times, which eats up to 1 core and up to 2 gb of ram depending on how much data has been pumped in to it. The cpu usage will peg out about 1 core on whichever i'm using, then the other drops to about half a core. The ram stays about right, but the cpu usage drops way out. You would think that running two instances would then double the maxes of both of those. Typically the game runs about 750-900 mb and 1.1-1.2 cores. Right now, 1 instance of the game will use up to 1.8 gb of ram and up to 1.5 cores during special instances. Is the gpu onboard ram possibly the limitation, or is the gpu processor a limitation? Or is my only option to buy a new motherboard dual+ 2.0 pci-e slot board and throw in a second ati card? Being a convert from fps's (first person shooters), i like my fps (frames per sec) to be high, lag drives me crazy. I've heard people talk about running at highest quality on their computers.and while i can do that on one monitor, on two it runs pretty badly. In my current system (motherboard) i can not upgrade to two graphics cards (assuming i could somehow assign 1 game to each card.rather then using crossfire.which i'm not sure you can do). I'd like to hit 30 fps on two 24 in monitors running 1920x1080 running at a higher graphics quality, and i didn't know what it'd take to do that. I'm running in Raid performance (ui: profitui video choice) on both instances of eq2. I'm doing this now, but i'm getting a bit of a hit on the graphics performance. I'm wanting to run 2 instances of eq2, one on each monitor, as well as ACT, Outlook, ie and anything else i feel like in the background. Currently i'm running a 22 and a 19 in wide screen off of a 4870 512mb ati gpu.
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