[EVE] EVE - 2 Screens 2 Account And 2 Video Cards

o/ Hey guys, bare with my poor english ^^

So i'm using an Alienware X51 R2. it has 2 video Cards, " NVIDIA GTX 670 & Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600

So before i even used ISBoxer i tried to run two clients ( 2 EVE Accounts) in the same time.
If i set both clients to run on the NVIDIA the Game will crash in a while, so i set one on the NVIDIA and the other one on the Intel HD Graphics 4600, but i lowered the quality of the graphics on the client which was running the Intel. it worked for a while.. then it started to freeze and crash again!

After using ISBoxer things got smoother. But eventually the Game Crashed

while using the ISBoxer i noticed that one client was running on the NVIDIA and the other was running on the Intel. And i don't have the option to run both on one Video Card (IN GAME OPTIONS)

Furthermore, I noticed a weird thing on the client running the Intel. when i click on ESC button " to access the In-Game Panel " there was TWO Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600! I figured out that if i could run both clients on the NVIDIA using the ISBoxer things will be okay. but i don't have that option.

Questions:
why there's 2 Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 on the 2nd client?
why can't i use one Video Card to Play both clients ?

Notes:

- I'm using a PC HD Samsung Monitor and an HD TV. the samsung is hooked to the NVIDIA and the TV is hooked to the Intel
- My ISBoxer configuration is set to use 2 Monitors separately without the Instant Swapping thing, which enables me to control each screen separately.

Feed back people i just wanna play with my 2 account in the same time, and i thought my PC is capable! after all i spent a lot on it -_-

Thank you

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the samsung is hooked to the NVIDIA and the TV is hooked to the Intel

This is the entire problem you're having. Can you connect both to the NVIDIA? If it's dual output that would be the ideal solution.


Otherwise, the GPU Management wiki article generally covers multiple GPU questions. I'll try to interpret here for your case, since NVIDIA Optimus (usually on laptops for saving battery) is somewhat interesting in this.

Basically, ISBoxer is using the information in your Window Layout to lock each game instance to the correct GPU and monitor, because generally speaking if you place a game window on a monitor powered by the wrong GPU, the FPS is going to drop like a rock. This performance penalty is of course documented by Microsoft and linked from the GPU MAnagement page. Inner Space is not allowing the game instance to see the wrong GPU for your Window Layout, specifically to prevent the game or user from selecting the wrong GPU and incurring the described performance penalty.

Now ... Optimus is interesting here because this is actually what it is made to do. On a laptop, you have one screen, and the system is meant for either GPU to be able to render to this one screen -- so it is good at taking the buffer from either GPU and displaying it. I don't know how this works out on a desktop where you have a physical output for each, so it's entirely possible that you might be able to select either GPU without this penalty.


One simple change to your Window Layout will allow you to force them both onto the NVIDIA GPU, to test this... The GPU is selected by the "Active Region" if there is one, but otherwise it uses the "Home Region". Assuming that your Window Layout is one Character per Screen, with no Swapping, this means you probably don't have an Active Region, just two Home Regions. The simple trick is to select the region shown on the NVIDIA monitor as the Active Region. Here's how.
1. In the top left pane under Window Layouts, select the one for the team you're working with
2. In the bottom left pane, select "Regions"
3. In the bottom right pane, next to the preview, click the Swap Groups tab
4. The "Active region" setting is probably set to <NO REGION>. Set it to either Region 1 or Region 2, depending on which GPU you want to force the game to use!
5. Export to Inner Space, and re-launch your team


That should cover everything