Dedicating a Video Card to ISBoxer run Games

I have the same problem with wow
I play with 5 accounts on 2 monitors
one is for my main
the other is for my 4 slaves

I have a radeon hd6870 powering my main's monitor
and a radeon hd 6850 for my slaves

somehow the 5 windows only use my 6870 and my 6850 is sitting idle

i found that if i change my primary display it does the opposite

my 6850 is at 100% load while the 6870 sits idle

[MiRai]

You need to disable Cross-Monitor Swapping in your Window Layout and you may also need to use DX9 on the clients that aren't going to be attached to the primary display.

nope with directx 9 and cross monitor swapping its still the 6870 that renders everything, 756 mb used vs 40mb for the 6850 and all my clients are on ultra settings....

i tried going in the console configuration page and go to dx9 and select display 4 and dx11 display 1 and it didnt work either

so i found a solution, just got myself a new gtx570... put my 6850 on ebay and im using the 6870 for my slaves... works like a charm with all my char set on ultra and max antialiasing on my main... found out from amd tech that the drviers are not made to use 2 cards without xfire and they are not planning on adding that functionality because the demand isnt there... yet nvidia does... oh well i can go back to getting ready for mop

I know this is an old post but this is relevant for anyone else like me setting this up and going into a Klingon battle frenzy thinking this is true:

found out from amd tech that the drivers are not made to use 2 cards without xfire and they are not planning on adding that functionality because the demand isnt there... yet nvidia does...

Just got my other second hand freebie Radeon today and was having this same problem also. Read this part and just about had an aneurysm. I have been having freezing problems with my single card setup and was desperately hoping this would fix it without spending more money which I don't have anyway.

KKKKKHHHHHHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!

Turns out this is all wrong (its worse than that, he's dead Jim) - and thank Shatner (hallowed be thy name) for that! It may have been true at the time but is now illogical Jim.

The trick I found was that you have to recreate your window layouts from scratch.

My guess:
The Display handles are hard coded into the ISboxer configuration and cannot be changed from the GUI on an existing layout. For example my original monitors were identified as "Display 1" and "Display 2". Now they are "Display 8" and "Display 10" or some rubbish.
Of course when the window binding happens it is hard coded to bind to display 2 which no longer exists. (verified this in the innerspace console.) Then through some GPU Dx Magic it displays on the secondary monitor but is GPU'd on the primary graphics card.
Recreating the windows layout has solved this and even though you do not see any visual difference the GPU meters do not lie. Also the console is now "forcing Display 8" as it should.

This will effect people who change up their monitor setup (e.g. adding/swapping/removing) and triggering a relabeling of key monitors. (I have now tested it) So something to be aware of.

I imagine you can edit the xml directly yourself also and I saw the handles in there to do so. It seemed relatively straightforward but I wanted to be sure so recreated.
Not sure if this is a feature, fix or bug that needs to be added to the backlog or not? But there is a workaround.


Anyways. There you go. There is hope for broke people like me with crappy video cards.

This setup works amazingly well and no freezes or crashes yet so I Sulu level happy with this. Also the cost of this setup (even had I bought both cards new) was fractions of what I would have spent on a single card.


PS: I am not really a big star trek fan - just a crazy person.