Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hey guys!

So, I am new to the wide screen gaming forum, and wide screen gaming for that matter. I have an intel duo 3.16 mhz cpu, 4gb ddr3 1333 ram, windows vista 64, gtx 460 768mb gpu, 3 Asus vh236h monitors, and a digital th2go. I have noticed that running wings of prey under a resolution of 5040 x 1050 @57hz is having fps problems in high intensive graphics portions of the game. If I drop all my graphics qualities down to low it almost disappears, but not completely. However, I want to run all the settings all on high. If I get another gtx460 768mb card and do sli will those problems go away? And if I have two cards, can I achieve the same 5040 x 1050 resolution with higher fps without the th2go? I am just trying to figure out the cheapest way to achieve seamless gaming with the hardware that I already have. Do I just need a different graphics card all together?

Thanks for the help in advance.

So you got 5040x1050 working after all ? ;)

Wings of Prey is a pretty graphics-intensive game altogether, so obviously running it at multi-monitor resolutions will have a performance cost. Getting a second 768 MB card would help, but not that much - 1, 2 or even 3 cards would still be hindered by the low quantity of VRAM. If you like full-on FX and extreme resolutions, you should get cards with at least 1 GB of VRAM.

Read Paradigm Shifter's excellent article on the subject: NVIDIA GTX460 in Surround: 1GB vs. 2GB - Featured Review

Now, going SLI (preferably with 2-GB 460s :) ) would let you get rid of TripleHead2Go and use Nvidia Surround instead. Main benefits: no custom resolutions & refresh rates to manually set + full support of DX10/11 at 5040x1050. Drawback: next time you wish to upgrade your graphics system, you'll have to buy two cards to be able to game on three monitors.

The 768MB card was really the wrong card to buy if you wanted to go with any resolution higher than 1080p.

So....are you saying that purchasing another 768mb GTX460 so that I could go SLI would be a waste of money? How much of a performance increase can I expect with purchasing two gtx480 1gb gpu's over 2 GTX460 768mb in SLI? Is the performance increase worth the extra money?

GTX480 1.5GB, or GTX460 1GBs?

Twin 480s would obviously be a massive increase. 1GB 460s would be a boost, but less of one except at fairly high resolutions.

768MB of VRAM tops out a heck of a lot faster than 1GB at high details and resolutions, though.

With a single 1gb 5850 I get an average of 40 fps with max settings (no AA) @5916x1080. I would think sli 1 gb 460's would be plenty enough for your resolution.