deskscapes causing mmo game unstable

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basically heres the drill.

intel i7 X58 2.66ghz

3gb DDR3 triple channel ram

thats more than enough.

GTX460 1gb OC edition (gigabyte)

Geforce 210 512mb

HPw19b 19" widescreen monitor running @ 1440 x 900 (on the 460)

generic monitor running @ 1024 x 768 (on the 210)

 

if i have deskscape installed and either active or paused, it makes final fantasy XIV highly unstable.

the game wont send data to the servers and gets huge spikes in received because of not sending data.

the games software pops up unresonsive then goes back to responding but lagging like hell.

any suggestion OTHER than upgrading the ram because thats NOT an issue would be appreciated.

the game itself is ran in windowed mode @ 1368 x 768 on the 19" monitor

deskscapes
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Is there a reason why you are running two screens on two graphics cards rather than running both off the same powerful graphics card?

Did you enable the option in DeskScapes to support additional graphics cards?  Doing so may increase CPU and PCIE bandwidth usage so you may find you are better off disabling that.

Also are you running a high res video dream?  Does the problem continue if you for example pick the snow or vintage dreams included with DeskScapes?

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

running the trial software at the moment. however i will try your suggestions later on.

thanks niel for the speedy responce.

reguarding the dual monitor on seperate cards,

it was so i can watch a high res movie on my second monitor while playing the game, which works flawlessly. also i kinda lost my dvi-vga adaptor lol looking for it now

i will check the other dreams later on.

 

any info as to why it would lagg the sent/received data for the mmo game though?

 

if i can narrow that down i may be able to resolve the other issue of not responding.

 

dream is lite stribes

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

oh also the miltimonitor option thingy,

 

i didnt even see that so it may/may not be enabled

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

multi gpu support disabled, monitors split accros both gpus + lite stribes dream + quality setting best quality = less "not responding" but still lagging the games data transmissions.

vintage dream + same settings/setup = same results

multi gpu support disabled, both monitors on 460 gpu only + lite stribes dream + quality setting set to regular quaility 2 = more "not responding" and still lagging the games data transmissions. also dream became "choppy"

 vintage dream + same settings/setup = same results

 networking is onboard 10/100/1000 ethernet on the mobo so the network doesnt require the pci-e bandwidth.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What is the cpu usage like at the time?  What process seems to be using a lot?

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

ffxiv uses the most processes.

cpu usage never goes over 40% 50% tops

 

also ram usage rarely goes over 80% usage

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

okay i've been patient enough. STILL trying to get this working!