I Can't Believe My GeForce 8800 GTX Can't Handle This...

[zsaddique]

Hi,

I'm in need of a little advice and I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.

We have a high-spec PC (Dell XPS 720 H2C) which has two GeForce 8800 GTX cards. Two 30" monitors and two 17" monitors are connected to this machine.

However, despite the high specs I'm finding that when I run my market trading software (MarketMaker by CMC Markets) the computer slows to a halt and it's too sluggish to run. If I have one monitor connected performance is just fine. In fact, I can run the software fine on my Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop.

I'm guessing for some reason the graphics card can't take the demands of using this software across four monitors but if that's the case there must be something I can do! But I've got a quad-core processor, 4GB of RAM, one of the best graphics cards money can buy... what else do I need?

Can anyone suggest why this may be? Is there a better graphics card on the market that can handle this perhaps?

Cheers,
Zahid

[shaithis]

To be honest, for something like that I would have gone with one of the matrox multi-head cards. No 3d performance to talk of but stellar multi screen support for 2d apps.

The problem you have is not one of performance really, it sounds more like a bug or configuration error.