...with my triple screen resolution, my Precision X tells me I have 2200+MB being used at times. More when taking a screenshot during flight.

I'm stickin' with 3GB (or more)! But that's just me....

*shrug*

You're welcome.

I agree with you WWBrian, my 2X580's are the 1.5 gig versions and if I run at high resolutions, when I am on the ground my frame rate can be in the 40's or even 30's when I look behind me, but as soon as I am above the trees it is back up to 60.
BF3 is similar, at a high resolution it is a stuttering mess, but if I lower the resolution and crank up the eye candy it is over 60fps solid. The more vram, the better for the high resolutions

It still looks pretty good though!

oops it seems to be resizing it on me

Only "Pretty good"? You're just being modest.

...I think it looks darn good!

I think the reason you may be using so much memory is your mismatched monitors...because of the variety of resolutions, you'll end up rendering more scope/space than you are actually seeing.

It sure does look good though

Nah...it's because I'm rendering around twice as many pixels as most.

1440x900 = 1,296,000 pixels. So 1.296 megapixels x 3 monitors = 3,888,000 pixels, or 3.888 megapixels.


For me, I'm rendering 1.92 + 4.096 + 1.92 = 7.936 megapixels!!!

...you will find out soon enough, that when you start talking these ultra-wide resolutions, the more vertical res you have, the quicker that shiznit adds up! ( for reference - Im rendering more pixels VERTICALLY, then many are horizontally!! )

These monitors aren't mismatched - they're actually perfect for each other!

Watch the 20-30-20 PLP grow in popularity...mark my words.
It really does look much better than 3 identical 16:9 monitors! ( <---my opinion anyway)

I'm thinking of a GPU upgrade and the cost difference between a 3Gb 580 and a 2Gb 680 is a lot. The brute force of the 580 is pretty much countered by the onboard overclocking on the 680 and the power management on the newer card means it draws far less power and runs cooler.

Its a tough call and when my 570 is running so well I'm leaning towards waiting until I really need to upgrade.

Here's some screenies of some of my squadron mates during our last ROF night...
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