Does cooperative play increase the load on the computer by 2?

revoo

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Hey guys,

I was wondering if playing on 2 monitors, in the same game in co op would equal to the computer rendering two instances of the game essentially increasing the load factor by a 2.

Is this how it works or is there optimization that comes into play?
 

Jay Lavistria

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I would not think so.
It would do more work of course, since the GPU is now rendering 2 point of views, not to mention you're stressing it out with the second monitor, but I would suspect such a game to utilize that split screen to also optimize for minimal GPU load possible.
If I had a guess...I'd say 1.5-1.7x the work.