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zakee00 · Jan 19, 2005

HardOCP SLi Test
Unless they DRASTICLY change the way SLi operates, they can kiss that idea goodbye. For gods sake Everquest II dosn't even work with SLi!!!!!
Nick

Todd33 · Jan 19, 2005

Wow, big surprise. SLI is marketing BS made for benchmarks and people who want to waste cash to brag.

SynthDude2001 · Jan 19, 2005

That surprises me too. I guess it was too much to expect that Nvidia had gotten SLI to work correctly after a few years of development, eh?

BlackAdam · Jan 19, 2005

lol... it's not that hard to get a game to work with SLI. Everybody is making this crap out of nothing. Just edit nvapps.xml and add the SLI line with the correct number for what kind of SLI you want the game to run in.

zakee00 · Jan 19, 2005

why the fvuck should we have to do that in order to get a game to work?!?!! Espically if I had a rig that I paid $1,200 JUST for graphics cards on!

302efi · Jan 19, 2005

Originally posted by: Todd33
Wow, big surprise. SLI is marketing BS made for benchmarks and people who want to waste cash to brag.

Exactly... You couldnt have said it any better

Creig · Jan 19, 2005

Yes, that aspect of SLI definitely hasn't been given a lot of press. However, both VIA and ATI have motherboards coming out that support their own version of SLI. Hopefully one of these will be totally hardware based and won't require any special "driver profiles" to operate.

ATI has already shown a pre-production motherboard that was apparently operating with two different video cards and won't require a link board between the video cards. All video coordination will take place through the PCI-E ports.

JonnyBlaze · Jan 19, 2005

never had to edit a config file before zakee00? not that bad. notepad is in the accesories folder.

JB

Acanthus · Jan 19, 2005

This isnt news, anand said this in his 1st SLI review.

Acanthus · Jan 19, 2005

Originally posted by: Creig
Yes, that aspect of SLI definitely hasn't been given a lot of press. However, both VIA and ATI have motherboards coming out that support their own version of SLI. Hopefully one of these will be totally hardware based and won't require any special "driver profiles" to operate.

ATI has already shown a pre-production motherboard that was apparently operating with two different video cards and won't require a link board between the video cards. All video coordination will take place through the PCI-E ports.

The graphics driver handles it no matter what chipset you throw at it...

ATIs implementation could and probably is different, but it will work the same way.

NVIDIA disabled SLI for certain games by taking them out of the profile for stability reasons until they can fix the bugs with the BRAND NEW FEATURE.

You can enable it manually, or you can play your no-name title that probably isnt graphically intensive anyway at 500fps instead of 1000. I seriously dont see any highly graphic intensive titles off of that list that single 6800U/GT wouldnt slaughter.

Ioo · Jan 19, 2005

Im sure there will be lots of 3rd party apps for creating profiles. Kinda like the Rage3D Tweak app for Radeons and so forth.

Rage187 · Jan 19, 2005

luckily some of us know how to work operate a computer.

Guess those notepad skills will finally come in handy.

Lonyo · Jan 19, 2005

The reason WHY not all games have a profile is because some games may not work.
When SLI first came about, I noticed this in the Anand review, and commented on it in various threads.
SLI will NOT always be active in all games, and there *may* be issues with *some* games.
That's why nVidia don't enable it for everything.
This also means that, while 2x6600GT may perform like 1x6800GT when the 6600GT's are in SLI, they may not always be in SLI, so the 6800GT is ALWAYS the better solution, because it's equal speed when 6600's are SLI, and much faster than the SLI won't work.

zakee00 · Jan 19, 2005

Wow, HardOCP made it sound like this was a huge deal...from what you guys say, its not at all...

This is the first time I've ever heard of this "issue".

sparkyclarky · Jan 19, 2005

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: Creig
Yes, that aspect of SLI definitely hasn't been given a lot of press. However, both VIA and ATI have motherboards coming out that support their own version of SLI. Hopefully one of these will be totally hardware based and won't require any special "driver profiles" to operate.

ATI has already shown a pre-production motherboard that was apparently operating with two different video cards and won't require a link board between the video cards. All video coordination will take place through the PCI-E ports.

Click to expand...

The graphics driver handles it no matter what chipset you throw at it...

ATIs implementation could and probably is different, but it will work the same way.

NVIDIA disabled SLI for certain games by taking them out of the profile for stability reasons until they can fix the bugs with the BRAND NEW FEATURE.

You can enable it manually, or you can play your no-name title that probably isnt graphically intensive anyway at 500fps instead of 1000. I seriously dont see any highly graphic intensive titles off of that list that single 6800U/GT wouldnt slaughter.

Rome: Total War is a system hog not on the list

BentValve · Jan 19, 2005

EQ2 is the only game that needs help on my system what a shame it cannot benefit from SLI.

zakee00 · Jan 19, 2005

Originally posted by: BentValve
EQ2 is the only game that needs help on my system what a shame it cannot benefit from SLI.

yeah, but Sony could have made the code better also.

BentValve · Jan 19, 2005

Originally posted by: zakee00

Originally posted by: BentValve
EQ2 is the only game that needs help on my system what a shame it cannot benefit from SLI.

Click to expand...

yeah, but Sony could have made the code better also.

yeah its pretty fvcked isn't it?

ohnnyj · Jan 19, 2005

Plus you have to figure that most people who are buying SLI will know how to change settings pretty easily.

IdaGno · Jan 19, 2005

Originally posted by: ohnnyj
Plus you have to figure that most people who are buying SLI will know how to change settings pretty easily.

Spin: It's not an issue! It's a feature!

ohnnyj · Jan 19, 2005

Originally posted by: IdaGno

Originally posted by: ohnnyj
Plus you have to figure that most people who are buying SLI will know how to change settings pretty easily.

Click to expand...

Spin: It's not an issue! It's a feature!

Extra tweaking for the die hard tweaker.

nRollo · Jan 19, 2005

No...te..pad????

Is that some kind of crazy programming language only propeller heads know?!?!?!?

Owwww my head hurts at prospect of editing the config file.......

zakee00 · Jan 19, 2005

Originally posted by: Rollo
No...te..pad????

Is that some kind of crazy programming language only propeller heads know?!?!?!?

Owwww my head hurts at prospect of editing the config file.......

<Remembers "bad old days" of computer gaming in DOS and DOS4GW>

heh. good that theres a fix, or else we would be at nvidia's mercy. :Q

nitromullet · Jan 19, 2005

I'm curious though.... If all you have to do is edit a config file and SLI works great on whatever game you choose, why wouldn't nVidia just include all games and let the user select between SFR and AFR? My guess is probably because it isn't quite that easy... I imagine that some games will work fine, and others will not.

btw... Those of you talking about editing the config file, what does one edit the file with? Not what app, but with what values? I mean say I want to play Rome - Total War, what do I add (or subtract) from the config file? Editing config files is easy, but knowing what to edit is the trick, just ask any Linux user!

Edit: ok. nevermind, I read the addendum to the article that explains what to do... nVidia could program a GUI to do that like they did for creating application specific profiles for the rest of the settings?

Shamrock · Jan 19, 2005

Beta drivers with SLI support.

http://www.nzone.com/object/nz...ds_winxp_2k_67.66.html

changleog:
* SLI cards: Half Life 2 performance drops on canals demo with SLI
enabled
* GeForce 6800 Ultra, SLI: No performance difference with the game
Lock On Modern Air Combat when SLI mode is enabled.
* GeForce 6800: Incorrect fog for underwater objects in Half Life 2.
* SLI cards: Shadows flicker with Source engine games like Half-Life 2
and Counterr-Strike when SLI mode is enabled.
* Windows XP Media Center Edition, GeForce 6600: Graphical
distortion appears intermittently when cycling through the Media
Center menus.
* Windows XP Media Center Edition, GeForce 6600: From HDTV
component-out, changing the resolution from 1080i or 720p to 480p
results in 480i being set instead.
* GeForce 6600 GT: NVIDIA Color Correction does not work when
playing video using VMR.
* GeForce 6800 LE, PCI-Express: With an HDTV as the secondary
display in Clone mode, the TV loses sync when changing the
resolution to 1080i with Keep Native HDTV resolution selected.
* Windows Media Center Edition, GeForce PCX 5300: When using
HDTV over DVI, 1080i mode does not sync correctly in native and
underscan modes.
* GeForce2, GeForce4 MX, Windows XP: City of Heroes crashes to the
desktop intermittently.

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