Im confused about how the SLI profiles are set up. I thought I understood how it worked but apparently not.
So here's the deal. The way I understood the SLI profile options to work is that if the "Global Driver Settings" profile is chosen then the settings in that profile will affect all other profiles. What I don't understand is when you choose a specific game profile, check boxes appear beside all the options. What I'm confused about is what those check boxes are for. Do you have to check the boxes in the individual profile so that those options will apply to the chosen game profile?
I am asking because today I started playing Far Cry on my new SLI rig. I jacked the resolution up to my monitors native resolution of 1920x1200, cranked all the settings up to ultra and high and went to playing. Inside the cavern at the beginning of the game I was getting good frame rates of 60+. However when I finally walked outside for the first time, my FPS dropped to the teens. I was bummed because I figured this machine would take this game with no problem.
Until now I have just set up the "global driver settings" profile and it was my understanding that all games would use those settings. This time though I actually chose the Far Cry profile and went down through and checked all the boxes beside the profile options. I started playing again and to my amazement, my FPS in Far Cry never got below 50 or so.
I read somewhere that the check boxes are for when you need to change a specific game setting from the "global driver settings" option. When you need to change a specific game setting from the "global driver settings" option, you are supposed to tick the check box, and change the setting. This makes the option change for only that game. This doesn't make sense to me, but that's what I read. It would seem to me that you wouldn't need any check boxes if this were the case. If the specific game profile is chosen then why should you have to use a check box to change the option? If the specific game profile is chosen, then you should be able to change the option and it only apply to that game profile because it's the only one chosen. I hope that makes sense. What I am getting at is that it seems to me that the check boxes are meant to ACTIVATE a specific option for a game. The "global driver settings" profile simply makes it easier to change ALL profiles to a specific setting with a single click and doesn't actually apply that setting to the game profiles. Unless the check box in a specific game profile is ticked, (Far Cry in this case), the setting won't effect the game.
So am I right or wrong? What exactly are the check boxes for? At first I thought the check boxes must be ticked to change a setting for a specific game profile but you can change the setting regardless of whether or not the check box is ticked.
I know this seems like a dumb question and I feel sort of dumb asking it but until about 2 weeks ago I had only ever owned ATI cards and never used the Forceware control panel. All this is new to me. All I know is that that when I manually chose the Far Cry profile and when down through there and ticked all the check boxes my FPS improved DRAMATICALLY.
Thanks for any info.
So here's the deal. The way I understood the SLI profile options to work is that if the "Global Driver Settings" profile is chosen then the settings in that profile will affect all other profiles. What I don't understand is when you choose a specific game profile, check boxes appear beside all the options. What I'm confused about is what those check boxes are for. Do you have to check the boxes in the individual profile so that those options will apply to the chosen game profile?
I am asking because today I started playing Far Cry on my new SLI rig. I jacked the resolution up to my monitors native resolution of 1920x1200, cranked all the settings up to ultra and high and went to playing. Inside the cavern at the beginning of the game I was getting good frame rates of 60+. However when I finally walked outside for the first time, my FPS dropped to the teens. I was bummed because I figured this machine would take this game with no problem.
Until now I have just set up the "global driver settings" profile and it was my understanding that all games would use those settings. This time though I actually chose the Far Cry profile and went down through and checked all the boxes beside the profile options. I started playing again and to my amazement, my FPS in Far Cry never got below 50 or so.
I read somewhere that the check boxes are for when you need to change a specific game setting from the "global driver settings" option. When you need to change a specific game setting from the "global driver settings" option, you are supposed to tick the check box, and change the setting. This makes the option change for only that game. This doesn't make sense to me, but that's what I read. It would seem to me that you wouldn't need any check boxes if this were the case. If the specific game profile is chosen then why should you have to use a check box to change the option? If the specific game profile is chosen, then you should be able to change the option and it only apply to that game profile because it's the only one chosen. I hope that makes sense. What I am getting at is that it seems to me that the check boxes are meant to ACTIVATE a specific option for a game. The "global driver settings" profile simply makes it easier to change ALL profiles to a specific setting with a single click and doesn't actually apply that setting to the game profiles. Unless the check box in a specific game profile is ticked, (Far Cry in this case), the setting won't effect the game.
So am I right or wrong? What exactly are the check boxes for? At first I thought the check boxes must be ticked to change a setting for a specific game profile but you can change the setting regardless of whether or not the check box is ticked.
I know this seems like a dumb question and I feel sort of dumb asking it but until about 2 weeks ago I had only ever owned ATI cards and never used the Forceware control panel. All this is new to me. All I know is that that when I manually chose the Far Cry profile and when down through there and ticked all the check boxes my FPS improved DRAMATICALLY.
Thanks for any info.
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